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[OPE-L] fully automated economy and capitalism



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>. Firms are abstract
> juridical subjects able to buy and exchange commodities one
> with another. As such firms could in principle be entirely
> automated, and could appropriate their own profit. One
> can envisage a science fiction world run entirely by robots
> in which private property relations persist and capitalist
> firms are run by management computers.
 
 
Hi Paul C:
 
Yes, it is possible - as an exercise in  science fiction - to
envision a fully automated economy where robots produce
robots.  Without *capitalist social relations of production*
- and that includes wage-labour - then it would not be a
*capitalist* social formation. 
 
In solidarity, Jerry


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