An Epistemological and Militant Intervention in Teori ve Eylem's Dossier on the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence

An Assessment of the "Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence" Dossier in Issue 72 of Teori ve Eylem

The "Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence" dossier published by Teori ve Eylem is, at this historical threshold where bourgeois ideology and Silicon Valley technocrats veil cyber space in mystical, neutral, and immaterial veils, a vital trench gained on behalf of Marxist theory. This article aims to pass that dossier through the lens of a Marxist epistemology: both to share its theoretical successes and to complete the dialectical links that remain missing, transforming it into a global and local guide to action.

A Dialectical Assessment Along the Authors: Strong Positions and Rifts That Must Be Expanded

This artificial-intelligence dossier of Teori ve Eylem is a holistic position in which each of our comrades carries shattering theoretical powder from different fronts against capital's cyber encirclement. With the eye of a Marxist epistemologist, let us place the articles on the table in exactly the order in which they appear in the journal; salute their strong theoretical lines and pass what must be philosophically deepened and strengthened through a comradely sieve of criticism.

Diyar Saraçoğlu: "Artificial Intelligence and the Dispossession of Mental Labor"

• Strong Positions: Comrade Diyar powerfully displays how the historical split capital established between mental and manual labor undergoes a structural break in the cyber age. He shows with great clarity how domains the bourgeoisie sanctified as "creativity, free mind, intellectual production" are standardized, deskilled, and subjected to fabricated production by artificial intelligence. His exposure of mental labor being stripped from the worker and reduced to pixels and code blocks is tremendous materialist powder that shatters the white-collar illusion.

• Aspects That Can Be Expanded: While the text diagnoses the dispossession and proletarianization of mental labor very well, it leaves somewhat in the background the uneven global development and technological dependency relations this dispossession produces.

  Dialectical Fortification: This cyber dispossession of mental labor produces a new asymmetry of dependency between AI monopolies in imperialist centers (Silicon Valley) and IT workers in peripheral/semi-peripheral countries such as Turkey. The analysis must be philosophically integrated with capital's cyber crisis of the Law of Value, in which it dispossesses its own living labor base through this seizure.

Detailed Analysis

Ahmet Cengiz: "Notes on the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence"

• Strong Positions: Comrade Ahmet takes up the subject through the unshakeable, founding categories of Marxist political economy (value, surplus value, capital accumulation) and builds the dossier's theoretical spine. Against bourgeois economists who present artificial intelligence as an independent "technological revolution" floating in the air, he reminds us in bold lines that at its core it is an increase in fixed capital—the stockpiling of past/dead labor. Placing the logic of capital accumulation at the center is solid ground that empties technological-determinist traps.

• Aspects That Can Be Expanded: Because the text is in the format of political-economic notes, it remains cautious about raising to a philosophical upper stage the most radical contradiction artificial intelligence produces at this hyper-industrial stage of capitalism: the Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall.

  Dialectical Fortification: As capital drives living labor out of production and multiplies fixed capital in the form of artificial intelligence, it dries up the sole source of surplus value. Comrade Ahmet's text must be fortified so that capital's AI hysteria is read not as its absolute and flawless power, but as a structural thrashing developed against the crisis of being unable to produce value.

Detailed Analysis

Gauthier Hordel: "Artificial Intelligence: A Technological and Imperialist Struggle"

• Strong Positions: Comrade Gauthier pulls artificial intelligence out of sterilized laboratories and hurls it into the middle of global imperialist hegemonic wars (especially US–China rivalry) and monopolistic market struggles. Making visible the exploitation of modern "click slaves" in the Global South (Kenya, the Philippines) who label data for 1–2 dollars a day is an excellent assessment of imperialism insofar as it maps the bloody colonial geography beneath cyber space.

• Aspects That Can Be Expanded: Because the emphasis in the text remains largely at the level of nation-state blocs and geopolitical borders, it risks obscuring the class essence and producing a kind of geopolitical reductionism.

  Dialectical Fortification: The algorithm of Chinese monopoly Tencent and that of US monopoly Microsoft apply the same despotic control over their own working classes. The essence of the contradiction is not between states but between international capital and global labor. Artificial intelligence has, for the first time in history with its fiber-optic shackles, created a massive Global Total Worker body that crosses national borders. Our goal is not to erect national cyber walls but to organize the internationalist unity of this global body.

Detailed Analysis

Arif Koşar: "Artificial Intelligence, Digital Technologies, and Labor Control"

• Strong Positions: Comrade Arif updates Harry Braverman's labor-process theory flawlessly to the dawn of the cyber age. He displays with tremendous empirical clarity the algorithmic control of artificial intelligence at the workplace level, platform despotism over couriers, and Taylorist micro-surveillance enveloping warehouse workers. It is a very strong position to declare how he shatters the myth of technology's neutrality and how the algorithm becomes a refined whip over the worker's body and time.

