Article Subjects and Geography: Internet

From Classic Labor to the Labor of the ‘General Intellect’: The Impact of the Digital Intelligence Era on Socialist Labor Theory

From Classic Labor to the Labor of the ‘General Intellect’: The Impact of the Digital Intelligence Era on Socialist Labor Theory

by Te Li

April 1, 2026

Applying Marxist labor theory to the rise of artificial intelligence and its effects on workers, Te Li presents an understanding of labor in the age of increasing reliance on algorithms and digital technologies. As Li argues: "In the civilization of general intellect labor, where the knowledge economy dominates, knowledge-intensive labor such as scientific research, technological innovation, artistic creation, and education and training will become primary forms of labor."
Robert W. McChesney (1952–2025): A Personal and Political-Intellectual Memoir

Robert W. McChesney (1952–2025): A Personal and Political-Intellectual Memoir

by John Bellamy Foster

December 1, 2025

John Bellamy Foster introduces our special issue celebrating the life and work of MR former coeditor and MR Press author Robert W. McChesney. In his recounting of over 50 years of close friendship and collaboration, Foster paints a portrait of McChesney as a visionary intellectual and activist whose work will reverberate through the communication field for decades to come.
A Democratic Socialist in Our Age

A Democratic Socialist in Our Age

by John Nichols

December 1, 2025

John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney's longtime collaborator and frequent coauthor, celebrates McChesney's near-clairvoyant thought and scholarship. Nichols notes that McChesney's impressive foresight enabled him to see the pitfalls of the digital age long before the Internet became a tool for the worst impulses of the elites under capitalism.
A Clarion Call for Communication Democracy

A Clarion Call for Communication Democracy

by Matthew Rothschild

December 1, 2025

Matthew Rothschild looks back on nearly 40 years working alongside his friend and colleague Robert W. McChesney. McChesney, he writes, brought to the world a sharp analysis of not only the contradiction between corporate media and democracy, but between the capitalist system as a whole and a true democracy that serves the people.
Capitalism in the Age of Digital Technology

Capitalism in the Age of Digital Technology

by Robert W. McChesney

December 1, 2025

In this transcript of a talk from 2015, Robert W. McChesney discusses the "great definitional communication revolutions" that have shaped humanity's trajectory. Even a decade ago, McChesney was able to see the fraught relationship between new technology and democracy, the re-emergence of fascism, and the political dangers of the Digital Age.
The Social Dialectics of AI

The Social Dialectics of AI

by Pietro Daniel Omodeo

November 1, 2024

In this deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence, Pietro Daniel Omodeo employs the frameworks laid out in Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master to weave a sociological history of AI that begins with the class struggles of the Industrial Revolution and continues into the context of early twentieth-century computing, which eventually gave rise our current Information Age. "AI," he concludes, "sheds light onto the intellectual component of labor in all ages."

The Telecom Industry in India: Free Market or Monopoly-Finance Capital?

The Telecom Industry in India: Free Market or Monopoly-Finance Capital?

by Rahul Varman

May 1, 2023

The success of the telecommunications industry in India has been heralded as a "miracle." But a miracle for whom? The answer, Rahul Varman writes, has clearly been the capitalist class, who, over three decades, have amassed tremendous wealth and power through the machinations of large firms, in collusion with the Indian government.

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