the idea that we're going to collectively sit down and think everything through before we do it is naive - we'd need to be gods for that. or maybe bees. we're going to act before we think. the thinkers are left with a responsibility to devise ways to minimize the damage from this. i think that this was closer to what marx was trying to get across, this idea that philosophers need to get out in front of the mob and try and have some influence over it before they start pitchforking each other. which, was actually somewhat of an obvious observation, coming out of the french revolution and failed revolts of the nineteenth century. lots of angry people. no coherent thought. and, isn't that actually the same problem we face today?

faced with this inevitability of people running amok one way or another, there's no other real answer. marx was just being logical. this is smelly, utopian-type thinking.

and, i think this is why marx' economic determinism is so attractive, despite being determinism. the robots are almost here, and they promise a master/slave relationship without a victim.

it's the last thing a disillusioned post-marxist wants to hear in 2015. especially from an empirical driven anarchist. but wait for it.