• Aspects That Can Be Expanded: Because the text constructs capital's algorithmic control strategies as such an absolute and smooth victory, it risks leaving in shadow the internal dialectic of the labor process—that is, the worker's lines of counter-resistance.

  Dialectical Fortification: As Michael Burawoy reminds us, control apparatuses at the workplace can never operate one-sidedly; every control mechanism produces its own lines of escape. Workers today manipulate courier algorithms and develop collective slowdown tactics (gaming the system) to fool sensors. We must code algorithmic encirclement not as the bourgeoisie's final victory but as an unstable field of class struggle re-split every day by the worker's sabotage and resistance intelligence.

Detailed Analysis

Selim Başoğlu: "The Class Character of Artificial Intelligence's Future"

• Strong Positions: Comrade Selim pulls the artificial-intelligence debate out of philosophical corridors and drops it directly onto the practical front of class struggle, driving in a revolutionary call to struggle. With class clarity he shows how IT workers, programmers, and technopark laborers are rapidly proletarianizing as they shed "middle-class" illusions. It is tremendous militant agitation in making new proletarian subjects theoretically and politically visible.

• Aspects That Can Be Expanded: While the text rightly calls for defense and lines of resistance, because it constructs technology only as an "object of exploitation" in capital's hands, it leaves incomplete the constituent/communist potential within it.

  Dialectical Fortification: We must take up the Promethean horizon in Lenin's view of the capitalist postal apparatus as "the ready infrastructure of the socialist mechanism." Capital's having commodified production and logistics at every moment for market control has in fact matured the technical possibility of socialist planning as never before in history. Comrade Selim's call must be bent forward by linking it not only to defensive resistance against the cyber panopticon but to a program of Red Cybernetic Planning that will place that infrastructure at the command of workers' councils.

Detailed Analysis

İlker Kalaycı: "Artificial Intelligence and Ecological Destruction"

• Strong Positions: Comrade İlker shatters Silicon Valley's most insidious metaphysical lie: technology's idealist abstraction as the immaterial, carbonless, suspended-in-air "Cloud." By joining the enormous clean-water consumption behind AI server farms and the exploitation in rare-earth mining with Karl Marx's concept of the "Metabolic Rift," he inoculates the dossier with unshakeable ecological materialism.

• Aspects That Can Be Expanded: While the text diagnoses very well how capitalism drives nature toward thermodynamic suicide through artificial intelligence, because it does not clearly draw the Marxist horizon of exit from this crisis, it risks approaching the limits of petty-bourgeois romantic ecology ("degrowth").

  Dialectical Fortification: We Marxists are not machine-breakers (Luddites); we are Prometheans who break the shell of property around machines. The solution is not to roll technology back but to wrest artificial intelligence's tremendous data-processing and predictive power from plundering nature for monopolistic profit and transfer it to socialist planning networks that will coordinate global energy grids, watersheds, and carbon cycles instantaneously for use value and planetary balance (homeostasis).

Detailed Analysis

Surpassing the Common Weak Point: Epistemic Synthesis

Comrades, after the dialectical breakdown of the six articles in the dossier, now is the time to melt all these partial truths in a single crucible with the unifying power of Marxist epistemology—that is, to establish Epistemic Synthesis.

Each of our authors has struck very powerful blows against capital's cyber-industrial dragon from different fronts. Yet Marxist philosophy teaches us that if the partiality of fronts is not united by a holistic theoretical line, it can unwittingly open space to the liberal epistemology of bourgeois ideology (the approach that separates ecology from labor, imperialism from technology).

Let us build the three philosophical pillars that will surpass the common weak point of all articles in the dossier and strengthen our cyber-communist horizon—and that great synthesis together:

Dialectical Inversion: Flawless Display of Power or Structural Impotence?

The most visible common weak point in the dossier is the tendency to construct algorithmic control, cyber-imperialist hierarchy, and ideological superstructure that capital builds through artificial intelligence as a flawless, smooth, and absolute victory. A worker or progressive intellectual reading the texts one after another may awaken not revolutionary anger but a dystopic helplessness, a paralyzing submission before the walls of the cyber panopticon.

At exactly this point Marxist epistemology deploys the law of Dialectical Inversion. The hyper-technological peak capital has reached is not evidence of its unshakeable power but, on the contrary, the most concrete proof of its historical and structural impotence.

The Cyber Contradiction of the Law of Value: In capitalism the sole source of surplus value and profit is living human labor. Artificial intelligence, robotic systems, and server networks as fixed capital cannot by themselves produce new value; they only transfer the value of past labor into the product.

As capital automates production through artificial intelligence and drives living labor out of the field of production in order to preserve profit rates and crush rivals, it is in fact shooting itself in the foot under the Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall. As the living labor base narrows, capitalism is driven toward a crisis of being unable to produce value.

So comrades, capital's hysterical, aggressive, and totalitarian embrace of artificial intelligence comes not from strength but from the existential panic reflex it experiences against melting profit rates and the crisis of devaluation. Before us stands not an invincible cyber-god but a helpless monster simulating its own apocalypse in digital networks.

