Karl Marx lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit darauf, dass in der neuesten preußischen Zensurinstruktion als charakteristische Besonderheit der Untersuchung der Wahrheit vorgeschlagen wurde, die Bescheidenheit zu nehmen, und schrieb darüber in seinem ersten publizierten Aufsatz "Bemerkungen über die preußischen Zensurinstruktionen": "Die Wahrheit ist so wenig bescheiden als das Licht, und gegen wen sollte sie es sein? Gegen sich selbst? Verum index sui et falsi. Also gegen die Unwahrheit?"
Jared Diamond: "Faktorerna bakom ett samhälles förmåga eller oförmåga att upptäcka och lösa sina problem kan grupperas i fem kategorier: mänsklig påverkan på nödvändiga resurser, extern klimatförändring, relationer med vänliga samhällen, relationer med fi
Bo I. Cavefors (understreckare i SvD 1989) I Sverige publiceras sällan intressanta krigshistoriska och krigsteoretiska studier, men en sådan undantagsbok är Europas krig. Militärt tänkande, strategi och politik från Napoleontiden till andra världskrigets slut (Tidens förlag, Stockholm 1989) av Alf W. Johansson, docent vid Stockholms universitet och tillika medarbetare vid Militärhögskolan.
Paul Mason i Guardian, bygger på Grundrisse. Hans bok: Postcapitalism is published by Allen Lane on 30 July.
"Postcapitalism is possible because of three major changes information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. First, it has reduced the need for work, blurred the edges between work and free time and loosened the relationship between work and wages. The coming wave of automation, currently stalled because our social infrastructure cannot bear the consequences, will hugely diminish the amount of work needed – not just to subsist but to provide a decent life for all."
"By creating millions of networked people, financially exploited but with the whole of human intelligence one thumb-swipe away, info-capitalism has created a new agent of change in history: the educated and connected human being."
"The study, conducted by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), finds that from 2000 to 2014, American workers’ total productivity increased 21.6 percent, while the median worker’s compensation, including pay and benefits, rose just 1.8 percent.
The new data continue a trend that goes back decades. From 1973 to 2014, "American worker productivity increased 72.2 percent while median worker compensation rose just 8.7 percent. From 1948 to 1973, by contrast, typical worker compensation and productivity grew at roughly the same rate.
Alexander Bogdanov was a non-Leninist Bolshevik who also wrote science-fiction.
The terms “Bolshevism” and “Leninism” are usually treated as synonyms. In view of Lenin’s enormous influence over the Bolshevik party, that might seem fair enough. But in fact Lenin did have political and intellectual rivals inside his own party. The most important of these non-Leninist Bolsheviks was Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928).
UN study: Automation stands to reduce opportunities for low-wage workers in North America, the report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development states. But the types of jobs most likely to be eliminated entirely are more prevalent in developing nations. That’s because those same jobs, in sectors like farming and manufacturing, have already mostly dried up in wealthier nations as corporations have moved their operations abroad, in search of higher profits through lower wage costs.
by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, November 2017 (Volume 69, Number 6) , From an ecological perspective, the Anthropocene marks the need for a more creative, constructive, and coevolutionary relation to the earth. In ecosocialist
"Shoshona (sic!) Zuboff frets that use of this surplus data is potentially destructive to people at personal, familial, and societal levels. And she has a point. De facto monopolies with overwhelming network effects can manipulate people into making unnecessary purchases or poor decisions that benefit large corporations (or governments)." But:
"As the age of customer experience takes hold, enterprises must do far more than collect and analyze customer data to enable the improvement of their products, services, and engagements. They must also tap the so-called behavioral surplus."
"The CX can be great, for example, when an insurance company tracks a driver. The company may use periodic or real-time summaries (objective or gamified) of vehicle data to reward drivers with reduced rates or other goodies for driving safely and efficiently (e.g., braking slowly, cornering gently, and accelerating evenly). For both the driver and the company, this saves money. The insurer will have fewer claims and reduced churn; the driver pays less for insurance and has fewer accidents. "