Document Type
Honors Thesis
Major
Political Science
Advisor(s)
Robert Ballingall
Committee Members
Robert Glover, Nathan Godfried, Joshua Jones
Graduation Year
May 2023
Publication Date
Spring 2023
Abstract
The United States in the present day has experienced a rise of both incredibly productive automated technologies, approaching self-perpetuation, and fascism, entering and affecting significant social institutions. This paper aims to explain these phenomenon with the Marxist mechanics of the historical dialectic, conceptions of abstraction and material, and the behavior of capital – among other modes of production – and predict the broader development that is oncoming. It has been found that the rise of advanced and self-perpetuating automating technologies is indicative of an oncoming mode of production, ‘high automation’, and that fascism itself is a character, or subdialectical stage, of capitalism, which periodically appear during transitions under capitalism. Therein a social revolution, or reconstruction, to high automation is oncoming.
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Copyright © Sean Staton, 2022 All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Staton, Sean C., "High Automation, Fascism, and Our Social Revolution" (2023). Honors College. 779.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/779
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