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by dragonwriter 2058 days ago
> How would Marxists define the “means of production” in 2020?

"The tools (instruments) and the raw material (subject) you use to create something are the means of production." [0]

> Doesn't anyone with an internet connection and a computer technically "own the means of production"?

A portion of them, similar to a physical laborer who owns his own hand tools. And, similar to that, its the whole means of production for some goods, and a tiny subset of other goods, and somewhere in between for lots.

[0] https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm