Anarchist Communism
by Peter Kropotkin · first published 1897
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Could be worth giving anarchy another look - try Kropotkin's "Anarchist Communism" for a brief overview, or the conquest of bread. It's not an inherently violent ideology at all :) you could also look into Keith McHenry and his rewrite of the anarchist cookbook.
on “We've made the world too complicated” ↗…some common aim. Every day new societies are formed, while every year the old ones aggregate together into larger units, federate across the national frontiers, and cooperate in some common work." -- Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles by Peter Kropotkin (1887) http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/kropotkin/ancom/
on “TV piracy groups formally adopt h264” ↗…person than what we have today. But no authoritarianism is necessary. Anti-authoritarian communism as a political theory goes back to the 19th century to thinkers like Peter Kropotkin, who advocated for “anarchist communism”. Very few people beyond edgy internet teenagers advocate for authoritarian communism today. The real takeaway of Marxism for modern audiences is that an economy where the preponderance of firms are…
on “NASA indefinitely delays return of Starliner to review propulsion data” ↗…difference! American libertarians are highly focused on individualism and zero-sum behavior and thinking, whereas anarchism is a collective ideology focused on mutual aid or even communism (e.g. Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism). Libertarianism is an application of right-wing ideology subtracting the State. Opposition to the State may be a shared aspect of the ideologies, but for another example, just because Nazism advocated…
on “"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill” ↗…have enough time and money to start companies, so thus there's not many co-ops. > replace it with a grassroots up system. This is basically how Marx wrote about Communism, and how Kropotkin wrote about Anarchist Communism. There have been many... interpretations... of their work in practice. Spanish anarchist syndicalism actually worked remarkably well, they had nearly their entire economy syndicalized before they were…
on “Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders” ↗I haven't read a technical book in a long time. I read "You Don't know JS," which is very very short, in about a week. I read "Cracking the Coding Interview" in 3 weeks. As for non fiction, I read "Anarchist Communism" (fairly short) in a week, "Delivered from Distraction" in a month, "Masters of Doom" in about 2 weeks. It depends on my interest more than anything. I obliterated the entire Robin Hobb "Assassin's"…
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