On AI, Robots, and the Future of Capitalism

By Victor Yarov

In his latest, Victor Yarov argues that AI and robotics intensify capitalism’s central economic contradiction: capital depends on labor as the source of value, yet automation progressively expels labor from production. As profitability, wages, and mass consumption are destabilized, the system cannot realize abundance without undermining its own foundations. In this case, fascism appears not as a response to a burgeoning labor movement but as the means to enforce the transition to a ‘techno-feudal’ and ‘techno-fascist’ settlement.