Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola meets David Greaber…If this is the case, I look forward to seeing Megalopolis:
Author: EMN
Hofstede’s Power Distance Index
Geert Hofstede and others produced Cultural Dimension theory to explain six dimensions of culture “that society needs to come to term with in order to organize itself.” source Of particular interest to anarchism is the Power Distance Index (PDI), and maybe the Masculinity and Individualism indexes. Whether they are actually …
A New Local Currency
It’s not surprising this happened. Hopefully more towns follow suit: Why a small town in Washington is printing its own currency during the pandemic Breaking money monopolies
Stop Blaming Everything Bad on Anarchists
No shit, but didn’t expect this from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/04/stop-blaming-everything-bad-anarchists/
Mutual Exchange Radio
A few anarchist and libertarian podcasts have come and gone, but most of the content is still available. A great “new”podcast, Mutual Exchange Radio, was born a while back to “explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority… The show brings together a …
Capitalization of Labor
…Human labor is forbidden to be capitalized through direct human ownership. But through the marvel of modern finance human labor continues to be capitalized. Labor capitalization today is carried out through the ownership of businesses. The most familiar example today is the stock market where pieces of businesses are regularly …
Can We Do It Ourselves?
We can: Overall this is a descent video, and going for a particular message or point, but a sequel is in order: There is no discussion of the dangers of cooperatives still behaving like capitalists, or pushing past the “cost is the limit of price” principle to opt for …
The rapist is you. It’s the cops. The judges. The state. The…
If you didn’t see it… The Original in Chile: In the US, it happened in NYC (another NYC version here) Outside Harvey Weinstein Trial, though they removed/replaced “The State” for “the System”…weak sauce! Although the System is The State, it doesn’t have the same punch or pinpoint the crux of …
Marginal Costs and Jeremy Rifkin
Rifkin doesn’t entirely get it, but at least he is on the way to the ocean. At the heart of capitalism there lies a contradiction in the driving mechanism that has propelled it ever upward to commanding heights, but now is speeding it to its death: the inherent dynamism of …