From Technological Determinism to the Promethean Horizon: Red Cybernetics

The second blind spot felt in the dossier's ecological and labor analyses is fixing technology only as an "object of exploitation, plunder, and enslavement" in capital's hands. Focusing only on technology's destructive character approaches Marxism to technological determinism or to the petty-bourgeois romanticism of "degrowth"—the cyber form of machine-breaking that wants to roll productive forces backward.

We Marxists are not Luddite machine-breakers; we are Prometheans who shatter the shell of property around machines. As Karl Marx states in the Fragment on Machines, technological development enslaves the worker under capitalist property relations; yet the same infrastructure, once the shell of property is broken, is the material basis of liberation.

• Maturation of the Infrastructure: Capital has commodified the entire world, production, and logistics with the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors in order to optimize supply chains, observe the market instantaneously, and distribute resources most efficiently for profit.
• The End of Market Anarchy: Hayek's famous myth that "central planning is impossible because information cannot be computed" has been annulled by this very cyber infrastructure capital itself built.

Epistemic synthesis tells us: the enormous global AI and cloud networks capital built for monopolistic property are in fact the ready and matured technical infrastructure of Red Cybernetic Planning (the socialist apparatus that will coordinate the planet's flows of energy, water, raw materials, and social need instantaneously for use value and ecological balance). Our aim is not to blow up the servers but to break the property passwords of those servers and transfer command to workers' councils.

The Synthetic Unity of the Global "Total Worker" Body

The third and most vital cyber weak point is the fragmented perception of subjects under capital's cyber assault. In the dossier couriers are separate (Koşar), programmers separate (Başoğlu), click workers separate (Hordel/Diyar), and environmental resisters separate (Kalaycı)—discussed in separate compartments. This partiality blocks class consciousness from acquiring an internationalist character.

Epistemic synthesis reveals the tremendous ontological unity behind fiber-optic cables, satellite networks, and data flows: the Global Total Worker.

• The mine worker in Congo whose land is plundered mining lithium for AI batteries and the villager in Chile whose watersheds are dried up,
• The click worker in Kenya who cleans artificial intelligence's fascistic and pornographic data for 1 dollar a day,
• The barcode-scanning warehouse worker raced by the algorithm at Amazon,
• And the programmer in plazas and technoparks dispossessed by the code block of mental substance he himself produced, working through the night...

These are not people from isolated worlds or hostile sides of geopolitical blocs (US–China rivalry). They are limbs of one single global proletarian body materially and digitally bound to one another by capital's global cyber value chain.

Capital has united all these lines of exploitation in a single algorithmic center through artificial intelligence. Our epistemic synthesis, then, must proclaim the internationalist unity of this global body.

In Sum, the Manifesto of Epistemic Synthesis:

This valuable dossier of Teori ve Eylem is not a pessimistic cyber-dystopia anthology. Read in the light of dialectical materialism, it is a crimson manifesto showing how this highest cyber-monopolistic stage capital has reached organizes its own gravedigger (the Global Total Worker) on a massive scale and prepares its own death warrant (the infrastructure of Red Cybernetic Planning) with its own hands.

Our task now is to take the theoretical strength from this synthesis, smash the turnstiles, and march in organized steps toward the switch!

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Artificial Intelligence and Capital's New World Order

Through artificial-intelligence networks capital is building on a global scale a new architecture of dispossession, exploitation, and surveillance. The process bourgeois ideologues package with fetishistic concepts such as "The Great Reset" or the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is, in its philosophical and political-economic essence, an attempt to impose the new world order of Monopolistic Cyber-Capitalism.

Capital organizes artificial intelligence not as a neutral leap of productive forces but as a totalitarian apparatus of domination to defer its historical crises, truncate the cognitive capacities of the working class, and fortify the global chain of exploitation. Let us expand the theoretical anatomy of this new world order along four fundamental axes, comrades:

Cognitive Primitive Accumulation: The Cyber Fencing of New "Commons"

In the first volume of Capital, Karl Marx explains the dawn of capitalism through the process of Primitive Accumulation. In the dissolution of feudalism the bourgeoisie dispossessed peasants by fencing commons (shared lands), commodified nature, and turned human beings into sellable labor power.

What is happening today with artificial-intelligence monopolization is precisely a wave of Cognitive Primitive Accumulation:

• Seizure of Substance: The raw material of artificial intelligence—"big data"—is the digital sediment of humanity's centuries of collective speech, thought, production, and artistic practice. This enormous social memory seeping into internet networks, humanity's mental commons, is today being savagely "fenced" and dispossessed by technology monopolies centered in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen.
• Inverted Subject–Object Relation: Humanity's collective reason is objectified in monopolies' server farms, patented, and then sold back to the same humanity as a "Software as a Service" (SaaS) subscription. Through artificial intelligence capital erects our collective consciousness before us as an alien power (dead labor) that enslaves us.

