Digitalization’s Real Revolution: Intensifying Knowledge-Labor, Not Ending Capitalism

Recent commentary suggesting that the introduction of digital technologies and the consequent prevalence of “immaterial labor” have rendered Karl Marx’s labor theory of value obsolete, thereby signaling the end of capitalism, is critically challenged in a new academic article by Siyaves Azeri. In his work, “Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge,” Azeri argues that … Continue reading Digitalization’s Real Revolution: Intensifying Knowledge-Labor, Not Ending Capitalism