Rethinking the critical paradigm of capitalism in the bet365 score era
December 28, 2021 09:10 Source: "Chinese bet365 score" Issue 2318, December 28, 2021 Author: Li Ruide

The rapid development and widespread application of new generation bet365 score technology,Greatly promoted the digitalization process of contemporary capitalism。This economic and social change caused by the bet365 score technology system,Causing widespread attention in academic circles。Western academic circles have begun to pay attention to the bet365 score transformation of capitalism since the 1990s,But there is no consensus on its role and trend yet。Overview of existing research,We can summarize Western scholars’ criticism of capitalism in the bet365 score age into four paradigms,i.e. bet365 score capitalism、Platform Capitalism、Surveillance Capitalism、bet365 score imperialism。Combining and reflecting on these four paradigms,It helps us gain insight into the essential characteristics and development trends of capitalism in the bet365 score era。

Since the 1990s,With the rise of the Internet and its marketization,bet365 score technology has an increasingly broad and profound impact on capitalist production and lifestyle。Nicholas Negroponte paid early attention to the impact of bet365 score technology on people’s lives and work,Dan Schiller formally proposed the concept of "bet365 score capitalism" in 1999。In the process,Some Western scholars believe that,bet365 score technologies can transcend capitalism’s old structural inequalities,Triggering a revolution in resource sharing and co-creation,Even asserted that bet365 score technology will create "frictionless capitalism"。To this,Many Western left-wing scholars from a critical perspective,Propose bet365 score labor、bet365 score Capital、A series of new areas such as platform resources,An illuminating exploration of exploitation and inequality in bet365 score capitalism。Compared to traditional capitalism,What new characteristics does bet365 score capitalism present?First,Driving by bet365 score technology, the boundaries between production and consumption are increasingly blurred,Capital’s exploitation of labor is more secretive。Scholars such as Christian Fox define Internet product users as “productive consumers”,Think of them as consumers,At the same time, by sharing works、Vote、Online participation methods such as evaluation,Provide unpaid labor for Internet companies,And this kind of free "free" labor can easily obscure the unequal relationship between capital and labor。Secondly,With big data、Extensive application of cloud computing and other technologies,Data becomes the core element of capitalist production。The massive data generated by bet365 score life,Transformed into effective “trading decisions” driven by algorithmic technology,Data has become a commodity coveted by capital。Last,bet365 score technology not only shapes the production organization form of contemporary capitalism,And it profoundly affects people’s way of living and thinking。bet365 score era,bet365 score technology has become a set of rules that dominate life、Manipulate emotions、The invisible mechanism that reshapes thinking,Number Fetishism、The rise of dataism,A new alienated form is born。

Platform capitalism is the result of the development and deepening of bet365 score capitalism。Enter the 21st century,bet365 score platform as a new business model,Become a developed capitalist country and get rid of the downturn in the production field、An important choice to maintain the vitality of economic growth。Nick Srnicek thinks,Platform, a form of enterprise organization based on the bet365 score ecosystem, has expanded to the entire capitalist economic system,And put forward the concept of “platform capitalism” from the perspective of the dominant economic organization form。P.D.Culpepper and K.Tren further divided three broad types of platforms based on Srnicek: information platform,Like Google、Facebook;Service Platform,Like Uber、Airbnb;Commodity Platform,such as Amazon。Critical research on platform capitalism in foreign academic circles mainly focuses on platform monopoly、Three aspects of platform manipulation and platform exploitation。First,Monopoly is the inherent gene of the platform。Under the influence of network effects,The more platform users there are,The greater its value;The more data the platform occupies,The more accurate predictions and services we can provide。The iron law of winner-take-all drives platform capital to turn itself into a monopoly organization,To stay ahead of the curve with your data and users。Secondly,Users are in a controlled position in the monopoly platform。As platforms control big data and bet365 score infrastructure,User regardless of being a merchant、Consumer、Labor,Still access the platform as a social identity,All are inevitably monitored by network platforms、Manipulation and induction。Last,The platform greatly improves the currency turnover speed of commodities,It also created a large industrial reserve army,Making cheap labor readily available。The decomposition and reorganization of labor by the bet365 score technology system,Enables platform companies to easily use piece-rate payment、"Crowdsourcing" and other methods to reduce labor costs。Platform economy promotes employment instability,Having given birth to new forms such as “cloud labor” and “servant economy”,The actual subordination of labor to capital further deepens。

