Machine and progress

Or, machine and social progress.
An 1828 caricature by cartoonist William Heath from the series ‘March of Intellect’ depicts a giant automaton advancing with long strides and holding a broom to sweep away a dusty mass of clerks, clergy and bureaucrats, representing figures of the old order and obsolete laws.
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/on-the-origins-of-marxs-general-intellectAs a campaign for progress in both literacy and technology, the March of Intellect was part of the so-called ‘Machinery Question’, that is, the public debate in England on the massive replacement of workers by industrial machines in the first half of the nineteenth century.-- Matteo Pasquinelli: On the origins of Marx’s general intellect / Radical Philosophyhttps://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/on-the-origins-of-marxs-general-intellect