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Episode: 229. Capitalist Manufacturing // Manufacturing Communism – Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez)
Pub date: 2023-02-05

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Part 1 –– We welcome returning champ Nick Chavez – mechanical engineer, marxist political economist – for a long conversation about his new essay examining the real nitty-gritty aspects of production and labor, knowledge and management. Time to step down from the ivory tower and onto the shop floor. We talk extensively about different modes of manufacturing and the stratification of technical expertise within capitalist production – and what needs to be kept, changed, and abolished in a transition to communist production.

••• Nick’s essay: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/field-notes/Technical-Expertise-and-Communist-Production

••• Nick’s new blog: https://designformanufracture.wordpress.com/

••• Nick’s new twitter: https://twitter.com/DFManufracture

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