Karl Marx was convinced he had decoded the secret engine of history. He was wrong—but not in the way most people think. The problem was never that Marx cared about injustice; it was that he built an unfalsifiable doctrine, mistook economic mechanics for universal law, and envisioned a revolution to be carried out by a class that no longer exists.

In Marxism and AI, Boris Kriger dismantles the philosophical, economic, and political foundations of Marxism—not to defend capitalism, but to show that both the disease and the old cure have been overtaken by something neither Marx nor Adam Smith could have imagined: artificial intelligence capable of managing production, predicting demand, and distributing resources without markets, money, or central committees.

Drawing on his peer-reviewed article “Marxism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, Kriger traces the arc from Marx’s nineteenth-century factory floor to the algorithmic economy of the near future. Along the way, he examines why every attempt to implement Marxist theory produced not liberation but a new ruling class; why the proletariat has quietly dissolved into knowledge workers, gig laborers, and pension-fund shareholders; why modern populism is the new opium of the people; and how a staged, non-violent transition from market capitalism to an economy of abundance might actually work—if we solve the hardest question of all: who programs the machine that programs the world?

Part intellectual history, part philosophical argument, part blueprint for a future beyond ideology, this book is for anyone who suspects that the old maps no longer match the territory—and wants to see what the new territory looks like.