General intellect - crucial factor in production, according to Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

; a combination of technological expertise and social intellect, or general social knowledge - increasing importance of machine

Machine

A machine manages power to accomplish a task, examples include, a mechanical system, a computing system, an electronic system, and a molecular machine. In common usage, the meaning is that of a device having parts that perform or assist in performing any type of work...

ry in social organization.

See:
Paolo Virno, "General Intellect" in Lessico Postfordista, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2001.
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpvirno10.htm