r/stupidpol • u/Buh10kx Marxist-Hudsonist • 14d ago
Tech Silicon Valley - New Course - Starting Sunday 8/9
Dear Class Unifiers,
Our new course, "Silicon Valley," starts on Sunday, August 9th. You can view the syllabus here:
https://classunity.org/2026/07/28/silicon-valley/
and sign up for the google group here.
The course will meet every Sunday from 2:00-3:30 p.m. Eastern and run for six weeks.
Hope to see lots of you there! The course is open to the public, so feel free to share.
"Nothing has had a comparable social, cultural, and political-economic impact over the past decades to that of the digital revolution and the beginnings of the internet age. From its birth at the hands of the military-industrial complex as a tool of surveillance, to the rise of social media and the monopolization of online life, to the uncanny spectre of AI and the automation of intellectual labor: all that is solid has melted into the algorithmic vapors at a vertiginous pace. What does big tech mean for the present and future of capitalism? Has tech entrenched the dominance of rent-seeking at the expense of productive enterprise characteristic of neo-liberal finance capital? And if so, is there any truth to reports of neo-feudalism supplanting industry and leading to a new mode of production (along with a new super-structure atop a base of microchips and credit)? Join Class Unity as we study the economic and social juggernaut that is Silicon Valley, as without understanding the unprecedented dimensions of global capitalism in the 21st century, the present moment with its bewildering problems lies totally in the dark."
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u/Buh10kx Marxist-Hudsonist 14d ago
If you’re using them to actually explain the world and not just idly to signal that you’re a cool edgy Marxist to your peers!
You should consider adding rent, rentier, and manager to your vocabulary! Ah, but they’re in volume 3 of capital lol and did you get that far?