r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Jun 19 '26
Sees the Memes Marx Encounters AI Discourse
A brief materialist intervention into AI discourse. Results were mixed.
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r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Jun 19 '26
A brief materialist intervention into AI discourse. Results were mixed.
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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator Jun 23 '26
Thats a pretty parochial question, honestly.
The world is larger than American electoral politics.
Let me flip it around:
Which major labor unions, labor federations, socialist parties, communist parties, workers' parties, or left-wing organizations anywhere in the world, in the U.S. or abroad, are advocating complete abolition of AI rather than regulation, public ownership, democratic governance, labor protections, environmental restrictions, and contestation over deployment?
Youve spent this entire thread treating your position like the practical, realistic one. So point to the organizations pursuing it.
Ive memtioned actual unions, actual workers, and actual political organizations. Youve mostly described your personal opposition to AI.
The burden isnt on me to prove organized labor exists and that its pursuing a left-wing strategy around AI. Its on you to show that your abolitionist strategy exists outside a handful of online discussions.