The Property Question
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#WSWS #SEP #ICFI The inescapable and momentous responsibility that history imposes on the international working class is the forcible expropriation of capitalist private property and the establishment of a worldwide planned economy.
3/ What is needed is the expropriation of the corporations that own this technology—the AI companies, the cloud providers, the chipmakers and the major online platforms. They must be transferred into social ownership and placed under the democratic control of the working class."
August 28, 2026 at 12:45 AM
3/ What is needed is the expropriation of the corporations that own this technology—the AI companies, the cloud providers, the chipmakers and the major online platforms. They must be transferred into social ownership and placed under the democratic control of the working class."
2/ labor and knowledge of the whole of humanity, one that could ease everyone’s work and help solve the most pressing problems, is controlled by a tiny financial oligarchy and deployed to destroy millions of jobs, generate target lists for bombing raids and build up an apparatus of repression.
August 28, 2026 at 12:40 AM
2/ labor and knowledge of the whole of humanity, one that could ease everyone’s work and help solve the most pressing problems, is controlled by a tiny financial oligarchy and deployed to destroy millions of jobs, generate target lists for bombing raids and build up an apparatus of repression.
4/ capitalist resolution of the crisis of overproduction and overaccumulation: the physical destruction of capital, the seizure of resources and markets, and the disciplining of the working class under conditions of national emergency." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
An assessment of the decade of socialist revolution and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to Aug...
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August 14, 2026 at 3:49 AM
4/ capitalist resolution of the crisis of overproduction and overaccumulation: the physical destruction of capital, the seizure of resources and markets, and the disciplining of the working class under conditions of national emergency." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
3/ the rate of profit to fall, and production founded on exchange value breaks down. Under capitalist ownership, AI technology has become the vehicle of a speculative bubble. Under these conditions, the capitalist class turns to war as its answer to the economic crisis. War is the classical
August 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
3/ the rate of profit to fall, and production founded on exchange value breaks down. Under capitalist ownership, AI technology has become the vehicle of a speculative bubble. Under these conditions, the capitalist class turns to war as its answer to the economic crisis. War is the classical
2/ and the profit system based on private ownership. Artificial (augmented) intelligence, by expelling living labor--the sole source of surplus value [profit]--from the productive process, objectively undermines the entire value system upon which capitalism is based. It accelerates the tendency of
August 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
2/ and the profit system based on private ownership. Artificial (augmented) intelligence, by expelling living labor--the sole source of surplus value [profit]--from the productive process, objectively undermines the entire value system upon which capitalism is based. It accelerates the tendency of
2/ That oligarchy must be expropriated, its control over sport, culture, media and every social institution broken, and replaced by the democratic control of working people internationally. -- Andrea Lobo, WSWS
July 25, 2026 at 4:34 AM
2/ That oligarchy must be expropriated, its control over sport, culture, media and every social institution broken, and replaced by the democratic control of working people internationally. -- Andrea Lobo, WSWS
4/ 'As public infrastructure, AI would facilitate the rational and democratic planning of production on a global scale, directed to human need rather than private profit. Productive forces created by globally integrated labor have outgrown private ownership and the nation-state system alike.'
July 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
4/ 'As public infrastructure, AI would facilitate the rational and democratic planning of production on a global scale, directed to human need rather than private profit. Productive forces created by globally integrated labor have outgrown private ownership and the nation-state system alike.'
3/ 'What terrifies the AI oligarchs is that artificial intelligence will slip the leash of private ownership and become what it is already in essence: a social product, created from the knowledge, language, and labor of all mankind, and belonging by right to all mankind.'
July 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
3/ 'What terrifies the AI oligarchs is that artificial intelligence will slip the leash of private ownership and become what it is already in essence: a social product, created from the knowledge, language, and labor of all mankind, and belonging by right to all mankind.'
2/ in which artificial intelligence would cease to be “a market product” and become instead a “public good” provided by the state, a prospect he denounced as a “dystopian hellscape.”'
July 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
2/ in which artificial intelligence would cease to be “a market product” and become instead a “public good” provided by the state, a prospect he denounced as a “dystopian hellscape.”'
3/ "Slavery, colonialism and racial oppression have played a major role in American history. But they cannot be understood apart from [private] property, labor, class power, imperialism and the state."
June 27, 2026 at 2:15 AM
3/ "Slavery, colonialism and racial oppression have played a major role in American history. But they cannot be understood apart from [private] property, labor, class power, imperialism and the state."
2/ "The American Civil War was the most thorough bourgeois democratic revolution in history, it created the conditions for the explosive development of capitalism and the emergence of the United States as the dominant world power, and a massive working class and a history of violent class conflict."
June 27, 2026 at 2:08 AM
2/ "The American Civil War was the most thorough bourgeois democratic revolution in history, it created the conditions for the explosive development of capitalism and the emergence of the United States as the dominant world power, and a massive working class and a history of violent class conflict."
3/ "What stands between the working class and a future in which technology serves human development rather than destroys livelihoods is not a technical problem but a social and political one: the private ownership of the means of production. That is what must be overcome."
May 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
3/ "What stands between the working class and a future in which technology serves human development rather than destroys livelihoods is not a technical problem but a social and political one: the private ownership of the means of production. That is what must be overcome."
2/ "The potential of this technology can never be realized under capitalism, [which] must restrict, distort and weaponize it to survive. A progressive response to this offensive is possible only through a frontal assault by the working class on the unchallenged 'right' of capitalist property."
May 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
2/ "The potential of this technology can never be realized under capitalism, [which] must restrict, distort and weaponize it to survive. A progressive response to this offensive is possible only through a frontal assault by the working class on the unchallenged 'right' of capitalist property."