Abstract:
Purpose/Significance The essence of Marx’s technology criticism is the answer to the unity between history and logic of labor alienation. Design/Methodology Marx, taking the influence of technology on production process as a clue, discussed the dialectic development of the relationship between technology and production process. The core of the dialectic development is to explain the capital logic of technological development and its alienation to laborers by the law of surplus value. Marx’s fundamental pursuit is the liberation and the all-round development of laborers. Findings/ConclusionsThe dialectic development concept of Marx’s technology criticism contains the negation of negation, which indicates that the relationship between laborers and technology will usher in dialectical negation in the new era, and the laborers will eventually restore their dominance in technology. The contemporary value of Marx’s dialectic view of technology criticism is to re-establish the laborers’ dominance in technology, comply with the functioning conditions of the objective law of social development in response to technology, and promote the inclusive development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.