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技術をめぐる闘争は科学そのものに対する戦いではなく、利益を高め支配を強化するために科学を支配する支配勢力による科学の独占に対するものです。人工知能はそれ自体が脅威とみなされるべきではなく、社会的、政治的、経済的、知的な力のバランスによって形作られる新たな戦場として捉えるべきです。
危機の時には、資本主義は高度な科学技術のツールを使って自らを再発明し、再構築します。これにより、搾取的な核を変えずに課題を乗り越えることができます。例えば、2008年の世界金融危機の際、資本主義政府は科学技術、公的資金を使って経済を救済し、金融システムは存続しつつも失敗のコストを労働者階級に転嫁させました。同様に、2020年のCOVID-19パンデミックの際、多くの左派は資本主義が終末危機に突入していると考えていました。それでも資本主義は再び生き残りました。政府や大企業は自動化、人工知能、リモートワークの活用を加速させ、資本主義経済が新たな方法で世界的なロックダウンにもかかわらず存続できるようにしました。しかし、この変化は人力への依存度の低下、企業利益の増加、そして広範な雇用不安定や解雇をもたらしました。
The struggle over technology is not a fight against science itself but against the monopolization of science by dominant forces that use it to enhance profit and reinforce control. Artificial intelligence should not be seen as a threat in itself, but as a new battlefield shaped by the balance of social, political, economic, and intellectual forces.
In times of crisis, capitalism reinvents and restructures itself using advanced scientific and technological tools. These enable it to overcome challenges without changing its exploitative core. For instance, during the global financial crisis of 2008, capitalist governments used science, technology, and public funds to rescue the economy, allowing the financial system to continue while transferring the costs of failure to the working class. Similarly, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many on the left believed capitalism was entering a terminal crisis. Yet capitalism managed to survive once again. Governments and large corporations accelerated their use of automation, artificial intelligence, and remote work, allowing the capitalist economy to persist using new methods despite global lockdowns. However, this shift led to a decrease in reliance on human labor, increased corporate profits, and widespread job insecurity or layoffs.
2026年1月初旬の平凡な日の夜明けに、世界は一見するとは明らかでなかった衝撃的なニュースで目を覚ました。それは、残忍な米国の軍事的侵略と、ベネズエラ大統領ニコラス・マドゥロとその妻シリア・フローレスが、極めて軍事的かつ情報的な精密さで実行された複雑な作戦で拉致されたというものだった。この作戦には直接的な軍事攻撃、激しい砲撃、兵器庫や防衛プラットフォームの体系的な破壊が含まれていましたが、デジタル技術の大規模な活用に大きく依存しており、ここで分析する軸に焦点を当てます。主流メディアの報道は政治的・外交的側面に焦点を当て、この作戦における高度な技術が果たした重要な役割に、自発的であれ意図的であれ、真の注意を払っていなかった。これは一部の西側メディアが描こうとしたような単なる伝統的な軍事介入ではなく、むしろ、逮捕に先立つ包括的かつ組織的なデジタル戦争であり、逮捕に先立つ長い数か月、場合によっては数年にわたる計画、監視、準備があった。
続ける前に、ここで私の懸念を述べたいのは、マドゥロ政権が異論を抑圧し、自由を制限し、左派や労働組合への支配を強化する政策についてのことです。アメリカの資本主義介入、国際法違反、そして技術を覇権の武器として利用することへの批判は、マドゥロ政権がベネズエラの進歩的勢力や労働運動、特にベネズエラ共産党に対して行った弾圧的な行為を正当化することを意味しません。アメリカ資本主義の攻撃的な軍国主義に反対することは、内部専制への批判と矛盾しません。むしろ、それは左派の価値観と整合する立場です。ここで強調しているのは、この事件がマドゥロ政権自体の評価に関わらず、すべての左派および進歩的運動に技術的かつ戦略的な教訓をもたらすということです。
This effort requires coordination and joint work globally through building digital alliances and internationals whose goal is to develop the digital struggle of the Left in the whole world. And as the First, Second, and Third Internationals were historical responses to the stages of capitalist development, the Digital International today is a strategic necessity to face capitalism in its most ferocious digital phase. Yet, building these independent technological alternatives is fraught with serious dilemmas: the dilemma of relying on knowledge and tools developed in the bosom of the capitalist system itself, the dilemma of the massive resources required for competition, and the dilemma of coordination between feuding leftist forces.