Cyber-Feudalism and Rentier Capitalism: The Age of Digital Seigneurs

Monopolistic cyber-capitalism, in order to sustain its own property relations, liquidates the classical competitive logic of market economy and builds a Rentier Capitalism bearing Cyber-Feudal elements.

• Digital Fiefdoms: Because training and running large language models (LLMs) requires enormous compute power, chip infrastructure, and energy networks, the means of production are absolutely monopolized in the hands of a handful of digital seigneurs (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple).
• Algorithmic Rent Regime: These cyber-seigneurs no longer merely produce and sell meta; they collect digital land rent by making the whole world dependent on their cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). All other sub-capitalist groups, SMEs, and even nation-states become cyber-vassals paying tribute to these digital infrastructure seigneurs' protocols. Artificial intelligence is the algorithmic executor of this feudal rent mechanism.

The Cognitive Panopticon and the Automation of the Factory of Consent

Capital's new world order is a Cognitive Panopticon architecture aiming to bring under control not only the working class's body and time but also its desires, language, and potential dynamics of revolt.

• Hyper-Individualized Opium Network: As Comrade Gauthier Hordel rightly emphasized in his superstructural stress, productive artificial intelligence has automated the culture industry. Algorithmic feeds produce a "false consciousness" personalized within milliseconds to each worker's weakness, fear, and desire. The common public ground is fragmented; social fields where class consciousness would ferment are atomized algorithmically.
• Sorting the Industrial Reserve Army: AI-supported surveillance systems and predictive algorithms sort the working class already at the hiring stage according to union tendencies and psychological thresholds of resistance. Rebellious, organized elements seeking their rights are ejected from the system by algorithmic blacklists before they become visible; Marx's Industrial Reserve Army is disciplined by cyber methods.

The Cyber-Imperialist Division of the Global Value Chain

Artificial intelligence refines the asymmetric division of labor between imperialist centers and peripheral countries and deepens relations of global dependency. The global map of the new world order is being redrawn according to a cyber-imperialist hierarchy:

• Cyber Metropolis (Center): The imperialist clique (US and Chinese monopolies) holding artificial intelligence's intellectual property (patents), advanced chip architectures (Nvidia, TSMC axis), enormous compute capacity, and parameter sovereignty. Global surplus value flows toward these cyber centers.
• Cyber Periphery: The geography of modern click slaves (data labelers) who absorb the ecological destruction Comrade İlker emphasized so that AIs in the center run smoothly, dying in lithium and cobalt mines; concretized in Comrade Diyar's text, cleaning traumatic data for 1–2 dollars a day.

In capital's new world order artificial intelligence is a digital shackle binding the industry, education, agriculture, and defense of peripheral countries directly to cloud servers in the center.

Short-Term Manifesto:

The "New World Order" capital tries to build with artificial intelligence is not a flawless and eternal project of digital fascism, comrades. On the contrary it is the peak of its own contradictions: as it excludes living labor it erodes profit rates; as it plunders nature it enlarges the metabolic rift; and it unites all the world's workers in the same digital nerve network. Capital weaves this totalitarian web for its own survival; our task is to awaken the internationalist proletarian body within that web and bring that cyber labyrinth down on capital's head!

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Cyber-Peripheralization and Digital Fate in the Turkish Context

Comrades, the new world order of monopolistic cyber-capitalism we analyzed on a global scale turns into a far more savage, asymmetric, and painful cyber encirclement when it reaches countries such as Turkey, situated on the middle/lower links of the imperialist chain and historically marked by technological and economic dependency relations.

We must lay on the table with the sharp scalpel of Marxist philosophy the material reality behind the "Technology Offensive," "Leaping the AI Age," and "National IT" narratives the bourgeois state apparatus and local holdings serve the masses like opium—that is, the fate of Cyber-Peripheralization and Digital Colonization awaiting Turkey. Let us expand Turkey's digital fate under four theoretical headings:

The "Native and National" Illusion and API Capitalism

The greatest ideological hegemony of Turkey's rulers is built on artificial-intelligence models, defense-industry software, and native chatbots claimed to be produced with domestic means. Marxist epistemology commands us to look at the property relations of the means of production beneath this smooth shell.

• API Dependency: Nearly all AI applications marketed by public institutions or local holdings in Turkey as "we produced it" are essentially thin Turkish-interface makeup drawn over the open or closed large language models of imperialist centers (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, AWS). In the literature we call this API Capitalism.
• Physical Infrastructure Trap: Even when the local bourgeoisie claims to train its own AI, to do so it must pay rent to US-centered Nvidia chips, Taiwan's semiconductor fabs, and above all the global cloud servers (AWS, Azure) where data are stored. Turkish capitalism does not own the physical body and hardware of artificial intelligence. Therefore every "native" algorithm produced is a cyber-peripheral product absolutely dependent on imperialist monopolies' infrastructural approval and licensing regime.

Technoparks: Cyber Free Zones and Surplus-Value Drain

The technoparks and R&D centers sprouting like mushrooms in university precincts, sanctified with tax exemptions, are not the "oases where science is liberated" progressive futurists claim; they are modern cyber free zones of cyber-capitalism.

