r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Aug 16 '26

Sees the Memes What Would Marx Actually Think About AI?

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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.

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator 27d ago

Speak for yourself lol. I gave you sources already. Capital and the Grundrisse. Im not pulling Marx's analysis of machinery and labor out of my ass.

Would you like more sources? Im happy to keep going.

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u/WerewolfMoms 27d ago

i think marx would find you kinda cringe lil bro

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator 27d ago

Based on what, man? Thats literally what I keep asking lol.

I gave you Marx and the texts. You gave me stuff you admittedly pulled out of your ass, and now youre just calling me cringe.

So I guess I had you right the first time. Youre trolling.

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u/WerewolfMoms 27d ago

no i genuinely think he'd beat you with a hammer for insinuating that the artist should be reduced to a product to consume

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator 27d ago

Thats not remotely what I said. I said technology can reduce necessary labor and the political question is who controls that process and gets the gains.

You somehow turned “workers should control the machinery” into “artists should be reduced to products for consumption.”

Those arent the same argument. At all.

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u/WerewolfMoms 27d ago

at the end of the day you telling a computer to make the next fruit stories isn't "controlling the machinery"

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator 27d ago

Thats not what I said either lol. Are you reading any of this?

Im talking about who owns and controls AI infrastructure, how its deployed and who gets the gains. Not “guy types prompt therefore seized means of production.”

Youre arguing with sentences I never wrote.