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>>18656138
Just as long as we’re dumping the whole hierarchal structure too. Full co-op WSDE style syndicalism is a good start. But the wealthy class will, as they are now, actively trying to squelch it. It’s only a start.

https://youtu.be/6FwT6qMLjeg

>>17870961
>maybe because>>
Yeah, already answered that.
>drawn and quartered
So you think authoritarians will want to join a direct democracy and take power and when they can’t that’s somehow a failure of democracy?

That is what you’re making a case for. We have long histories of authoritarians running things, and they’ll continue to coral people into their differing forms of government, but we shouldn’t expect anything different. Places that have traditions of calling themselves democratic need to try actual democracy.

>>16621101
So that’s it?
No Cockshott currency?

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>>16523958
Oh and Wolff goes over it here

>>16502517
Yeah, he’s real easy to read.

>>16421356
>non-marxist
Why? Marxist analysis is crucial for understanding class dynamics, don't see why you would try to explicitly distance yourself from that.
Richard Wolffs book Democracy At Work is probably what you want, but then again he's a marxian economist.

>>14757215
You don’t even have a job.

Hell, I still get a tax return.

>>14470462
>It’s Jewish magic keeping this place open!
How about some critique of REI now.
The place has to buy books to put on shelves still.

Marx.

>>13336572
Yes they hold up. An easier introduction to Marxian ideas is through Richard Wolff, writing or videos all very available online of course.

>>13264253
Read this please. Very simple stuff, he’s a good guy, doesn’t encourage a violent revolution, just wants to promote a kind of workers co-op. He’ll teach you some things you never knew.

>>13258661
I’ve been wondering the same thing for a few years now. Reading about solutions and working backwards to a round level. Many of us are stuck in some old fashioned ideas of supporting progressives of the DSA, or joining a union, or tryin to revitalize the IWW. Maybe all that’s helpful. But besides reading Cockshott’s Towards a New Socialism and Wolff’s Democracy at work, I’m thinking of how to get a whole community to essentially become preppers

What do you mean “odd”?
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>>13208595
Try reading this.

>>13203946
WSDE. Worker Self-Directed Enterprise. No bosses to overrule the very basic decision to keep your job.
Yes, violence. Because twitboys demand blood. Kill yourselves now, you are outnumbered.

>>13194499
How can it work unless the ruling class give up their class?

>>13191386
It was a state run capitalist country. With certain aspects of socialism, just like the rest of Europe. Socialism Lite, if you will. I’ve never defended it, Stalin or Beria, but that doesn’t excuse Gulag Archipelagos lies. Get your head out of the Cold War propaganda, burger.

>>13191393
Good post. I mostly agree. Bourgeois attempts at being socialists are always corrupted. At best they like soc-dem reformism.

>>13191454
So do you need Tucker Carlson to come out with the words before you accept the truth of it?
Read this book please. It’s easy stuff.

>>13185724
Loaded this...

>>13184985
>Singapore is poised to become the new world superpower

>>13185316
And the western oligarchs who run things don’t. Too expensive.

>other Marxist writers working today?
I like Wolff and Cockshott

>>13082744
I’m being completely honest. People can be easily taught to bare the burden of self reliance. What is this bitching about poor people undercutting wages? The employers set the wages. That’s capitalism’s fault.
We need stronger stuff than simple unionism, we need a world of co-ops and syndicates. Democracy in the workplace would lead to communities that looked after their own governance. If some don’t have a head for it, they’ll keep out of it.
I do tend to describe the generation after that implements these reforms, so maybe you misunderstood me, or actual “human nature”

Recommend this book in another thread. It’s simple enough

Another answer for OP