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John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs in a sustainable …
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) zählt zu den beeindruckendsten Frauen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Als Anarcha-Feministin und nach Freiheit strebende Anarchistin …
@GLBW@bookwyrm.social der Autor ist falsch hinterlegt oder?
Wer sich dem Schriftsteller Theodor Plievier heute annähert, stellt zunächst überrascht fest, dass sich die Informationslage im Internet schon beim …
„There’s no recipe for really complicated, dynamic situations.“
— The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers by Ben Horowitz
For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to …
“You’re born. You have about eighty-eight hundred hours in a year. Maybe six hundred and fifty thousand hours before you die. You’ll easily spend half of them sleeping and keeping your body fed, clothed, and reasonably comfortable. Maybe you’re already halfway through your life, meaning you’re down to a hundred and fifty thousand hours left to spend. This is your treasure. This is all you have for everything that matters to you—the love of your family, your contribution to society, your enjoyment of the great outdoors, your rising to challenges, your search for meaning, your legacy, your ecstasies […], your life. And you sell some of those precious hours for this […]—this has no meaning; your time is where all meaning and value lie. “Knowing that money is simply your life energy puts you in the driver’s seat of your money life. How much of my life am I willing to sell to have money in my pocket? Looking around at your accumulation of stuff you can ask, ‘How many hours of my life did I invest to have this . . . chair . . . car . . . matched set of cookware . . . diploma on the wall?’ See what this does to your next purchase.”
This is a general stance I take. Except that I do not work anymore in the understanding of the proletariat or working class. Who shall bring about the revolution/transition? Those who want and need it.
Action by the working class, drawing on its own strength, acting independently and through its own organization, relying on the help of no intermediary, expecting nothing from men or forces outside itself, creating its own conditions of struggle, its own means of resistance and aggression, bringing into everyday life the formula "the emancipation of the proletariat is the task of the proletariat itself". - Emile Puget
— How we shall bring about the revolution by Emile Pataud (Libertarian critique)
"There is clearly some justice in the remarks - the obstacles [in a revolution] are always overcome, problems always solved by extra feats of agitation and the production of more solidarity and revolutionary determination."
— How we shall bring about the revolution by Emile Pataud (Libertarian critique)
And this is the main problem I have with revolutionary romanticism. The thinking it will always overcome, instead of anticipation and preparation of what shall overcome. Not determination alone will solve. The capability of solving will.
The current romanticism of revolution looks either as a determination to riot or a re-run of the Spanish/Russian revolution (in pictures). It is more likely to look like a civil war with a partial request to run infrastructure.
The general strike ideal is an agitation device, likewise sabotage, the preparation to run infrastructure in crisis mode is the more likely thing to happen.
Tom Mann used the concept of "raising class-conscious" to equip the anarchist movement with people capable of taking "responsibility in the control of all industrial affairs" i.e. running infrastructure. Not just in the terms of being able for a strike or mass action.
"Co-operative Commonwealth" was commonly used in the UK-labour movement before WW1 to denote a socialist society.
Maxwell Maltz: Psycho-cybernetics (1960, Prentice-Hall)
Cybernetics (loosely translated from the Greek): "a helmsman who steers his ship to port." Psycho-Cybernetics is a term coined by …
For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your …
