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Marxist Glossary - Expanded Edition: Twenty-first Century American Narrative Waistline

Publisher Marketing: Marxist Glossary Expanded Edition is two and a half times larger than Marxist Glossary mini edition. Expanded contains a bibliography with extensive source notes, many available on line. Class: (Excerpt) In one period of history the material form of the working class was based on hand work (handicraft). As means of production developed and evolved into more complex tools and machines, a manufacturing class of workers was created, based on the new means of production. The manufacturing workers and all the layers of society intertwined into the "determined system of social production" constituted the social organization of labor. The industrial revolution birthed the industrial working class as a new social organization of labor, replacing the manufacturing working class. The industrial working class is industrial because it deploys productive equipment created based on the technology of the industrial revolution. Today's electronics revolution, with its computers and robotics, birthed the electronic working class replacing the industrial working class. Electronics destroy labor in production, replacing human beings with machinery that duplicates the mental and physical powers of the human. Electronics also destroy marginal cost driving reproduction of things to zero for the individual. Under capitalism, the deployment of robotics shuts out billions of workers from the production process, consigns hundreds of million to life at the margin of bourgeois society and destroys industrialism in all forms. The growing mass of destitute proletarians is a new class and part of the new economy.