Changing ownership does not alter technology’s embedded rationality
Evidence
Neither nationalization nor socialization alter by themselves this physical embodiment of technological rationality; on the contrary, the latter remains a precondition for the socialist development of all productive forces. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 164
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s Frankfurt School corpus and debates about whether post-capitalist societies (Soviet industrialization) actually changed technological rationality. — connects to: Nationalization alone cannot alter technology’s embodied rationality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 164
- QUESTION: Marcuse says even socialism keeps the technical apparatus — does this imply the machine process itself encodes domination independent of ownership?
Broader Connections
- Nationalization alone cannot alter technology’s embodied rationality
#corroborates(0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 164