Robots in Japan

[ACE]

Ok I told you it was comming it's not science fiction any longer, Robot labor is REAL and is coming on line in Japan.  Do you beleave this will effect the position of labor internationally because as predicted robots can now replace many sectors of the labor market.  In effect Robots could be the ultimate Scab workforce around the world, and we all know how Scab labor has been used to suppress the working class in the past.  I need to hear some feedback on how these events can be challenge or turned to the advantage of Communism.  Something HAS to be done Agreed?

[Dasher]

This will not affect things.  Robots cant buy back the goods 'they' produce because they do not get paid.  The market eventually equalises when all the corporations catch up when they all use robots.  The important point is that when pay is cut, by using robots, then they cut spending also.

Under capitalism, modern technology is used to squeeze more surplus value from each worker whereas under a plan of production, technology will reduce the toil, allowing workers time to run industry and the state.  

The choice is between capitalist anarchy or a Socialist plan of production.

[ACE]

Well there you have it.  A robot work force under capitalism means Free scab labor while under communism it will mean simply greater surplus for all to share in under collective ownership of the means of production rather then a system where all wealth is controlled by a tiny segment of the population that uses it position to oppress and enslave the whole of the working classes.

[Empiricist]

robot has always been working under Capitalism since the industrial revolution and Fordism.

DUH

[socialism]

All of us must move quickly and decisively to rid the capitalists of this technology,
I propose that we all take a pact to try to gain the schematics of this tech for the greater good of Socialism and Communism.
without it, we will loose this economic battle.

[HelenJames]

I think this topic was already mentioned at this forum