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Technical Expertise and Communist Production
On the character of technical expertise developed in “high mix low volume” vs “low mix high volume” manufacturing operations. I chart out what this means for communism as both a political movement and an eventual productive state of affairs.
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Inside vs. Outside: The Proletarian Composition Problem
Communism is not the restructuring of capitalism’s distribution of goods, but a complete overhaul of how and why they are produced in the first place. This tendency of capital towards deindustrialized workforces reduces the proportion of workers that are positioned to enact this fundamental productive transformation in a revolutionary situation. This is one of the central problematics of modern communism: the…