“The combination of automation, logistical command and financialization that enabled the mid-twentieth century’s “cybernetic revolution” has raised to a new intensity a fundamental dynamic of capitalism – its drive to simultaneously induct populations into waged labour and expel them as un- or under-employed superfluous to its increasingly machinic systems. Digitization has accelerated this “moving contradiction” (Marx 1973: 106), creating a cyclonic process that, on the one hand, envelopes the globe in networked supply chains and agile production systems, making labour available to capital on a planetary scale, and, on the other, drives towards development of adept automata and algorithmic software that renders such labour redundant. In this whirlwind, the traditional, Euro-centrically conceived, stereotypically male “working class” of the global northwest is disintegrating into both a strata of technology professionals, tending to identification with digital capital, though shot through with hacker proclivities and, a vast pool of un-, under- and vulnerably employed labour, transnational and feminized, living the shadow lands between work and worklessness that has always defined the proletarian condition. Dispossessed labour evicted from the land by ongoing primitive accumulation in Asia, Latin and America and pouring into new industrial enclaves is unevenly combined with workers expelled from an emergent futuristic accumulation based on automated production, software-agentic circulation and algorithmic financialization. Divided across border-policed wage-zones of a world-market, the fractions of this global proletariat are frequently in tension with one another, even though subject to common exploitation by capital: thus, though the technical composition of class is apparent, its political composition rife with contradictions. Nonetheless, the networked, no-future ‘take the square’ risings of 2011-13 may be harbingers of the resistant movements of “universal labour” tasked with working itself out of a job, toiling to develop a system of robots and networks, networked robots and robot networks in which the human is increasingly surplus to requirements.”