Post 1494544 by feathersong@weirder.earth
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(DIR) Post #1489140 by amydentata@switter.at
2018-11-21T04:35:23Z
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The question isn't just "how do we dismantle capitalism" it is "how do we build a system that is immune to capitalism"
(DIR) Post #1489142 by amydentata@switter.at
2018-11-25T22:35:49Z
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We can't actually "abolish" capitalism. We can't get inside people's minds and force them to act how we want, absent a functional economic system. What we CAN do is build a system that innately resists capitalist takeover.
(DIR) Post #1489170 by supergrover6868@freespeechextremist.com
2018-11-26T00:04:13.578760Z
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@amydentata https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/guyot-the-tyranny-of-socialism
(DIR) Post #1490508 by thewumbles@freespeech.firedragonstudios.com
2018-11-26T01:28:33Z
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@amydentata let us know what you come up with
(DIR) Post #1491438 by amydentata@switter.at
2018-11-26T02:43:38Z
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@supergrover6868 you are extremely boring
(DIR) Post #1491447 by supergrover6868@freespeechextremist.com
2018-11-26T02:44:38.318439Z
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@amydentata Not any more then you
(DIR) Post #1494479 by supergrover6868@freespeechextremist.com
2018-11-26T05:44:40.081300Z
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@amydentata Your games are shit and you're ugly IRL
(DIR) Post #1494544 by feathersong@weirder.earth
2018-11-26T04:26:29Z
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@amydentata @decis asked me to repost this. I've had some thoughts on this lately. It's not remotely done, but I wanted to throw it out there. https://keybase.pub/feathersong/pol/barnacle-collective.html
(DIR) Post #1494545 by decis@weirder.earth
2018-11-26T04:47:03Z
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@feathersong @amydentata In (very oversimplified) summary, a barnacle collective interfaces with capitalist society as it is in order to co-exist with capitalism while parasitically co-opting its resources to provide mutual aid amongst its members, with the eventual goal of replacing capitalism.It proposes potential models for governance, federation, resource pooling, property, dissociating labour from wages, mobility, and technology that may need to be developed to facilitate those goals.
(DIR) Post #1494546 by somem@shigusegubu.club
2018-11-26T05:49:22.271511Z
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@decis @amydentata @feathersong I like the idea of barnacle collectives. It is the only coherent thing I have been able to think of that seems immediately doable with the potential to create a way of life that has some insulation from capitalism. I think individual collectives will have their own specific ways of governing/organizing themselves, but it could be really useful to come up with some really solidly thought out set of ideas and tools to start from. I think maybe a goal of any of the first collectives that try to function this way could be to test different strategies and systems for organization and collaboration and make available that learning so that other groups have somewhere to start from. If anything else like this exists I would be interested to know of it as well, my problem with most existing collective systems I have so far been trying to learn from is that the specificity of the way they do things is so established as to not be useful in a different situation by different people without complete buy in. It would be interesting to come up with some minimum common values/strategies that could be widely useable for different types of collectives and maybe facilitate the federation part of this system as well.
(DIR) Post #1933852 by amydentata@switter.at
2018-11-25T22:36:39Z
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It's not enough for individuals to resist capitalism. The system—a system, some system—must resist capitalism as well.
(DIR) Post #1933853 by amydentata@switter.at
2018-11-25T22:41:39Z
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This is the process via which mercantilism overtook feudalism. Via which capitalism overtook mercantilism. In each step, a new system emerged through a combination of individual acts and the influence of existing systems. Those existing systems had changed day-to-day material necessity so much that they became weak. How can we make sure what follows capitalism is better rather than worse?