Reason in Revolt

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Mar 8, 2023
Punting on the core contradictions
Capital has two core contradictions, or incompatibilities, with the world it exists within: The contradiction with human nature: the class divide which sees some exploited, made to suffer, deprived materially and spiritually of their natural human right to autonomy; others drowning in spoils but experiencing (consciously as guilt, or subconsciously as rage or self-righteousness) the cruelty which their comfort is built upon.…
Jan 12, 2023
Life on the Virtual Commune
The following is written as a sort of near future sci-fi short story, to illustrate life in a virtual commune.…
Jan 12, 2023
Class Struggle Voltron: Let’s invent new organizational forms
This post proposes a new organizational form called a “virtual commune”. If you want to jump right into what that form could look like in practice, check out this post.…
Jan 12, 2023
Theorem on co-option
This is just a short note on the idea of “base vs superstructure”. The distinction is often made in Marxism between the economic base and the “superstructure”, which are the “non-economic” forms of life.…
Nov 21, 2022
The Communist Hypothesis (poem)
I threw a leaf in the stream. After smoothly travelling downstream a little, It gets stuck against a rock. I stood watching that leaf, and then:…