GS English: On some recent advances in the competition of capitalists: Digitizing the circuit of capital
Von webmaster • Okt. 28th, 2024 • Kategorie: InternationalGS English: On some recent advances in the competition of capitalists: Digitizing the circuit of capital
[Translated from Gegenstandpunkt: Politische Vierteljahreszeitschrift 3-2019, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich]
A few years ago, capitalism was reinvented in California’s Silicon Valley. China has been following suit and can now show a thing or two about the “artificial intelligence” business. So as not to be left behind by this epochal progress, Berlin’s politicians are vigorously trying to “digitize the economy.”
How this is actually advancing capitalist competition is easily overlooked. The advances specifically involve:
– the merchant trade,
– the process of productive value creation,
– the capital advance,
– the extent and nature of wage labor.
I. C′—M′: The link between capital and end user
1. Facebook and the like: Perfecting marketing to the customer
2. Google: The global shopwindow
3. Amazon: From resourceful bookseller to ubiquitous mail-order company, setting all kinds of examples
4. Apple: Bourgeois existence in a mobile terminal
II. The costs of capital’s regime over production
1. Capitalist quality control
2. The value-creation network crossing the boundaries between firms, industries, and nations, and its contradiction
3. The faux frais (incidental expenses) of running society, or: The smart nation
4. Private consumption as the last act in the capitalist production process
III. The capital advance and its yield
1. The state’s preparatory efforts: protecting intellectual property and creating a whole lot of infrastructure
2. Assisting in the birth: speculative bubbles
IV. v: The use of the labor factor
1. The ideal of a factory without workers, and the reality of saving labor costs
– A brief digression on the hot question of whether capitalism is not about to start functioning completely automatically
2. Smart workforces and an internationally networked working class
https://en.gegenstandpunkt.com/article/digitizing-circuit-capital
„Zu einigen neueren Fortschritten in der Konkurrenz der Kapitalisten: Die Digitalisierung des Kapitalkreislaufs“ (GS 3-19)
Vor ein paar Jahren ist im „Silicon Valley“ in Kalifornien der Kapitalismus neu erfunden worden. Das macht die VR China seither nach und im Geschäft mit der „künstlichen Intelligenz“ mittlerweile einiges vor. Um von diesem epochalen Fortschritt nicht abgehängt zu werden, betreibt die Berliner Politik mit großem Nachdruck die „Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft“.
Die paar sachlichen Fortschritte in der kapitalistischen Konkurrenz, um die es tatsächlich geht, werden dabei leicht übersehen.
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/artikel/digitalisierung-kapitalkreislaufs
