When AI actually validates Marx and it is not what you think.

About LLMs

Let’s start with this:

LLMs and their technology is actually a marvel of human ingenuity.

Just the fact that we can actually speak to a model and it can predict an entire paragraph, word after word, token after token, and this mathematical prediction will follow instructions and actually make sense is already remarkable.

Now, let’s address the elephant in the room: AI is not taking your job or my job. Owners and executives are desperate to replace us, because they hate the fact that they need us.

Marx on the Capitalist - Proletariat relationship

I keep thinking about the basics. When I first read Marx’s analysis of the relationship between the class of people who own the companies and those of us who actually work at them, it clicked. What he understood was that workers and owners have a relationship of a fundamentally contradictory nature—we exist only to make them richer. In his own precise words:

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.

Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Now, I look at what happened in the corporate world this past year, due to AI.

AI Psychotic C-suites and founders, and their hate for workers

I find it both frustrating and boring to hear the same talking points again and again, and the predictions over the past two years were always the same:
“AI will replace white collar jobs.” However, the prediction was not always that, and for this reason I find myself looking back many years.

Back in 2017, I was doing academic research on AI (the old-school neural network type) and its impact on a specific industry. At that time, the consensus was that AI might replace some jobs like blue-collar and trade jobs; however, creatives were safe since machines could never replace the human spirit. This might not “feel” true right now, but I think it holds true even today. It’s not that GenAI cannot create new things; it is created not to. It predicts the next probable token for its own dataset. However, what changed is the appetite of executives and managers for low-quality, fast, generic, and tasteless work, combined with the constant hunger for increased profit margins.

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; —the sixth day.

And by the seventh day Man created Machine in His own image; Then Man blessed it and said to it, “Be tokefull and finetuned, and fill the processor units and subdue the memory”.

And thus came the predictions of the “job-apocalypse”. Not because it was true, but because for them it was necessary. To understand why it was necessary, I have to go back half a decade, to February 2020. With a cough that became a pandemic.

Covid and the Rise of the Working Class Consciousness
An optimistic spirit (like me) would argue that a pandemic (like Covid) would be a great opportunity for people to stick together in solidarity, not divided under a common enemy and purpose. Ooooh, how wrong I was!

Despite all the societal issues we faced, one thing stood out: people realized how bullshit most of our jobs were, and that we could imagine our work differently and on working-class terms. And that killed executives deep inside. They could not stand that workers could actually demand something or they could just leave. They imagined a more purposeful work, better conditions and… work-from-home, those anti-capitalist infidels. For a brief moment in time it seemed that things at work would be for the people and not for the “one-percenters”. Ooooh, how wrong I was… again!

Execs, c-suites, managers, shareholders, and all of these weird, lifeless, joyless creatures were waiting with their hatred kept inside. They let it out on some digital squares like LinkedIn with corny posts on “back to office”, but it was not enough to make them happy. Employees tasted that they had some leverage, and these creatures were not going to let it go.

After a few years, we saw the arrival of their Deus ex Machina. GenAI!

They loved it; this was their actual payback time, to get rid of these pesky employees, now that our Machine God is here. I started to see the layoffs in the news, counting them by the tens of thousands each time. So much that people created “Layoff Tracker Websites”, for this purpose!

“Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge.”, all tech bros cried out loud and fell on their knees, praised their LLM Overlord and vibe coded another start-up, trying to escape permanent poverty… to escape decadence!

Permanent Underclass
Tech bros and executives are convinced that, like with every hyped technology, the early adopters will be the winners and the rest of us will suffer. For this reason they have created the notion of Permanent Underclass. Just another excuse to feel better than the rest of the untokenized people who will “become economically worthless” because they cannot do anything that the AI can’t do better. They fantasize about being the Arasakas of the new AGI world, while the rest of us have the role of the batteries for their own Matrix.

My Personal Experience

I must confess that it is easier when I only heard this in the news. Nothing hits hard like reality. When I actually heard the first stories about people I personally knew facing layoffs—entire departments being dismantled because one big client decided to internally “just let AI” do their work. When I see middle managers vibe-coding their way out of needing employees. When I watch owners express this eerie satisfaction, realizing they might need only 5% of their workforce if things get automated, because they want to “get things done faster” or “imagine how much fewer employees we will need if this was automated”. I have spoken with middle managers who hate to hire new employees to cover those leaving—usually because middle managers are toxic by nature.

I have seen the disdain on their faces when no one is looking.
I have read between the lines.
They hate talking to “lesser” people.

They hate being dependent on people to make money.

Conclusion

Owners, executives, shareholders, and other similar fucktards know that they depend on their workers. Without them, nothing is done and that freaks the fuck out of them! This is why they spent the Reagan/Thatcher era pushing deregulation and privatization. They need to keep us divided, and they can never, NEVER let us realize that without us, everything stops. Workers should never internalize the fact that owners need workers more than workers need them, and that is the brilliant, insidious thing about Neoliberalism.

AI is their chance to get free from the workers (blue, white, purple or any other fucking color they invented to divide us), because they know that Marx was right and this is why, in every chance they get, they try to kill anything related to true socialism or communism. They are aware that it is true and truth spreads like wildfire.

So, don’t worry, AI will just be disruption. We can overcome however bad it will get. The more solidarity people show each other, the quicker and easier this storm will be.

