Technology and postcapitalism: a critical appraisal of antiwork, full automation reveries

Abstract

Abstract This paper challenges antiwork techno-utopias praising the supposedly liberating potential of capital productive forces and advocating for an accelerated expansion of labour-saving technologies before implementing a postcapitalist world built upon such technological development. The premises of those technoreveries are thus inspected along with the dangers and limitations of their implementation. Marx's view of productive forces is also examined, and some reflections are offered on the fettering thesis and the socialist goal of human enhancement.