Mutual A
@mutual-a
he/him, anarcho-spreadsheetist in his ✨popular front era ✨ i write things to change minds. learning the hard way, but at least im learning. 📍 AUS
fascinating bit of overlap. the book which did more to inspire Vladmir Lenin than any other work of writing, including anything by Marx, Nikolai Chernyshevesky's What Is To Be Done, was first (poorly) translated into English by American individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker
wish fisher lived to see engagement with his work by a former professional CATO institute libertarian. that said he engaged with the work of figures like DeLanda and Braudel back in the CCRU days so maybe not as hostile as many might think web.archive.org/web/20250217...
>capitalists invest a trillion+ dollars into a potential service >encourage the development of free competitors thats basically as good read marx lel
reading Lenin's Brother by Philip Pomper. on forum dot effectivealturism dot org dot ru circa the 1860s, they're currently debating the QALYs of assassinating the Tsar versus going to the people
people talk about far-sighted bakunin was in his arguments against marx, but don't mention proudhon's response to him (i am too busy to join your writing collective, also don't become overly dogmatic with regards to economics) www.marxists.org/reference/su...
the conclusion to capital is dead by @mckenziewark.bsky.social is a short review of The Young Karl Marx which captures this orientation
finally reading hardin's tragedy of the commons for the first time and his explanation for why pastures haven't already been exhausted was that people were too busy warring, poaching and having their cattle die of disease to overburden them
i don't know where the phrase originated, but i think it gained currency as a knee jerk response to shallow techno optimism wedontagree.net/technically-...
one particularly notable difference is that gillis' explanation for why postmodernism took off was in part it helped stitch together an coalition of underdogs, as opposed to rockhill painting it as something injected into a left that otherwise would have held together
did you see the aella writeup of the experiment she ran on her social media site aella.substack.com/p/blue-butto...
woke 2 is making mainstream economics explicitly left wing, people are saying wedontagree.net/essays/what-...
chuffed that i got this out half a week before samantha's essay that reaches similar conclusions with regards to "woke 2" being about serious engagement with our intellectual heritage and assumptions
"woke 1" was the result of insights that were once confined to marginal activist and academic spaces becoming widespread. the only way that "woke 2" will be more consequential than the first round is through further insight that gives people greater *impact*, not more awareness of how bad things are
it's certainly not that liberals secretly have all the answers, but that there are subtle limits to leftist thought that are rarely recognized and that more liberals involved will force the issue in a way i believe would be extremely productive
minneapolis was interesting not just because it was an amazing example of direct action getting the goods, but also because it saw wholehearted support from liberals both online and on-the-ground in a way that can build trust necessary for productive *conversations*
eh there's plenty of non pastoral solarpunk, some of the first images i saw was of the urbanist variety like below i think the failure to depict the transition is far more important because i think there is considerable political possibilities in renewables and batteries that could get squandered
this seems along the lines of bruce sterling's attention conservation notice kcyb.eu/posts/attent...
dunno if this study replicated, to say nothing of holding up 2 decades on, but if so, lmao
looking at the zoomer specific data i wonder how much of it is just an artifact of them coming of age news.gallup.com/poll/389792/...
there isn't a "spike" according to gallup data lololol news.gallup.com/poll/656708/...