From capital’s scramble for land resources in the steam era, to its construction of geographical landscape in the electrical era, and to its reconstruction of cyberspace in the Internet era, the process of capital profitability has always been accompanied by the development of science and technology and the expansion of human production and living space. From the perspective of capital profitability, from labor commodity to social division of labor, from fragmented labor and standardized labor to flexible employment, the historical evolution of space reconstruction is accompanied by the whole process of capital binding and controlling workers. At the current stage, capital is committed to creating traffic and saving labor time through the reconstruction of cyberspace, so as to increase more free time for people to use cyberspace. At the same time, capital exerts more cruel and hidden exploitation of workers through cyberspace. Since then, cyberspace has made workers completely lose the object of resistance.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Zheng Yifan

From:China Review of Political Economy.2023.No.2.