Critique of Capital Logic and Construction of Post-industrial Utopia—Comments on André Gorz's Theory of Post-industrial Socialism
Gorz argued that the capitalist society,characterized bytotalalienation,wasthe capitalist system that caused general crisis.The capitalist political party is a symbol of the capitalist centralization of power,and the traditional view that micro-electronic technology promotes employment is a typical manifestation of capitalist anti-labor ideology.Social discrimination represented by gender discrimination is an important presentationof capitalist ideology that capitalism can realize the division of laborand transfer the contradiction between labor and capital.Based on the demand of constructing a utopia of post-industrial socialism,Goz believed that we should establish guaranteed minimum income programs,abolish wage labor,and replace it with welfareor compensate for exploitation.Gorz criticized Marx's theory of class and put forward the concept of"new proletariat".In his opinion,the new proletariat is considered as arevolutionary subject,and it is proposed to go beyond the self-sufficiency of the commune and the compulsion of the state,to achieve the transformation of work ethics and the creation of autonomous space,and to realize a shift from class politics to the politics of radical discourse.Gorz combined local autonomy with domestic integration,local governance and state planning,and tried to build a new mode of production and state power structure.The utopia of post-industrial socialism was envisioned as a dual society,with an emphasis on small,decentralized communities in which people could develop harmoniously.Gorz's theory of post-industrial socialism is essentially a reflection on the critique of capitalist modernity,whichreveals the global crisis caused by the capitalist modernitywith the global expansion of the logic of capital at its core.With profound effects of reality and foresight,this can shed important theoretical and practical lightson the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.