References

C-Suites on the demise of the white collar proletariat

1. “AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath” — Jim VandeHei & Mike Allen, Axios, May 28, 2025. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
2. “Why Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spends so much time warning of AI’s potential dangers” — CBS News / 60 Minutes, November 17, 2025. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warning-of-ai-potential-dangers-60-minutes-transcript/
3. “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will reshape society, acknowledges risks” — ABC News, March 16, 2023. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ai-reshape-society-acknowledges/story?id=97897122
4. “Sam Altman — Lex Fridman Podcast #367” — Lex Fridman, March 25, 2023. https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-3/
5. “Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he cut 4,000 support roles because of AI” — The Seattle Times, September 2, 2025. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-says-he-cut-4000-support-roles-because-of-ai/
6. “Google CEO warns of more layoffs in 2024 amid artificial intelligence push” — CBS News, January 18, 2024. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-layoffs-2024-sundar-pichai/
7. “Up to 30 percent of some Microsoft code is now written by AI” — Tom Warren, The Verge, April 30, 2025. https://www.theverge.com/news/658584/up-to-30-percent-of-some-microsoft-code-is-now-written-by-ai
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10. “IBM CEO says AI will impact white-collar jobs first” — CNBC, August 22, 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/ibm-ceo-says-ai-will-impact-white-collar-jobs-first.html
11. “Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Replace Some Coders With AI, Which Might Prove Tricky” — Kit Eaton, Inc., January 28, 2025. https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/mark-zuckerberg-plans-to-replace-some-coders-with-ai-which-might-prove-tricky/91140118
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14. “Shopify CEO: Prove AI can’t do jobs before asking for more headcount” — Annie Palmer, CNBC, April 7, 2025. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/shopify-ceo-prove-ai-cant-do-jobs-before-asking-for-more-headcount.html
15. “Klarna CEO says AI can do the job of 700 workers” — CBS News, March 5, 2024. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/klarna-ceo-ai-chatbot-replacing-workers-sebastian-siemiatkowski/
16. “Jensen Huang says AI is ending era of teaching kids to code” — Brandon Vigliarolo, The Register, February 27, 2024. https://www.theregister.com/software/2024/02/27/jensen-huang-says-ai-is-ending-era-of-teaching-kids-to-code/984196
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People Outcry over AI

1. “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter” — Future of Life Institute, March 22, 2023. https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
2. “Whistle-Blower Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits Over Safety’” — The New York Times, October 5, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/technology/facebook-whistleblower-frances-hauen.html
3. “SAG-AFTRA Goes on Strike Against Video Game Companies Over AI” — Variety, July 26, 2024. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sag-aftra-strike-video-game-companies-ai-1236078599/
4. “Hollywood Actors Strike Over AI” — The New York Times, July 14, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/television/sag-aftra-strike.html
5. “OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit After Sam Altman’s Ouster” — Wired, November 20, 2023. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-threaten-quit-sam-altman-ouster/
6. “OpenAI’s Jan Leike Resigns, Says Safety Culture ‘Taken a Backseat to Shiny Products’” — The Verge, May 17, 2024. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24159095/openai-jan-leike-superalignment-sam-altman-ai-safety
7. “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence” — Right to Warn, June 4, 2024. https://righttowarn.ai/
8. “OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Announces She’s Leaving the Company” — TechCrunch, September 25, 2024. https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/openai-cto-mira-murati-says-shes-leaving-the-company/
9. “Why I Quit OpenAI” — Daniel Kokotajlo, LessWrong, April 2024. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2cjq4FkKF8kAZgWqL/why-i-quit-openai
10. “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges Congress to Regulate AI” — Bloomberg, May 16, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/sam-altman-openai-congress-regulate-artificial-intelligence
11. “Google CEO Sundar Pichai Faces Congressional Grilling” — The Verge, December 11, 2023. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/11/23984831/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-congressional-testimony
12. “Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes” — TechCrunch, August 14, 2024. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/video-of-eric-schmidt-blaming-remote-work-for-googles-woes-mysteriously-vanishes/
13. “Former Google CEO Apologizes for Blaming Remote Workers for AI Failure” — Futurism, August 15, 2024. https://futurism.com/the-byte/former-google-ceo-apologizes-blaming-remote-workers-ai
14. “‘You are a war profiteer’: Microsoft staff disrupts AI CEO’s 50th anniversary speech over Israel military links” — Malay Mail, April 5, 2025. https://www.malaymail.com/news/tech-gadgets/2025/04/05/you-are-a-war-profiteer-microsoft-staff-disrupts-ai-ceos-50th-anniversary-speech-over-israel-military-links/171988
15. “Billionaire AI overlord Sam Altman ambushed onstage” — The Daily Beast, November 7, 2025. https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-ai-overlord-sam-altman-ambushed-onstage/
16. “Mark Zuckerberg got booed at UFC fight” — Sporting News, March 9, 2026. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/entertainment/news/mark-zuckerberg-got-booed-ufc-fight/c8f7aa0863ac52aac2758767
17. “Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in open letter” — TechCrunch, February 27, 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/employees-at-google-and-openai-support-anthropics-pentagon-stand-in-open-letter/
18. “I checked out London’s biggest ever anti-AI protest” — MIT Technology Review, March 2, 2026. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/02/1133814/i-checked-out-londons-biggest-ever-anti-ai-protest/amp/
19. “Waymo Car Set on Fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown” — TechCrunch, February 10, 2024. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/10/waymo-car-fire-san-francisco/
20. “Protesters disrupt Google I/O 2024 keynote over Project Nimbus” — The Verge, May 14, 2024. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24161863/google-i-o-climate-protest
21. “Data Center Watch — Report on Project Cancellations” — Data Center Watch, 2025–2026. https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report
22. “People are protesting AI data centers and it’s scrambling political lines” — Iowa Public Radio, January 26, 2026. https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2026-01-26/people-are-protesting-ai-data-centers-and-its-scrambling-political-lines
23. “xAI’s Memphis data center raises environmental justice concerns” — The New York Times, June 15, 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/xai-memphis-turbines.html