With the rise of platform economy,Predict and adjust user behavior by monitoring user data,has become "the main source of profit for many of the most successful companies in the 21st century"。Shoshana Zuboff was the first to propose and use the concept of “surveillance capitalism”,And published the book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" in 2019。Zubov thinks,Surveillance capitalism uses human experience as free raw material,With wealth、Concentration of knowledge and power is a symbol,With the deprivation of key human rights、For the purpose of creating a new collective order,It is an emerging economic model based on parasitic economic logic。Surveillance capitalism uses user privacy and information resources as means of production for free,Use living people as a tool for capital to make money,Through the operating mechanism of "mass data extraction - ubiquitous monitoring - extensive behavior modification - profit from behavior adjustment",Obscuring exploitation that is more bloody and violent than the era of industrial capitalism。In fact,Surveillance capitalism is destined not to be limited to the economic field from its embryonic stage。Viewed from Prism Gate and other leaks,Internet giants and the US military、There is a close cooperative relationship between the National Security Agency,Capitalist countries have actually built a public and private surveillance network system of "military-industrial-bet365 score complex" and "government-corporate surveillance complex"。Zhubov、Forster and others believe,The boom of surveillance capitalism,Severe threat to the free market order and social democratic mechanism,This leads to an individual survival crisis。Wearable and other smart devices based on bet365 score technology can accurately grasp an individual’s physical and living conditions,Social media makes users develop pathological dependence,Information cocoon seriously erodes individuals’ right to free choice,These all threaten the deliberative democratic mechanism of the entire modern society。Therefore,Capitalism in the bet365 score age has not made the Internet the most extensive platform for democratic dialogue in history,It is about transforming the bet365 score world into a “private place” for capital proliferation。

 After the 1990s,Some scholars once believed that the research paradigm of imperialism was outdated。But entering the new century,With David Harvey、Ellen Wood and others’ interpretation of a new type of imperialism that is different from the past,The academic enthusiasm for research on imperialism has been ignited again,And "bet365 score imperialism" has become an important critical perspective。Fox and others believe,The new imperialism led by the United States is based on bet365 score technology,dominated by financial capital,Economic supremacy through dominance of core technologies and network processors。Although the purpose of bet365 score imperialism to plunder the world’s surplus value has not changed,But the implementation method shows new characteristics that are different from the past。Yuval Harari thinks,Data hegemony has a huge impact on the economy, society and the international political and economic pattern。The United States as a typical bet365 score imperialism,Long-term heavy investment in bet365 score infrastructure construction such as bet365 score platforms and databases,Export bet365 score goods and capital to the world through bet365 score oligarchy,And use this to carve up the global industrial chain。Some left-wing scholars have noticed,Knowledge monopoly has become a new means for bet365 score imperialism to plunder the world’s wealth。In the international industrial chain with hierarchical division of labor,Only at the top of the pyramid、Only monopolies who master core bet365 score technologies can have a say in profit distribution,Frontline workers in OEM factories in various countries suffer multiple exploitations,Most of the wealth created by them flows into the top knowledge enterprises of imperialism such as the United States。bet365 score imperialism monitors and plunders global bet365 score information,Severe threat to the political and cultural security of various countries。Especially in the United States, which often uses online democracy as an excuse to spread American values ​​through platform monopoly and artificial intelligence recommendations,Wantfully interfering in other countries’ internal affairs。Also,To maintain and strengthen bet365 score hegemony,bet365 score imperialism does not hesitate to use national power to initiate trade wars、Technology War,Suppress competitors。

Overall,The above four paradigms have theoretical highlights,But there are also critical blind spots。They provide in-depth insights into the new changes in capitalist production relations in the bet365 score era,For us to see through the bet365 score illusion of contemporary capitalism,Very inspiring。But,We should also see,Some scholars focus their criticism on bet365 score technology rather than the capitalist system itself,Essentially a kind of number fetishism;Although some scholars have touched upon the essence of capitalist production relations in their discussions,However, the proposed responses are limited to the capitalist framework,Thus avoiding the most promising path of resistance。Marx emphasized,Analysis of the capitalist economic form,Cannot use "microscope" or "chemical reagents",Must use "Abstract Power" instead。The secret of contemporary capitalist digitization lies not in bet365 score technology but in the “capitalist application” of technology,The new organizational form of reproduction cannot fundamentally get rid of the endogenous contradictions of capitalism,The liberating potential of bet365 score technology inevitably calls for a radical transformation of production relations,Make new technologies truly serve the common life of mankind and the all-round development of mankind。

 (This article is a phased result bet365 score National Social Science Fund general project “Research on the Innovative Development of Marx’s Theory of Labor Emancipation in the Artificial Intelligence Era” (21BKS098)

(Author’s unit: School of Marxism, Renmin University of China、School of Marxism, Fujian Normal University)

Editor: Zhang Jing
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