Ewball_Oust [comrade/them]

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  • Ewball_Oust [comrade/them]toMain*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I think radlib journalism about the 2008 crash could be a gateway to disillusioned stock market bettors

    Matt Taibbi - Griftopia

    Robert Scheer - The Great American Stickup

    also these:

    Naomi Klein - Shock doctrine

    Michael Hudson - Killing the Host



  • It is very rare that I write comments on youtube, but under a vaccine video I decided to comment that they should abolish the patents for the vaccines, so it would be much-much easier to produce and distribute

    AND a dude with a Che Guevara profile pic replied to me that no company would innovate without patents and profits

    WUT :che-poggers:






  • Ewball_Oust [comrade/them]toliterature*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Someone should tell him about Hilde Benjamin

    Edit: oof just checked Hilde's English wikipedia page:

    presided over a series of show trials against those identified as political undesirables, such as Johann Burianek and Wolfgang Kaiser

    Is it really show trial when they were actual reactionary/ex-nazi CIA-backed insurgents?






  • I think what we have here is a failure to communicate

    It seems to me you are a purist when it comes to communism

    I am talking about actually existing socialism, and a socialism that could possibly exist in this century

    We won't have a money-less society unless the whole world goes communist, and we won't have a money-less society unless we have a stateless society - and that's not gonna happen overnight

    Therefore we must have a transitionary stage - this could be short in an historical sense, but still could last a lifetime

    In the scenario I propose (and I don't think I'm original) there would be Dictatorship of the Proletariat, there would be no patents, and no individuals controlling large companies, no private ownership of land - even this would be completely unrecognizable compared to today's economy

    So my main point is that we cannot possibly abandon money and markets during the first decades (or maybe centuries?) of a newly formed socialist country. And in that case in a few sectors, something that's kinda like market socialism is preferable to central planning, because it could eliminate the problems in OPs post

    Imagine that India or South Africa goes communist next week. They invite you as an economic adviser, then you say to them that they "need to abandon money for labor tokens ASAP ".

    But what does ASAP means in this case? Days? Months? Years? Decades? Until then what?

    Surely you wouldn't say Fidel, Mao and Uncle Ho should have read more Paul Cockshott on account they haven't abandoned money altogether?

    But maybe I'm missing something, I probably should reread some stuff, so I will go do that. We must stamp out revisionism even in ourselves haha

    And Paul Cockshott looks interesting (Cybersyn is cool)

    I'm out of coffee

    :deng-cowboy:





  • except i didn't say everything should be coops competing on the markets

    democratic centralism and five year plans for the commanding heights of the economy - no markets (especially no financial markets)

    independent union controlled economy (with no patents and copyrights whatsoever) for other less strategic sectors

    The point I was trying to make, maybe poorly, is that we absolutely need strict central planning for some sectors, while other sectors would probably benefit from having independent decentralised unions.

    This may be useful as a transition step towards socialism

    so we agree :)

    This all just shooting shit sadly, for the next decade the best we can do is to fight the rising fascism in the west