Constructive Criticism

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Apr 15, 2023
Skipping past the nasty part
Per Marx and Engels, every closed social order is doomed to one of two fates: Self-annihilation due to its own internal contradictions. A change from within which changes the mode of production and thus the …
Apr 10, 2023
Breakdown as a law of physics
Crisis is endemic to capitalism, but in fact it is endemic to all organisms (i.e., patterns of matter apparently being driven through time by a logic other than that of matter itself). This is a fundamental …
Mar 9, 2023
What is nature?
On one level, there is no real separation between humanity and the rest of the natural world. We are animals, we interact with and exchange energy with other species, etc. Actually, even further, on some level …
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 …
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. Today marks my one year anniversary as a member of PUNCH (“People’s Union for Networked Communism …