Book contents
- The Marx Revival
- The Marx Revival
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- 1 Capitalism
- 2 Communism
- 3 Democracy
- 4 Proletariat
- 5 Class Struggle
- 6 Political Organization
- 7 Revolution
- 8 Work
- 9 Capital and Temporality
- 10 Ecology
- 11 Gender Equality
- 12 Nationalism and Ethnicity
- 13 Migration
- 14 Colonialism
- 15 State
- 16 Globalization
- 17 War and International Relations
- 18 Religion
- 19 Education
- 20 Art
- 21 Technology and Science
- 22 Marxisms
- Index
- References
21 - Technology and Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 May 2020
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Book contents
- The Marx Revival
- The Marx Revival
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- 1 Capitalism
- 2 Communism
- 3 Democracy
- 4 Proletariat
- 5 Class Struggle
- 6 Political Organization
- 7 Revolution
- 8 Work
- 9 Capital and Temporality
- 10 Ecology
- 11 Gender Equality
- 12 Nationalism and Ethnicity
- 13 Migration
- 14 Colonialism
- 15 State
- 16 Globalization
- 17 War and International Relations
- 18 Religion
- 19 Education
- 20 Art
- 21 Technology and Science
- 22 Marxisms
- Index
- References
Summary
Karl Marx synthesized a new critical concept of technology. As with the legal and political norms purporting to be universal and neutral that Marx exposed as bourgeois, Marx also showed how technology was capitalist. In Capital, volume I, Marx argued that capitalism does not work to develop technology, in general; instead, it develops only those kinds of machines that abet its economic, social, and political interests. It even inhibits the development of technologies that do not. However, capitalism also claims that it is developing technology, in general, and so reigns in our ability to imagine non-capitalist technologies.
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- The Marx RevivalKey Concepts and New Critical Interpretations, pp. 363 - 375Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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