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Posts tagged Politics

May 25 '13
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us?
Smart machines probably won’t kill us all—but they’ll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think.

This whole topic has been on my mind for a good long while. Refreshing and disappointing to find out that Im not the radical I thought I was.

Anyways, I see a couple different solutions:
1.) Labor Rationing.
New software is becoming available that makes it easier to manage larger workforces who work smaller shifts. A way to redistribute decreasing wealth through the Middle and Lower Classes. It could also mean the creation of a 24 hour economy since once businesses have people working around the clock other businesses will have to service workers taking unconventional shifts. This also has the added benefit of reducing traffic on the roads, at stores, restaurants etc.
2.) Worker Owned Businesses
This seems like a more practical solution to Noah Smith’s problem. If more workers owned the businesses they worked at (e.g. co-ops, syndicates, co-determination) then there’s a real connection between citizens owning capital without a government jury-rigged solution. It also has the added benefit of relieving corruption in politics because, in theory, a whole company will have a more difficult time decided which politicians to bribe than a few CEOs.
3.) Volunteerism
Jeremy Rifkin talks about this in The End of Work. Basically people can start bartering and exchanging services without the use of government currency. It could all be done informally or through a system such as the Japanese Fureai Kippu. It also strengthens community ties, empowers people, and basically gives us something to do with all the free time.
4.) Government Incentives
Basically to implement the first 3 solutions government would have to step in and provide either tax incentives or possibly even subsidies to corporations self-imposing these reforms. This in theory would be a more acceptable compromise than high capital taxes and government programs. Instead of having government take care of people recalibrate the economy so that businesses provide for more people themselves and in doing so becomes a self-sustaining positive feed-back loop once again. To strengthen the feed back loop of technological change tax incentives could be created for companies that spend more on R&D.
5.) Reduce Living Costs
An automated work force has benefits when it comes to goods and services but we have yet to see a reduction in the costs of some necessities, specifically housing. This may change if the pre-fabrication techniques of China’s Broad Sustainable Building end up being automated. But in the mean time we should reduce people’s need to work and that means cutting the remaining high and necessary costs. Healthcare could be reduced if insurance companies were forced to negotiate prices. Rent could be reduced by providing more rent-to-own programs. Or possibly the rationing problems of rent control could be solved with tax breaks for multiple-income houses. Less people would hog cheaper homes to themselves if we provide incentives for community living. Rent is the one link in the chain that is tying unemployment to real poverty. It is the fulcrum of the capital vs. labor problem.

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May 13 '13
Palestinians returning from work in Israel

Palestinians returning from work in Israel

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Apr 25 '13

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  1. “Market anarchism” isn’t anarchist.
  2. Voluntaryism isn’t anarchist.
  3. “Anarcho-socialism” is redundant and is principally use by “anarcho-capitalists”, who, by the way, are not anarchists.
  4. Primitivism and anarchism are incompatible.
  5. Agorism is questionable, to say the least.
  6. “Market anarchism” isn’t anarchist.
  7. Voluntaryism isn’t anarchist.
  8. “Anarcho-socialism” is redundant and is principally use by “anarcho-capitalists”, who, by the way, are not anarchists.
  9. Primitivism and anarchism are incompatible.
  10. Agorism is questionable, to say the least.
  11. “Market anarchism” isn’t anarchist.
  12. Voluntaryism isn’t anarchist.
  13. “Anarcho-socialism” is redundant and is principally use by “anarcho-capitalists”, who, by the way, are not anarchists.
  14. Primitivism and anarchism are incompatible.
  15. Agorism is questionable, to say the least.

I disagree, market anarchists aren’t that bad, though I agree with ancaps and voluntaryists not being anarchists. What’s incompatible about primitivism and anarchism?

This isn’t about being “bad”. Without even goin’ into it, anarchism is strictly ANTI-capitalist. “Market anarchism” is NOT strictly anti-capitalist and is in fact compatible with and generally indistinguishable from capitalism. “Market anarchism” is not anarchist.

Anarchism is a sophisticated form of social organization. Primitivism precludes such organization. The primitivist views social organization as inherently paternalistic.

I value primitivist critiques and don’t think its entirely incompatible with anarchism, but I do see your point as the practice of anarchy, albeit voluntary self organization, would still result in complex social organization.

What’s the point in telling people that they can’t be something they claim to be?

