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A really neat analysis of the material and social dynamics of neofeudalism.
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You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin’ lord the grain. Your fucking children, you’ve had 15 children. You’ve never taken a bath. You’ve literally never. washed. your. penis. You’ve never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You’ve had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke’s army.
Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can’t read. You don’t know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don’t know shit. You literally probably don’t even know what the direction ‘left’ is. I’m sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I’ve been to the Renaissance Fair. I’ve eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call ‘bitch beaters’, which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.
Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get past that. You gotta be unemotional. You can’t sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You’re in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he’s in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.
You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and…
End. This. Nightmare.
I know nothing of Warhammer but Skaven is also one of the best crust bands ever
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SVsKnSJuivI
Highly recommended game. Skaven are probably my favourite fantasy villain race. They're Mad Max rats that use plague magic to fight the Holy Roman Empire.
Isn't it like, super expensive and stuff? I looked into what Skaven were cause of the band name and not much else. It seems very very involved.
The tabletop figurines are but I don't play that. I just go for the videogames.
It’s like free market capitalism led us along this path to inevitable feudalism... a “road to serfdom,” if you will.
But a shift in the relationships of production that defined previous forms of capitalism. The gig economy, subcontracting, and various forms of debt slavery all create a class that owns nothing. The state this shift creates is one where authoritarian violence is the only means of coercion, and nothing about it is subject to real democratic input anymore. As things get worse, the bourgeois collection of land and resources means being able to reinforce this new system. Then she'll just be describing regular feudalism only shittier.
But is owning nothing by itself bad? Nuclear-hot-take-haver here :posadist-nuke:
No, but like in general: remove debt out of equation, there are few things I would care about owning directly, probably some memorable things and that’s it.
I like the idea of library socialism, but the socialism part is the essential element. Shifting toward an economy of rent means a condition of precarity where you're never building value in your assets even if you contribute to them. You live at the whim of the tyrants who control that debt and use the power of the state to enforce it.
Well yes, but the problem is debt then, not not-owning part. Maybe just semantic difference, but capitalists also like owning stuff
Holy crap, this is the first episode in a while that's really blown me away. I have to read more of the guest's work. She laid out so much of what I've been thinking.
I just ordered "Communist Horizon". She's got a lot of books out there, might do inter library loan for some of them. Can't wait for the weird looks from the librarians when I turn those forms in (I live in a rural area)!
The real neofeudalism is Amazon returning us to the economic importance urine used to have.
