Exactly what you're saying is the reason we need more experiments now than ever. I think a lot of people have bought into the capitalist myths that it is the natural way of human organization and don't even know about the many ways of organizing societies that lasted hundreds of years longer than capitalism.
But you are right, it is so pervasive and backed by police and military force which makes it hard to create new possibilities.
"Human societies have been organized in vastly different ways throughout history and there are still many more options for us to test."
Hi, Sean. A problem arises when we try to rack our brains to find alternatives to "test". My own explorations land at some society that embraces the true spirit of communism - a political theory that, as Marx expounded it, has in fact never been applied as a governmental system. I think it founders at the problem of scale. But at small scale, it offers one of your "options", as the commune.
It's when you ponder the posit that capitalism (which is frequently confused and commingled with commerce, which is something different) is founded in the idea of theft that one comes to a realisation of what imperial expansion was, and still is, all about. When something cannot be stolen, such as when labour through slavery is outlawed, it is then procured at the lowest possible price, which partly explains the inordinate size of certain prison populations.
It is capitalism that our ordinary working lives feed into. It is because of capitalism that some work for the same wages now as they did 40 years ago. Capitalism is exploitation pure and simple and you're entirely for it if you're the exploiter; and totally for it if you're the exploited, because there is no alternative. No option. To test.
Exactly what you're saying is the reason we need more experiments now than ever. I think a lot of people have bought into the capitalist myths that it is the natural way of human organization and don't even know about the many ways of organizing societies that lasted hundreds of years longer than capitalism.
But you are right, it is so pervasive and backed by police and military force which makes it hard to create new possibilities.
"Human societies have been organized in vastly different ways throughout history and there are still many more options for us to test."
Hi, Sean. A problem arises when we try to rack our brains to find alternatives to "test". My own explorations land at some society that embraces the true spirit of communism - a political theory that, as Marx expounded it, has in fact never been applied as a governmental system. I think it founders at the problem of scale. But at small scale, it offers one of your "options", as the commune.
It's when you ponder the posit that capitalism (which is frequently confused and commingled with commerce, which is something different) is founded in the idea of theft that one comes to a realisation of what imperial expansion was, and still is, all about. When something cannot be stolen, such as when labour through slavery is outlawed, it is then procured at the lowest possible price, which partly explains the inordinate size of certain prison populations.
It is capitalism that our ordinary working lives feed into. It is because of capitalism that some work for the same wages now as they did 40 years ago. Capitalism is exploitation pure and simple and you're entirely for it if you're the exploiter; and totally for it if you're the exploited, because there is no alternative. No option. To test.