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The Left Must Embrace the Radical Potential of Technology – Or Face Political Defeat
While mainstream thinking today seeks to separate questions of technology from politics, the left has a long history - from Marx onwards - of visionary thinking about the radical potential of technology. For the left to ignore this potential at our present moment of multiple crises would lay the foundation for political defeat, argues Aaron Bastani.