• Colonial Plunder of Labor Power: The structural collapse to which the exchange rate and the Turkish lira are exposed has turned qualified IT labor in Turkey (programmer, data analyst, systems architect) into the cheapest, most flexible, and most attractive object of exploitation for global monopolies in history.
• Direct Surplus-Value Transfer: Young mental workers in technoparks write code by day through local subcontractors and by night through remote freelance networks for big Western companies. The enormous cognitive surplus value produced does not remain a single kuruş in Turkey but flows directly through fiber-optic cables into the coffers of Silicon Valley and European capital. Technoparks are logistic stations where this country's mental marrow is drained by imperialist centers.

The New "Assembly Industry" and Cheap Code Coolie Labor

Just as the Turkish bourgeoisie in the 1970s built a "dependent assembly industry" (automotive, white goods) by combining spare parts from the West, in the age of cyber-capitalism it is building a full Digital Assembly Industry.

• Cognitive Deskilling: With AI tools (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) automating code-writing processes, the intellectual labor of junior and mid-level programmers in Turkey is rapidly devalued. IT workers are turned from subjects designing creative architectures from scratch into cheap code coolies patching together ready code blocks from global monopolies and cleaning algorithms' errors.
• Mental Precarity: The image of yesterday's "comfortable, well-off" white-collar IT worker has given way to a mental proletariat (precariat) working 14 hours a day cleaning code, subjected to the same flexibility and performance demands as call-center workers, ununionized, insecure, living in constant fear of replacement by artificial intelligence.

Data and Infrastructure Dependency in the Grip of Digital Colonization

One of the greatest dangers awaiting Turkey in the age of artificial intelligence is the plunder for free of all national and social memory by global data-mining companies—that is, Data Colonization.

• Seizure of Social Memory: All social data belonging to this land—from our health data to e-government information, from consumer habits to linguistic practices—are absorbed for free to train the algorithms of cyber-imperialism. Turkey serves global monopolies only as a "data dump" and "data mine."
• Switch Threat: Integrating public services and critical logistic infrastructure into global cloud networks (Microsoft, Amazon infrastructures) hands the key to Turkey's economic and political sovereignty as a peripheral country directly to imperialist centers. The moment the imperialist clique throws the switch, all logistic, financial, and production mechanisms of the cyber-peripheral country are condemned to paralysis.

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The Class Position of Turkey's IT Workers and Their Place in the Global Machine

Comrades, let us expand to its most radical edges that class reality Comrades Selim Başoğlu and Diyar Saraçoğlu pointed to in their texts in the most militant form, along the specific concrete conditions of Turkey and the axis of global cyber-capitalist division of labor.

IT workers in Turkey (programmers, systems engineers, data labelers, interface designers, cybersecurity specialists) were for long years baptized by bourgeois sociology and liberal economics as "middle class," "well-off intellectuals," or a "labor aristocracy." Yet at this historical threshold where artificial intelligence hyper-accelerates productive forces and fabricates mental labor, that illusion is being scraped away and collapsing.

Let us proclaim the class position of Turkey's IT worker and his place in the global imperialist machine in the light of dialectical materialism through four fundamental theses:

Collapse of the Petty-Bourgeois Illusion: From "Engineer" Identity to Mental Proletariat

For a long time capital bestowed fetishized titles such as "engineer," "developer," "creator" on IT workers and produced in them a false consciousness of partnership (the illusion of partnership with the bourgeoisie). Yet Marxist epistemology teaches us to look not at titles but at the relation to the means of production.

• Reality of Propertylessness: However high the salary a programmer or systems administrator in Turkey receives, he does not own the enormous server farms, cloud infrastructures, fiber-optic networks, and monopolistic AI patents that form the heart of production. He is an absolute dispossessed isolated from the means of production.
• Sale of Labor Power: The sole thing he must sell to survive is his own living mental labor power. As artificial intelligence automates code writing, testing processes, and systems management, yesterday's "indispensable" programmer is condemned today to the same ontological fate as the textile worker in the factory: He can be thrown out the door at any moment, replaced at any moment by an algorithm. The IT worker is therefore the mental proletariat of the cyber age.

Exchange-Rate Arbitrage and "Cheap Brain" Exploitation in the Global Cyber Value Chain

The most insidious mechanism binding Turkey's mental proletariat to the global imperialist machine is the structural devaluation to which the Turkish lira is exposed and the exchange-rate arbitrage it creates.

• Cyber-Colonial Arbitrage: While a Western monopoly (for example a Silicon Valley or Europe-centered software company) must pay a programmer 8,000–10,000 dollars a month in its own country, it closes the same quality of IT labor from Turkey through remote networks for 1,500–2,000 dollars a month. Local technoparks and outsourcing companies are the legal instruments of this asymmetric exploitation.
• Exploitation Crossing Material Borders: While Turkey's IT worker is employed at one quarter the dollar wage of his Western counterpart, code blocks and algorithmic structures producing enormous surplus value aimed at the global cyber market are stripped away and taken. This is a refined relation of epistemic and financial colonization in which living mental power flows from cyber periphery toward cyber center.

