Constructive Criticism

Recent posts

Sep 15, 2022
An honest techno-Utopianism
I just watched some of the videos of the talks from the “Schelling Point Conference”. These talks give a clear display of a current within the crypto/web3 space: techno-utopianism. Techno-Utopianism is an …
Jul 16, 2022
Why “Socially Responsible Investing”, divestment campaings, and other schemes are doomed to fail
I recently read a blog post analyzing various purported “socially responsible investing” (SRI) products and showing how they were anything but. This kind of analysis is valuable for learning and …
Mar 24, 2022
The 7 coordinates of human society
There is a nice idea – which I learned from the work of David Harvey (or in podcast form) – of analyzing society in terms of a number of “moments”, or aspects of society at a given …
Feb 8, 2022
The capitalist class is not the primary enemy
A lot of socialist rhetoric focuses on framing the capitalist class as the primary enemy of socialists and of the working class. However, the capitalist class itself is not the primary enemy of socialism. The …
Jan 1, 2022
Using mathematical language to strengthen the movement towards communism
In a series of blog posts I have written, and probably in more that I will write in the future, I explain my understanding of Marxist ideas in partially mathematical terms. There are a few reasons I am doing …