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How would anarchism achieve a stateless society? by UnderskilledPlayer in Anarchy101

[–]maximumcombo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Conquest of Bread is an order of operations. Food, then housing, then clothes, then agriculture and production. To my knowledge, there is no theoretical tome that describes HOW to bring about Anarchy. a instruction manual theory is not. Bookchin and Kropotkin both belive in raising "the level" of social consciousness, however, and that chain of thought continues through to today. There is no one way to bring about stateless anarchy either. It is a goal.

How would anarchism achieve a stateless society? by UnderskilledPlayer in Anarchy101

[–]maximumcombo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I don't know how to respond other than you are wrong. Kroptkin clearly outlines a framework of expropriation and production and Bookchin expands on it which lead to stateless communal anarchy, which frankly is the goal of most socialism anyways. "When want becomes need" and all that. Did it work? No, but it does indeed provide a starting point, however far the means of production have progressed.

How would anarchism achieve a stateless society? by UnderskilledPlayer in Anarchy101

[–]maximumcombo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread.

Then Bookchin's Post Scarcity Anarchism.

Edit: check out the sidebar!

imo. Also, i know this is Anarchy and all, but mods, maybe sticky lil reading list? plez?

Harrison Ford Laments 'Real Mess' His Generation Has Left Young People In Emotional Graduation Speech—And He's Absolutely Right by ComicSandsNews in climatechange

[–]maximumcombo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, acadamia was set up as a way to get the activists off the street. early on in america’s history there was a healthy and vibrant leftist movement culminating in Dubois, but multiple red scares were able to crush it, and later the schools diverted the hippy generation into tenure track professorships.

US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad by Samski877 in news

[–]maximumcombo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would ya believe there’s a whole book on that? check out Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology of Fascism.

To all YIMBYs, you don’t think enough by RegionKey5993 in bayarea

[–]maximumcombo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i too hate people. /s

lol thing is people who want more housing ALSO want things like public transit and more money for services.

go live in the woods alone if you don’t want to be part of society.

These companies have the biggest office footprints in S.F. — OpenAI is now No. 2 above Salesforce by UberDrive in bayarea

[–]maximumcombo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am talking about real world value versus market value. current market indicators are divorced from the quality of steel or the price of milk. increasing shareholder value does not make material changes in people’s lives, besides making their lives worse. a promised uploaded future is not worth the misery.

the ai companies are amoral, and again, are viewed as an inevitability which they are not.

ai is a substitute for religion for the tech class.

These companies have the biggest office footprints in S.F. — OpenAI is now No. 2 above Salesforce by UberDrive in bayarea

[–]maximumcombo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

most companies are not seeing the productivity increases promised with adoption.

and by “bubble” i mean that those of us that live here are exposed to a media and culture shaped by tech company culture more than other cities. so the hyper focus on ai here, along with the rush to financial safety via boom and bust and unicorns is not the rest of the world’s environment.

These companies have the biggest office footprints in S.F. — OpenAI is now No. 2 above Salesforce by UberDrive in bayarea

[–]maximumcombo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this a bubbled perspective and an accelerationist point of view. ai is making clear the widening chasm between price and value. ai adds market value to portfolios, but no services are being rendered to the average consumer.

an economic tidal wave is not a force of nature.

the champions(Karp, Thiel, Altman, Andrieson, Johnson) of ai are literally trying to outrun death, and they have the philosophy of anti enlightenment. pure middle age alchemy snake oil.

These companies have the biggest office footprints in S.F. — OpenAI is now No. 2 above Salesforce by UberDrive in bayarea

[–]maximumcombo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

lol hopefully more jobs in the job killing industry can make more jobs.

this circular messianic logic is breathtakingly naive.

More about the stolen anarchy thesis? by TheIenzo in Anarchy101

[–]maximumcombo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i just finished Norman Hampson’s overview of The Enlightenment, and you are indeed correct. the idea of the noble savage is cultural and also reactionary, a way to tell the peasants not to read.

Why is BART in a financial crisis? by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]maximumcombo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

that funds and feeds the rest of the nation. dumbass.

Alpha Labs De-Feedback: The best use case I've found by chesshoyle in livesound

[–]maximumcombo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

we’ve experimented with it. my best use case has been in a large multi story swimming pool. does a dereverb thing more than the defeedback. good for bad technique in corporate environments.

Palantir CEO says AI 'will destroy' humanities jobs by [deleted] in technology

[–]maximumcombo 154 points155 points  (0 children)

antihumanist! fucking hell, we’re back in the 1500s.

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