Abstract
This article discusses some aspects of automation and digitization for capitalist production since the arrival of Industry 4.0, with an emphasis on the issue of capital accumulation in the form of value (Wertform). These phenomena are approached from the Marxian perspective of productive labor, focusing on the relationship between labor, technology and value, under the inflection of the contradictions established between live labor and labor work in the digital age of this 21st century. The neuralgic issue is how dead labor “gains life” with the rise of robots endowed with artificial intelligence, and how an autonomous force subjugates live labor while producing its progressive disposal in the form of complex contradictions immanent to automated production/scanned. The methodology used was bibliographical research, regarding the historically accumulated theoretical debate, and also documental research for data collection from secondary sources.
Keywords:
Marx; Industry 4.0; Labor; Technology; Value