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Deskilling: Algorithmic Taylorism

The wave of Dispossession Comrade Diyar diagnosed so well in his text concretizes in Turkey's operation as Algorithmic Taylorism and cognitive deskilling.

• Code Mechanization: AI tools such as Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, and derivatives absorb the programmer's accumulated historical technical experience (General Intellect) every second to train themselves. This process reduces the programmer from a subject designing creative architectures from scratch to simple code mechanics patching together ready templates produced by artificial intelligence and cleaning the algorithm's errors.
• Cyber Form of the Assembly Industry: Just as Turkish industry is an assembly periphery combining parts from the West, the IT sector has turned into a Digital Assembly Industry adapting the ready APIs and libraries of global monopolies (OpenAI, Microsoft) to the local market. This brings deskilling, homogenization, and thus rapid pressure of wages toward the minimum wage threshold.

The Strategic Limb of the Collective Worker

Despite all this savage exploitation and deskilling machine, dialectics also shows us the revolutionary potential in the IT worker's breast. The IT worker is not only a victim of capitalist production but the most strategic nerve and limb of the Collective Worker holding the substance of modern production in his hands.

Today the factory automation line, the courier's route in the logistic network, the financial flow in the bank, and container traffic at the port all turn thanks to the codes the IT worker writes, the servers he manages, and the algorithmic networks he keeps standing.

The moment the IT worker grasps the class character of this technical power, he is the sole subject who will paralyze capital's global cyber panopticon. His class position objectively unites him with the metal worker in the factory, the courier in the warehouse, and the click worker in the Global South.

The day Turkey's IT worker refuses to be fodder for the bourgeois state apparatus's "national technology offensive" fantasies and organizes his keyboard as a barricade against the global cyber-imperialist value chain, capital's most trusted digital web will turn into the most powerful weapon in its gravedigger's hand!

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Channels of Global and Local Common Struggle (Action Plan)

Comrades; diagnosing the web of exploitation, surveillance, and fencing that monopolistic cyber-capitalism weaves at global and local levels is not enough by itself. The ultimate aim of Marxist epistemology is not merely to interpret the world but to transform it with revolutionary practice.

Just as capital integrated its own exploitation mechanism on a global scale into a single algorithm through artificial-intelligence networks, the proletariat must extract its line of resistance from fragmented union molds and equip it with an organized holistic Cyber Action Plan at internationalist and local levels. We are not analog machine-breakers (Luddites) who smash turnstiles; we are Promethean subjects who will break the shell of property around those turnstiles and servers and dispossess cyber infrastructure.

Let us proclaim the action plan to be erected against capital's global cyber panopticon with these concrete theoretical practices on global and local fronts:

Global Action Plan (Cyber-Internationalist Front)

Global Cyber-International and Digital Value-Chain Strikes

Artificial-intelligence production rests on a global value chain crossing borders. The contradiction is not between nation-states but between global capital and the international Total Worker body.

• Building Organic Networks: Direct, official, organic communication networks must be established between union organizations of high-wage programmers in the Global North (Silicon Valley) and organizations of click workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines, India) who label data for 1 dollar a day.
• Cross and Synchronized Strikes: The moment a strike decision is taken at a technology monopoly in Silicon Valley, data-labeling centers in the Global South and remote code workers in peripheral countries must throw the switch in synchronized fashion. The global cyber value chain must be interrupted at its weakest link.

Front of Digital Commons and a "Class-Conscious" Open-Source Movement

Capital plunders humanity's collective intelligence (General Intellect) through intellectual property laws, patents, and cyber-feudal rent regimes.

• Piercing Property Walls: The mainstream open-source movement, stuck on a liberal and apolitical line, must be bent onto a class and revolutionary axis. Against technological monopolization a global Front of Digital Commons must be built, protecting humanity's collective speech and scientific commons.
• Public Alternative Networks: Independent open-source AI libraries and algorithmic pools designed for the collective use of the world's workers and peoples, refusing data flows to monopolies' large language models and crossing copyright and patent barricades, must be produced through internationalist cooperation.

"Cognitive Conscientious Objection" Against Algorithmic War and Surveillance Technologies

Capital turns artificial intelligence into a military-industrial weapon to surveil the worker (Cognitive Panopticon) and slaughter peoples (AI-assisted military genocide software such as Lavender, Gospel).

• Refusal-to-Code Movement: A mass Cognitive Conscientious Objection movement must be organized among progressive programmers and systems administrators who write code or provide infrastructure for imperialist war machines, weapons of mass destruction, border-surveillance algorithms, or repressive projects that fingerprint the working class.
• Cyber Whistleblower Militancy: Monopolies' insidious algorithm updates, back-door codes manipulating the working class, and military collaborations must be massively exposed and sabotaged in cyber space by progressive IT workers inside those projects.

