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Part 1 \u2013\u2013 We welcome returning champ Nick Chavez \u2013 mechanical engineer, marxist political economist \u2013 for a long conversation about his new essay examining the real nitty-gritty aspects of production and labor, knowledge and management. Time to step down from the ivory tower and onto the shop floor. We talk extensively about different modes of manufacturing and the stratification of technical expertise within capitalist production \u2013 and what needs to be kept, changed, and abolished in a transition to communist production. \n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022 Nick\u2019s essay: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/field-notes/Technical-Expertise-and-Communist-Production \n\u2022\u2022\u2022 Nick\u2019s new blog: https://designformanufracture.wordpress.com/ \n\u2022\u2022\u2022 Nick\u2019s new twitter: https://twitter.com/DFManufracture\n\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \n\nGrab TMK gear: https://www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ \n\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)