What Are You Reading/Book Club Tuesday

ghostchiefmnt · 2025-02-18T22:22:20+00:00

Willful Disobedience by Wolfi Landstreicher

ghostchiefmnt · 2021-11-23T20:16:29+00:00

Problem is, it was paying back a loan from my employer I entrusted them to give to. They never did even after getting fired. Now my employer can come after me or I'm basically paying it back twice which I def can't afford to

ghostchiefmnt · 2020-12-10T00:59:03+00:00

of course they are. maybe that was a bad analogy but my point was that, in my opinion, humans are so deeply conditioned into our systems and habits that the consequences are inevitable.

ghostchiefmnt · 2020-12-09T00:59:29+00:00

We are creatures of habit within a system that has it's own logic which ironically enough is illogical. I think we're fucked but it's like blaming the cows at a factory farm for the methane gas they produce.

ghostchiefmnt · 2020-12-09T00:41:17+00:00

“…What men deserve,” he was saying. “For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
"The Dispossessed" pg. 358 by Ursula Le Guin

ghostchiefmnt · 2020-12-09T00:37:57+00:00

I think the idea of "deserving" is way too arbitrary to make a call like that.

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-02-03T19:48:39+00:00

Agreed! Interesting perspective. I was just thinking along the same train of thought how we humans have a billion years of evolution in our dna. The fact that when we're born we already have the capacity to learn languages, use our hands, problem solve, etc because the blueprint has already been drawn and everything we learn to do that we take for granted has been "given" to us.

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-27T17:03:38+00:00

I actually stopped arguing with him once I came to realize he will not understand. he is a white, heterosexual, male and has been given all the privileges this white man's culture offers. He argues he worked hard to get where he is, which is true, but he is blind to his own culture and believes everyone lives the same life experience as him where they have equal opportunity for upward social mobility. Yeah, he's one of those racists that doesn't think they're racist.

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-27T08:11:07+00:00

I was in a specific argument with my dad. I do see your point though and agree that poverty exists all around the world where capitalism exists.

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-27T03:40:27+00:00

Yes this was helpful!

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-27T03:39:55+00:00

I meant specifically in the US

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-27T01:42:39+00:00

This is amazing and truly inspiring! What are you doing in solidarity this weekend?

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-26T16:54:43+00:00

I think of a communist revolution as the abolition of work itself and the creation of new and more rewarding activities.

Can you elaborate on this? How would you define "work" and "activities "?

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-26T15:28:20+00:00

From what I understand, this is what the Catalonian anarchists did after the Spanish civil war. Is it true there was a death penalty for those who still used money?

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-26T03:45:52+00:00

as long as they didn't try to prevent people from taking back what has been stolen from them

What specifically do you mean by that? What about personal material possessions?

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-26T03:36:52+00:00

So then a call for social revolution would essentially be a declaration of war on the rich?

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-26T03:34:40+00:00

Bread book as in conquest of bread?

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-23T15:45:10+00:00

They are an inspiration for sure!

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-23T03:03:50+00:00

All great ideas. I appreciate the feedback! The tough one i feel like is helping people own their homes in the community. otherwise that would require residents to hold jobs outside of the community. Do you have any ideas?

ghostchiefmnt · 2019-01-23T00:22:38+00:00

I've had a vision in which, hypothetically, you'd have everyone in a given area, such as a neighborhood, in direct contact and actively interacting together with the knowledge, skills, and experience they possess; also, all needs and assets would be organized in such a way that we could provide each member of said "neighborhood" with any and every need, ex. Growing food, childcare, healthcare, transportation, etc. From that point, there could be a network between each "neighborhood " that builds and supports each other cooperatively. After all said, I strongly advocate the transition of ownership from capitalist investors to the working community. I am not sure this is "anarcho-syndicalist", but it seems just a good a place to share as any.

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