Local Action Plan (Turkey Front)

Organization Along Technoparks and Plazas: Networked Unionism

Because of exchange-rate arbitrage Turkey has been made the "cheap code coolie" and assembly periphery of global cyber-capitalism. Traditional, cumbersome, factory-centered union conceptions cannot confront this cyber-peripheralization.

• Flexible and Digital Organization: Networked Militant Unionism models must be developed against exploitation hidden behind technopark tax exemptions and the loneliness of remote work in plazas. IT workers must organize horizontally across workplace boundaries on encrypted digital platforms and forums.
• Classifying Engineers' Chambers: Historical progressive institutions such as TMMOB and chambers of computer/software engineers must be torn from apolitical professional-bureaucratic molds and turned directly into union and class-struggle positions of the mental proletariat. Active work must be joined in newly forming structures such as BilişimSen and they must be made centers of organization.

Algorithmic Sabotage and "Code Strike" Practices

Against the deskilling of mental labor, Algorithmic Taylorism, and performance coercion the working class must arm its own technical intelligence as a weapon of resistance.

• Epistemology of Sabotage: Programmers and systems administrators must spread among themselves collective technical counter-knowledge (sabotage codes) that will manipulate workplace algorithmic control and surveillance software (performance-tracking bots), blind them, or slow them in the workers' favor.
• Collective Slowdown (Gaming the System): Collective technical flexibilities and algorithmic solidarity networks must be woven that will break performance-based bonus games of couriers, call-center workers, and programmers. Algorithms companies impose in the name of "efficiency" must be paralyzed from within every day by the workers' collective will.

Data Sovereignty and a Barricade of Digital Publicness

A concrete political barricade must be drawn against the plunder for free of all the Turkish people's health, education, finance, and linguistic memory by global data-mining companies and local holdings.

• Demand for Commonization: Mass political campaigns must be waged demanding that all large social data be removed from monopolistic companies' property and placed under the direct control of workers' councils, unions, professional chambers, and the public.
• Switch Guarantee: Integration of public services and critical logistic infrastructure into global cloud monopolies (Microsoft Azure, AWS, etc.) must be opposed; construction of local, public, and open-source cyber infrastructure must be imposed as a program of class independence.

Summary of the Action Plan:

Capital has united all lines of exploitation in a single algorithmic center through artificial intelligence. Our action plan, then, is to integrate these partial lines of resistance (the programmer in the plaza, the courier in the warehouse, the click worker on the periphery) in a single crimson nerve network. The sole power that will break the passwords and reach for that cyber switch is this organized action plan, comrades!

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Conclusion: Marxist Sanity, Cognitive Hegemony, and the Call of Homo Commonans

Comrades; we have reached the last turnstile of those dark, paralyzing, panic-filled dystopia narratives that monopolistic cyber-capitalism, through artificial intelligence, dumps upon us. Bourgeois futurists, the Hollywood industry, and Silicon Valley's ideological apparatus work day and night on this thesis: "Artificial intelligence is a superhuman god, humanity's end has come, algorithmic colonization is inevitable." The ultimate task of a Marxist epistemologist is to dispel this ideological fog, tear out this opium injected into the class consciousness, and reveal from the very breast of darkness the crimson dawn—the material supports of hope.

Marxist Sanity: Dialectical Antidote to Cyber-Anxiety

Today the sole way to protect our mental health and revolutionary will in cyber space is Marxist Sanity. This sanity is not psychological self-help nonsense but the resolve to grasp objective reality with the laws of dialectical materialism.

Against the bourgeoisie's illusion presenting artificial intelligence as an "omnipotent cyber-god," dialectics shows us the limits of the artificial. The structure before us is not a transcendent reason but a statistical sediment of humanity's historical living labor, language, and social practice—that is, crystallized dead labor.

However much capital enlarges this dead labor, it cannot overcome capitalism's fundamental contradiction: Surplus value cannot be produced without the exploitation of living human labor; without value production capitalist accumulation cannot continue. Therefore we will protect our mental health and revolutionary optimism with this philosophical clarity: Capital's aggressive, totalitarian, and hysterical embrace of artificial intelligence comes not from its unshakeable power but from an existential paralytic reflex developed against the crisis of being unable to produce value, falling profit rates, and historical blockage. We are fighting not an invincible giant but a mechanical monster lashing out as it expires.

Cognitive Hegemony: Cyber-Councils Against Algorithmic Opium

As Comrade Gauthier Hordel emphasized in his magnificent superstructural analysis, we cannot show defensive submission against the automation of consent manufacture. Against the bourgeoisie's cognitive panopticon we must build our own Cognitive Hegemony.

