Why specificially transhumanism? Scientific Advancement can come from unexpected place

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I’m particularly excited that progress is made in the field of computer tech which will, hopefully, eventually be made completely of biological compounds which will make it far easier to merge with technology.

I agree that the human form is not sacred.

It’s flawed on many levels.

I read is historical materialism that "Social progress is driven by progress in the material, productive forces a society has at its disposal"

Productive forces including technology

Indeed, most can be automated, performed by machines.

In the USA, for example, there is already a law firm that wants to handle many lawyer’s tasks by bots which will reduce the costs tremendously.

It stands to reason that the more humans are like technology, the faster the social progress.

Also, the case of the AI working together who have created an own computer language to facilitate communication amongst them.

Capitalism hols us back because people must be kept worrying about how to survive everyday.

@Tenta he likes the idea of stressing people.

Yes, because under capitalism society has less productive forces overall, as they are collected by the ruling class only.

@Firefly , whom do you mean?

@Tenta your new fascist friend.

That is? Maybe I’m a bit slow now. I don’t feel stressed right now.

Fast transformation can be stressful.

See

I like fast. It was predetermined.

And why should I feel stressed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyO_-oDtvGU German song praising Lenin as the great moderniser of technology and society.

Wow, that’s a cute version, and even with an English translation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZJXI-IQS4

When the Quantitative change is predictable, Qualitative change is stressful. If you don't think it is, then the Quality isn't changing enough.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

The 'you' of yesterday is not the 'you' of today or tomorrow.

@Tenta What do you think? Should change come faster or slower, or it doesn't matter?

Right now, nearly every advance is exploited under capitalism and poses new hardships on people.

"the process of development from the lower to the higher takes place not as a harmonious unfolding of phenomena, but ...as a "struggle" of opposite tendencies which operate on the basis of these contradictions."

Wew

It is interesting the use of 'lower' and 'higher' development. Does lower always move into higher?

@Tenta And then "When a given style of production relations no longer supports further progress in the productive forces, either further progress is strangled, or 'revolution' must occur."?

Stagnation or revolution.

Does anyone know if 'Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism'
by Otto Kuusinen is avaliable to read online?

Is it Party-approved material?

"Hence, the transition from capitalism to socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by reforms, but only by a qualitative change of the capitalist system, by revolution."

Based Stalin.

"the spiritual life of society is a reflection of this objective reality" Therefore the easier it is to imagine revolution the closer it is in reality

Why don't you read Anti-During?

@Deleted User

Its one of the best intro. Better than manifesto I think