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The problem is not AI

Damien Walter
May 04, 2026
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The problem is AI under Capitalism

I keep saying it.

The problem is not AI, the problem is AI under Capitalism.

50 years of neoliberalism mean some basic lessons of labour have been forgotten. In volume I of Das Kapital, Marx makes a critique of the Luddites – that the workers who famously smashed the machines were confusing

the means of production with the…

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