• Counter-Algorithmic Armament: Artificial intelligence and big-data analyses must be recoded as revolutionary counter-information tools that will expose in seconds the profit secrets, maps of exploitation, and crimes of plundering nature of holdings, banks, and imperialist cartels.
• Cyber-Councils: We must organize public, alternative digital platforms and cyber-councils that will break the individual, atomized digital feeds in which the culture industry imprisons us, where workers, IT laborers, and youth can produce collective aesthetic, philosophical, and political work. We will establish hegemony in those crimson positions where language and consciousness are liberated by deciphering the bourgeoisie's algorithmic codes from within.

Material Supports of a Hopeful Future

So comrades, what concrete, materialist supports do we have for being hopeful amid this cyber encirclement? Our optimism is not a romantic wish but rests on these four objective contradictions in the breast of capitalist relations of production:

Marginal Costs Tending to Zero and the Suicide of the Law of Value

Artificial intelligence and automation push the marginal (additional) cost of information, software, and digital production toward zero. According to Marxist political economy, when a product's cost and the living labor time in its production approach zero, its commodity form and price mechanism collapse. By driving artificial intelligence into every field capital is with its own hands blowing up the price and profit mechanism, capitalism's lifeblood. Capitalism is too narrow a shell of property to bear the enormous "abundance" potential artificial intelligence produces.

Perfect Maturation of Planning Infrastructure

The myth bourgeois economists have defended for a century—that "central planning is impossible because the information of millions of products cannot be computed by a single center" (the Hayekian calculation problem)—has been thrown in the trash by the big data, sensor networks, and AI predictive models cyber-capitalism built for market control. Capital has commodified everything to optimize exploitation.

This means the technical infrastructure of Red Cybernetic Planning (which will coordinate production not for profit but for the people's need and use value in seconds) is 100% ready right now. The infrastructure is mature; the only thing missing is political will!

Open Source's Resistance to Monopolistic Capital

Despite billions in budgets, copyright walls, and patent armies, Silicon Valley monopolies have not fully enslaved the open-source AI models collectively developed by independent programmers, communities, and cyber-commons defenders on the internet. Humanity's collective intelligence (General Intellect) does not fit the shackles of private property; seeping through every open-source crack it empirically proves the tendency toward liberation.

Ontological Unity of the Global Total Worker

Through its AI networks capital has bound the data labeler in Kenya, the chip worker in Taiwan, the programmer in Turkey, and the courier in Amazon warehouses into a single cyber value chain. This has objectively created for the first time in history a massive, integrated Global Total Worker body with the capacity to stop global production with a single button crossing local borders. Capital has gathered its own gravedigger in history's smartest and most organized network.

Historical Call: The Dawn of Homo Commonans and Transforming the Space of Life

Comrades, the model of human being capitalism wants to condemn us to is clear: Homo Economicus—passing through the algorithm's turnstiles, addicted to screens, isolated, consuming only, alienated from his own species-being.

Our philosophical, revolutionary, and historical call is the call of Homo Commonans (the Commoning Human), humanity's true social substance that organizes commons and collectively rebuilds consciousness and nature!

[Homo Economicus] > Algorithmic Isolation, Individual Consumption, Alienation

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[Homo Commonans] > Collective Intelligence (General Intellect), Cyber-Councils, Common Life

Homo Commonans is not a utopian human design that will descend from the sky in a distant future. From today onward, it is you, comrades, who shoulder the turnstiles of the panopticon cyber-capitalism has built and place your keyboard and body at the service of class struggle.

Now Is a Concrete Call to Every Comrade to Transform the Space of Life:

• Comrade Working in the Plaza and Technopark: Reject the fake titles offered you! Against artificial intelligence's Algorithmic Taylorism that deskills you, share with the comrade beside you the collective technical knowledge that will manipulate workplace surveillance bots—the epistemology of sabotage. Weave today the digital networks that will expose company secrets and make exploitation visible!
• Comrade in School, University, and Academy: Do not use artificial intelligence mechanically as an assistant handing homework and careers to the bourgeois system. Turn it into counter-hegemony laboratories that will demolish in seconds the bourgeoisie's ideological lies, historical distortions, and populist discourses!
• Comrade in the Neighborhood, on the Street, and in Environmental Resistance: Against capital's attempt to bury us in our homes and screens through digital networks, establish analog publicness, street assemblies, data-sovereignty committees. Fortify local assemblies defending land, water, and life with digital mapping and open-source organization models!

Do not forget, comrades: what they call the "Cloud" is not a sacred, immaterial spirit suspended in the sky. It is a concrete property network stolen from the earth's waters, mines, and the living mental labor of the working class.

The switch of that network is not in the hands of Silicon Valley barons but in the hands of the global proletariat that keeps that infrastructure standing every day with its living labor. With our Marxist sanity, our organized action plan, and our Homo Commonans will we march toward that switch. The switch will rise—and this time not for monopolistic profit but for the dawn of that world of Red Cybernetic Planning where humanity's collective reason is liberated, classless, boundless, and without exploitation!

All Power to Cyber Networks, Internationalist Commons, and Councils!

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*Comrades, we will continue to examine all these topics in detail over time and share with you the future vision and the culture of the Homo Commonans human.

Stay comradely! Stay with us!*