https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/10/why-machines-dont-create-value/

For anyone who hasn’t read this article, I think it brings together most of the important points to consider when discussing automation from a Marxist perspective.

To have some revolutionary potential, you need to see the injustice in the world. You don’t have to directly experience this injustice to see it, which is why John Brown is such a cool motherfucker.

At the other end of the “change” spectrum, the royal family in the UK do some charity work to “change” things. Maybe they do believe that people shouldn’t starve, but system change is against their material interests.