Automation

Robots and remote controls automate mining

May 14, 2012
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Within a few years you are going to be responsible for a fleet of trucks that are fully robotic.’ ” Meech emphasized that this transition isn’t about replacing people. Demand for mining engineers and skilled labour has skyrocketed and mining companies around the world anticipate a worker shortage. “I insist that my students do...

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How Computers Are Creating a Second Economy Without Workers

April 13, 2012
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… The Second Economy — a term the economist Brian Arthur uses to describe the computer-intensive portion of the economy — is, quite simply, the virtual economy. One of its main byproducts is the replacement of low-productivity workers with computers. It’s growing by leaps and bounds, brimming with optimistic entrepreneurs, and spawning a new...

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Are robots the future of the WA mining industry?

February 7, 2012
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Robots and remote controlled mines could be the solution to some of the biggest challenges facing Australian miners today, according to industry giant Rio Tinto. But innovation would likely only come after long runs of trial and error and at considerable cost to miners, according to a privately commissioned report. Rio Tinto's labour-intensive iron...

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Albert Einstein Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?
Socialism2012

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Are we living in the end times? (Slavoj Žižek)

What does it mean to be a revolutionary today? (Slavoj Žižek)

Things cannot go on the way they are (Slavoj Žižek)

A New Kind of Communism (Slavoj Žižek)

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Capital Volume 1 (David Harvey)

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Economic Crisis And Globalization-1 (Richard D. Wolff)

Economic Crisis And Globalization-2 (Richard D. Wolff)

Economic Crisis And Globalization-3 (Richard D. Wolff)

Economic Crisis And Globalization-4 (Richard D. Wolff)

Economic Crisis And Globalization-5 (Richard D. Wolff)

Economic Crisis And Globalization-6 (Richard D. Wolff)

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Intro to Marxian Economics – Session 1 (Richard D. Wolff)

Intro to Marxian Economics – Session 2 (Richard D. Wolff)

Intro to Marxian Economics – Session 3 (Richard D. Wolff)

Intro to Marxian Economics – Session 4 (Richard D. Wolff)

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The Communist Manifesto - Terry Eagleton - Marxism 2011

Why Marx Was Right - Terry Eagleton
Marxism -- Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
"We have always distinguished the social kernel from the political form of bourgeois democracy; we have always revealed the hard kernel of social inequality and lack of freedom hidden under the sweet shell of formal equality and freedom – not in order to reject the latter but to spur the working class into not being satisfied with the shell, but rather, by conquering political power, to create a socialist democracy to replace bourgeois democracy – not to eliminate democracy altogether."

"But socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land, after the foundations of socialist economy are created; it does not come as some sort of Christmas present for the worthy people who, in the interim, have loyally supported a handful of socialist dictators. Socialist democracy begins simultaneously with the beginnings of the destruction of class rule and of the construction of socialism. It begins at the very moment of the seizure of power by the socialist party. It is the same thing as the dictatorship of the proletariat. Yes, dictatorship! "

"But this dictatorship consists in the manner of applying democracy, not in its elimination, but in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of bourgeois society, without which a socialist transformation cannot be accomplished. But this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class – that is, it must proceed step by step out of the active participation of the masses; it must be under their direct influence, subjected to the control of complete public activity; it must arise out of the growing political training of the mass of the people."

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