Letter: More on AI, Capitalist Crisis, and Communist Class Struggle
Thank you for the helpful, eye-opening article about artificial intelligence (AI).
As it explains, bosses will use AI technology to lay off millions of workers worldwide in many industries and professions. This means growing mass unemployment, and greater poverty. Workers won’t be able to buy the many products AI generates.
The rulers’ politicians and union leaders push passivity and tell workers nothing can be done in the face of technology’s progress. They warn that AI is also being used to make the rulers more effective at spying on the masses to attack workers in motion against them worldwide.
Masses of workers around the world won’t take this attack lying down. They will be forced into the streets to fight for food and survival. These workers have great revolutionary potential. ICWP can grow and recruit many angry workers to become communist fighters to get rid of capitalism and its wage slavery. They can lead communist class struggles to build for communist revolution. In place of capitalism, we will build communism, where there will be plenty of useful vital work for all: to meet everyone’s’ needs.
The fight over which version of AI will dominate the market is intensifying the sharpening struggle between US and Chinese imperialists. It will bring a full World War sooner. AI will help these imperialist butchers produce even more lethal, destructive weapons.
During the capitalist crisis of the Great Depression of the 1930’s, hundreds of millions were unemployed worldwide. In the US, 50% of the workforce, 17 million workers, were unemployed.
The US Communist Party had tens of thousands of members and influenced millions of industrial workers. Their response to the Depression was to mobilize to build soup kitchens and unemployment councils demanding unemployment insurance and social security. They won these demands, but did not mobilize the masses for revolution. Capitalism was left intact.
Today, the bosses’ use of AI technology is accelerating the capitalist crisis. Workers fighting layoffs and unemployment today need communist ideas and communist class struggle to win the fight for communism. The rulers’ spying can’t and won’t stop the masses. The rulers will still depend on workers to make their weapons, and soldiers to use them. Those workers and soldiers can become fighters for communism.
Learning from history, ICWP calls on Red Flag readers to join us to organize employed and unemployed workers to fight – not for social security or unemployment benefits like US Communist Party did – but for communism. Communism will have no unemployment or wage slavery. Everyone will be welcome everywhere to help produce whatever our class needs, and everyone’s needs will be met!
AI won’t tell workers that only communism will end this capitalist nightmare. But ICWP is doing that.
When the masses destroy capitalism and run society, they will collectively design and use AI and all technology in all areas of human activity to help make workers’ lives and the earth safe and healthy for all. It will never again be used for profit, exploitation, or genocide.
—A Comrade