Therefore, this project cannot be a separate utopian one; rather, it must be a strategic tactic that starts from the critical and cautious use of available tools, and building technical solidarity networks on the basis of shared practical issues, and seeking to develop an alternative core in the spaces provided by open-source technology and decentralized networks, with the recognition that it is a long-term cumulative project and not an immediate magical solution, which is the historical task that falls on the shoulders of our youth to merge the values of justice with the horizons of technology.
The left, which has played a recognized role in advancing freedoms, equality, and justice, can overcome the current situation. Just as capitalism has developed itself on a massive scale, let this digital struggle become a moment of qualitative development for the present left toward an electronic – digital left integrated with struggle on the ground, more courageous, more radical, more scientific, and more capable of renewal and of leading the struggle of its era, and of defending the future of the socialist alternative in the face of the most dangerous attack it has faced in its modern history. The struggle for control over digital technology is not merely a technical struggle, but a struggle over the future of humanity itself.
… Just as machines were used during the industrial revolution to intensify exploitation instead of reducing working hours, artificial intelligence today is employed in automation to lower production costs and reduce the need for human labor in most cases, imposing more precarious and less secure working conditions.
This also deepens alienation, as manual and intellectual workers are turned into human tools in their workplaces and replaced by algorithms, which leads to increased unemployment or forces them to seek alternative work.…
現段階では、左派組織は、政治分析、大衆動員、メディアなどの分野で人工知能の可能性を活用しながら、大企業の支配から解放された独立した技術ツールの開発に粘り強く取り組むと同時に、慎重かつ批判的な意識を持って人工知能に取り組まなければなりません。
テクノロジーを解放するための闘争は、資本主義に対する階級闘争と切り離すことができず、真の解放は、デジタル生産のツールに対する集団的統制なしには達成できない。結局のところ、この問題はテクノロジーだけの問題ではなく、人間社会そのものの未来をめぐる闘争の問題です。
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DR.マッツ・ギルバート：昨日、シファの同僚から報告を受けました。医療スタッフが熱を出している。疲労困憊しているからかもしれないが、合理的に考えれば、感染しているからだろう。1万人、2万人、3万人の人々が非常に密集した空間に詰め込まれ、十分なトイレもなく、手を洗うための十分な水（水道水）もなく、赤ちゃんを清潔にすることもできず、傷口を清潔にすることもできなければ、さまざまな症状を引き起こす病原体が蔓延することになる。胃や腸から下痢や嘔吐が起こり、赤痢菌やサルモネラ菌、その他の消化器系感染症の原因菌によって引き起こされる。これは大きな問題だ。そして、すでに私たちはそれを目の当たりにしている。
イスラエルの空爆がガザの病院をさらに襲うとの警戒が高まるなか、ガザの医療システムとイスラエルによる主要病院の避難命令について、2人の医師に話を聞いた。ガザのアル・アハリ・アル・アラビ病院の整形外科部長であるファデル・ナイム医師は、イスラエルは「病院周辺を爆撃した」と言う。40年以上にわたってガザで救急外傷治療に携わってきたマッズ・ギルバート医師は、イスラエルが証拠もなしに軍事活動の疑惑を利用して市民病院を攻撃したことを非難する。”これはすべて、ガザのパレスチナ人に対する甚大な威嚇の一環なのです “とギルバート医師は言う。”パレスチナ人への具体的な連帯を示すために “エジプトから包囲された領土に入ろうとしているのだ。
This is how the Japanese government almost literally sweeps the problem of nuclear contamination under the rug. Note how the standard for safety has been relaxed to allow this to take place. Original article appears below the translation. While the Kishida administration is pushing for a “return to nuclear power,” the current situation in Fukushima […]
A rare NY Times story about the evolution of a care house and eventual mobile clinic for rough sleepers in Boston founded in the 1980s by feminist nurses in response to the way street people were treated by a paternalistic medical system. Told through the eyes of the clinic’s first doctor, he learned to listen, […]
Vets for Peace members have visited Okinawa in solidarity with the resistance movement against American bases. Will other VFP members uncritically supporting Putin or Nato spell an end to the anti-war movement itself and mean that Okinawans and Palestinians must henceforth go it alone? Pro Putin and pro American military positions on the part of some members of peace organizations might just bring that day closer.
The Kishida government has declared that all Japan taxpayers have a “responsibility” to support its policy of dramatically increasing military expenditures, accepting the premise that Japan’s neighbors are likely to launch an armed attack unless deterred from doing so. This marks the effective end of “New Capitalism.”
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