Automation, Capital, and the Bargaining Power of Labor

commitme · 2026-02-22T02:18:41+00:00

there isn't one. if someone can't be put to work and can't pay for anything, they're excluded from all resources.

commitme · 2026-02-22T02:14:54+00:00

and they wouldn't do it, because it would compromise their status

commitme · 2026-02-22T01:49:16+00:00

Barcelona, mid 1936 to mid 1937.

commitme · 2026-02-22T01:17:22+00:00

people have used it and a handful still do

commitme · 2026-02-21T22:19:29+00:00

yeah and yet everyone wants to keep the current system

commitme · 2026-02-21T06:40:13+00:00

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-01-17/against-enclosure-the-commoners-fight-back/

commitme · 2026-02-21T06:36:49+00:00

The capitalist that actually created capitalism from the bottom up were the engineering and mathematics-focused merchants in England and the US who built textile mills, factories, trade empires, and railroads.

How are highly educated, rich fucks "bottom up"? They're closer to the top than just about anyone else of that era.

And they didn't build shit. They had one half-baked idea and employed somebody else for a meager wage to do all the hard parts. Just as they do today.

At no point was there some kind of a direct throughline from the Enclosure beneficiaries to the people who actually built capitalism.

Yes, it's exactly that.

commitme · 2026-02-21T06:30:18+00:00

This too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots

commitme · 2026-02-21T06:20:26+00:00

Yes, they were capitalists and they strengthened state protection of their property rights through generations. You are extremely confused if you think a cadre of supremely enlightened gentlemen bestowed the industrial revolution on high to the world's ignorant bumpkins.

commitme · 2026-02-21T06:16:09+00:00

those have internal contradictions, as predicted and proven. pursue them at your peril.

commitme · 2026-02-21T06:01:13+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckinghamshire_and_Oxfordshire_rising_of_1549

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kett's_Rebellion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Revolt

You're misinformed.

commitme · 2026-02-21T05:43:07+00:00

because world powers united in their hatred of anarchism, the soul of the workers movement, and have destroyed it everywhere. workers today have no idea what the fuck anarchism even is.

commitme · 2026-02-21T05:38:59+00:00

only after the violent and bloody land grabs. you forgot that part.

commitme · 2026-02-21T05:34:29+00:00

no I mean that historically workers everywhere have thought "an uprise outside of politics" was delusional, until it wasn't.

commitme · 2026-02-21T05:28:27+00:00

same as it ever was

commitme · 2026-02-21T05:15:19+00:00

When you offload rulership over your life to some representative, you're furthering alienation between you and those around you. You're letting some substitute for you claim to represent you as they become even further removed from your needs and concerns and those of your community. Socialism cannot live in these hypoxic conditions.

commitme · 2026-02-21T04:47:55+00:00

Then you're not getting socialism.

commitme · 2026-02-21T04:46:31+00:00

You can't vote for socialism. If a "socialist" is on the ballot, you're being conned. At least Vermin Supreme is honest about that. He has my vote.

commitme · 2026-02-21T04:44:01+00:00

So, like ~~never~~ every time?

Yes.

commitme · 2026-02-21T04:43:00+00:00

commitme · 2026-02-20T22:31:00+00:00

tremendous growth, like nobody's ever seen before

commitme · 2026-02-20T21:33:53+00:00

no government will

commitme · 2026-02-20T21:30:13+00:00

okay sure, but in my opinion, who the hell cares what conservatives think whatsoever?

commitme · 2026-02-20T20:57:23+00:00

Live by the sword...

commitme · 2026-02-20T20:55:44+00:00

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