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by _oghd 3y ago
in the original article.... I quote: >Towards the end of Technofeudalism, Varoufakis canvasses some proposals, drawn from his earlier book Another Now (2020), for how to address these issues. These include ending the cloudalists faux “fr
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by _oghd 3y ago
> nor is Yannis Varoufakis even remotely advocating eliminating the notion of private property ownership. uh, yes, he does. > I try to create a vision of a liberal, socialist society that is not based on private property but does use
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by _oghd 3y ago
capitalism is private ownership of property and the exchange of labor for wage to produce commodities with said capital. capitalism is not just "free market economy," where the natural opposite as you supoose being "central
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by _oghd 3y ago
can you elaborate on the difference between your definitions of distributism and socialism?
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by _oghd 3y ago
when capitalism sublimates everything into commodity form, it's important to be reminded of the water we fish swim in. Fun or Play can be considered useless if not being commoditized or sold, but of course they are essential. Byung-Chu
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by _oghd 4y ago
personally, i adopt the marxist analysis of capitalism being a particular mode of production where private productive property is owned and controlled by the owners/shareholders and labor is exchanged for wages. if we are going to make
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by _oghd 4y ago
longevity? uh... no. capitalism is very young in human society. for clarity, feudalism lasted twice as long as capitalism has currently existed. and while competition has dominated the scientific and cultural narrative for a while, that&#
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by _oghd 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/667/
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by _oghd 4y ago
> The diatribe against capitalism is thus unnecessary that would be true if you had no understanding surplus value . i highly recommend you at least try and read the first few chapters of Marx's Capital, which was quoted directly i
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by _oghd 4y ago
Deleuze has a good really short essay called Postscript on Societies of Control[1] on the machinic nature of capitalism. maybe we are saying the same thing, and I absolutely agree that Americans have a fundamentally individualist viewpoint.
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by _oghd 4y ago
Plato said the same thing about writing/reading killing people's ability to remember/speak. > If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that wh
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by _oghd 4y ago
the fact that you have to have owned a business to be allowed to have an opinion about working productivity to so fucking telling about capitalist ideology
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by _oghd 4y ago
my primary keyboards are a planck for my personal desktop and ergodox infinity for work. i guess if i used the planck every day i'd get used to it but i think that the braces/brackets/parens are common enough they deserve the
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by _oghd 4y ago
i believe in gift economy and don't agree that extending credit even at favorable rates to the global south is fair. even in your description here you use euphemism to cover the forceful removal of what you in the same paragraph as &#x
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by _oghd 4y ago
wow, astute observation. i'm sure the author never realized that life is painful, or that the capitalist mode of production requires productive labor in a free market in order to survive. i'm sure they didn't bother to write
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by _oghd 4y ago
exactly. check this out: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%... see the inflection date? end of 2007. guess when that comic[0] was published 2007-12-15 mic drop [0] https:/&#x2F
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by _oghd 4y ago
it has that xkcd comic. no joke.
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by _oghd 4y ago
Progress is dead! Long live the plane of immanence! history doesn't progress in a forward arrow. just like evolution, it explodes outwards in every direction all at once, driven by desiring machines. humans, corporations, states, anima
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by _oghd 4y ago
Marx had a lot to say about this over 150 years ago... the answer lies in that technology absolutely does make us more productive. the benefits of that reduction in cost, however, tend to move upward rather than downward, at least when it
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by _oghd 4y ago
if you want to indulge in this feeling more, read some Mark Fisher. Capitalist Realism , or Ghosts of My Life
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by _oghd 5y ago
collective ownership is the alternative. abolition of private property. it's the core idea of anarchist and anti-capitalist thought.
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by _oghd 5y ago
The essay "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze[1] has some more great reflections on cybernetics as they have been utilized in capitalism [1] https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012
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by _oghd 5y ago
99.9% of products aren't needed in any way by anybody. 90% of products are created to fill an artificial demand manufactured by advertising in the first place. these products and their manufacturing comes at a massive carbon cost for m