936 notes (via darlingbexy & thinksquad)Tags: politics anarchy

Apr 25 '13

45 Failed Alex Jones Predictions

5 notes Tags: conspiracy alex jones obama politics nwo

Apr 11 '13

Orson Welles and the River of Freedom

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Apr 10 '13
Interview with a North Korean Spy

In a world exclusive interview the now-exiled Kim Hyun-hee tells of life inside the kingdom and how she was groomed by North Korean spy masters to plant a bomb on a South Korean passenger plane.

The 1987 attack killed all 115 people on board and led to the United States listing North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.

“From the moment I got on the Korean Air flight, left the bomb in the overhead locker, and until I got off, I was nervous every second of the operation,” she said.

Tags: politics North Korea news war spy terrorism conspiracy

Apr 10 '13
The U.S. Kill Team

The U.S. Kill Team

2 notes Tags: politics war fighting death afghanistan taliban america anarchy photo

Apr 10 '13

Modern Day Debtor’s Prisons: Megan’s Story


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Tags: politics anarchy totalitarianism prison debt nwo occupy news depressing

Apr 6 '13
Illegal Ohio Debtor's Prisons

The Americans Civil Liberties Union on Friday revealed that courts in Ohio are illegally throwing poor people in jail for being unable to pay off a debt.

In a report titled, “The Outskirts of Hope,” (PDF) the ACLU shines a light on a harrowing “debtors’ prison” system in Ohio — one that violates both the United States’ and the Ohio constitution. Ohioans are being jailed for “as small as a few hundred dollars,” despite the constitutional violation, and the economic evidence that it costs the state more to pay for their jail sentence than the amount of the debt.

Tags: politics debt occupy protest conspiracy money revolution anarchy

Apr 4 '13
anarcho-queer: Greek Islands Cast Out Fascist Party ‘Golden Dawn’ Members of the far-right party Golden Dawn(GD) were forced to leave a small village on the island of Thasos at the weekend. GD representatives had come to the village of Potamia on Sunday with the aim of handing out food exclusively to Greeks. Such propaganda acts are fairly common for GD as they attempt to benefit from the poverty now affecting Greece. The party have set up previous food distribution events during which people have to show proof of being Greek. This time however local residents gathered in the town square and forced the GD out. The residents, carrying antifascist banners, made it clear that the fascist party were not welcome and stopped them unloading their van. Pretty quickly the GD members gave up and headed away to the jeers of the crowd. Other attempts to set up Greek only food distributions on the island met with little or no enthusiasm. In another blow to GD on the Greek islands this week one of their members ended up being thrown into the sea after meeting some antifascists in Hania, Crete. Members of GD gathered in Hania and proceeded to move around the town attacking three non-Greeks on the way. However local antifascists gathered and soon a fight broke out in which four GD members and two antifascists were arrested. During the clashes a GD member was thrown into the sea of Hania harbour. By blocking their activities or throwing them into the sea the residents of Thasos and Hania have given a clear example of self-organised opposition to the far-right. Examples we must keep in mind as fear and xenophobia spread. In another blow to GD on the Greek islands this week one of their members ended up being thrown into the sea

anarcho-queer:

Greek Islands Cast Out Fascist Party ‘Golden Dawn’

Members of the far-right party Golden Dawn(GD) were forced to leave a small village on the island of Thasos at the weekend. GD representatives had come to the village of Potamia on Sunday with the aim of handing out food exclusively to Greeks. Such propaganda acts are fairly common for GD as they attempt to benefit from the poverty now affecting Greece. The party have set up previous food distribution events during which people have to show proof of being Greek.

This time however local residents gathered in the town square and forced the GD out. The residents, carrying antifascist banners, made it clear that the fascist party were not welcome and stopped them unloading their van. Pretty quickly the GD members gave up and headed away to the jeers of the crowd. Other attempts to set up Greek only food distributions on the island met with little or no enthusiasm.

In another blow to GD on the Greek islands this week one of their members ended up being thrown into the sea after meeting some antifascists in Hania, Crete. Members of GD gathered in Hania and proceeded to move around the town attacking three non-Greeks on the way. However local antifascists gathered and soon a fight broke out in which four GD members and two antifascists were arrested. During the clashes a GD member was thrown into the sea of Hania harbour.

By blocking their activities or throwing them into the sea the residents of Thasos and Hania have given a clear example of self-organised opposition to the far-right. Examples we must keep in mind as fear and xenophobia spread.

In another blow to GD on the Greek islands this week one of their members ended up being thrown into the sea

216 notes (via anarcho-queer)Tags: fascism politics golden dawn