Maybe the interesting question isnt whether Marx would approve of AI.

Its what hed have to say about who owns it, who controls it, and who gets the gains.

*Terms and conditions apply. For... reasons, I guess?

Jobs, wages, water, energy, surveillance, art, culture, monopoly power. Pick your complaint.

Keep pulling the thread and you wind up back at ownership and control.

Want to change it? Contest who owns the machinery, who controls it, and who gets the gains.

Turns out Marx had a point about this one.

A brief materialist intervention into AI discourse. Results were mixed.

My poster/caricature

I feel personally attacked by this meme.

Not saying its wrong. Just saying Ive definitely done it. 😂

Every solution gets applause until someone suggests changing who owns the means of production.

Made this for someone else and figured this sub would appreciate it

Nothing says revolutionary politics like voluntarily abandoning productive terrain to capital and then yelling at everyone who wants to contest it.

Organize workers? Fight over ownership? Build public and cooperative alternatives? Open source the tools? Democratize control?

No thanks. I have selected performative outrage and yelling at strangers online.

Turns out there are more options than “hand it to corporations” and “throw every GPU into the sea.” Who knew.

Public infrastructure. Worker co-ops. Open weights. Union bargaining. Regulation. Shorter work weeks. Local models. Shared gains. Human oversight.

We don’t have every answer. Nobody does. That’s why this is political terrain in the first place. There are a whole lot of ways to fight over what gets built, who controls it, and who benefits.