(1) Marxists are pro-centralization, not decentralization. We’re not anarchists/libertarians. This is good for us as it lays the foundations for socialist society, while also increasing the contradictions within capitalist society, bringing the socialist revolution closer to fruition.
OP is not advocating for decentralization, this is a misrepresentation of their point. My understanding is that he was talking about how decentralized social media also ends up centralized, and provided examples of that. I don’t think this point has much to do with AI, tho.
(2) Much of your discussion just regards how AI is turning artists into an “extension of the machine” and further alienating their labor. But, like, that’s already true for most workers. Petty bourgeois artists will have to fall to the low, low place of the common working man… gasp! The reality is that it is good for us, because a lot of these petty bourgeois artists, precisely because they are “self-made” and not as alienated from their labor as regular workers, tend to have more positive views of property right laws. If more of them become “extensions of the machine” like every proles, then their interests will become more materially aligned with the proles. They would stop seeing art as a superior kind of labor that makes them better and more important than other workers, but would see themselves as equal with the working class and having interests aligned with them.
This is a completely US/Euro-centric view of what artists are and it’s fucked up to say. We should not be celebrating more workers getting the short end of the stick, we should be showing them solidarity and showing them the way to organization. Antagonizing them just because you think they are petite-bourgeois is completely counterproductive. Most artists are either just making ends meet or working for big companies like every other worker, only a rather small minority of artists would fit the petty-bourgeois label.
(4) Clearly, for the proletariat, we “full proletarianization of the arts” is by definition a good thing for the proletarian movement.
This doesn’t mean they will suddenly develop class consciousness. They were never a part of the bourgeoisie to begin with, and therefore our interests were already aligned.
OP is not advocating for decentralization, this is a misrepresentation of their point. My understanding is that he was talking about how decentralized social media also ends up centralized, and provided examples of that. I don’t think this point has much to do with AI, tho.
This is a completely US/Euro-centric view of what artists are and it’s fucked up to say. We should not be celebrating more workers getting the short end of the stick, we should be showing them solidarity and showing them the way to organization. Antagonizing them just because you think they are petite-bourgeois is completely counterproductive. Most artists are either just making ends meet or working for big companies like every other worker, only a rather small minority of artists would fit the petty-bourgeois label.
This doesn’t mean they will suddenly develop class consciousness. They were never a part of the bourgeoisie to begin with, and therefore our interests were already aligned.