Good questions, Zach. I am up to my eyeballs so I can't join your bookclub. You might consider not only publishing your eventual many-authored article on your blog but also in the International Journal of the Commons https://thecommonsjournal.org/. I think those folks would be interested in your (pl) ideas.
To be perfectly blunt, the way I see it is if some kind of “revolution” goes down the left will be fighting in the cities against the oligarchs and the right in the countryside. I am actually fine with commies taking the cities, if you agree to leave us alone in the countryside to have shops without wage slaves, guns, and churches.
Both the left and right tend to think in one size fits all terms, but I think we need to be more creative than that.
I would also add that I think the distance between Kropotkin's Farms, Fields and Factories is less far from the original vision of America with small farms, shop keepers and local town meetings than either side is willing to admit.
I agree. We probably have more in common than we don’t. We may use different names for certain phenomenon but we are likely talking about similar things.
Good questions, Zach. I am up to my eyeballs so I can't join your bookclub. You might consider not only publishing your eventual many-authored article on your blog but also in the International Journal of the Commons https://thecommonsjournal.org/. I think those folks would be interested in your (pl) ideas.
Dude I am not a commie like you, but I will fight these "late capitalist" or whatever you want to call these assholes side by side with you.
Deal
Handshake sir.
To be perfectly blunt, the way I see it is if some kind of “revolution” goes down the left will be fighting in the cities against the oligarchs and the right in the countryside. I am actually fine with commies taking the cities, if you agree to leave us alone in the countryside to have shops without wage slaves, guns, and churches.
Both the left and right tend to think in one size fits all terms, but I think we need to be more creative than that.
I would also add that I think the distance between Kropotkin's Farms, Fields and Factories is less far from the original vision of America with small farms, shop keepers and local town meetings than either side is willing to admit.
I agree. We probably have more in common than we don’t. We may use different names for certain phenomenon but we are likely talking about similar things.
Any chance you could post a transcript sir? As Substack video often breaks.
I’ll make a written post summarizing my thoughts tomorrow
Many thanks!
Good to see you here, great minds, blah, blah, blah. :-)
Of the people, for the people is all that matters.
Gramsci? Lukacs? What’s the book? Surely a digital commons is what techbros would try to destroy. Interested.
Technofeudalism by Varoufakis