Americans: “You need tens of billions of dollars to build high tech equipment competitive on the global market”
Also Americans: “Intel, here’s tens of billions of dollars. Build me high tech equipment.”
Intel: pocketing the money for shareholders “No.”
Also Also Americans: “Hey, what are we even doing with all this high tech equipment, anyway?”
sound of Flock Camera, Data Center, and Predator Drone factories rumbling
How do you get all of those people to cooperate with you and to follow a common plan under anarchism?
I imagine the same way you do it under capitalism. By offering them stack in the work product and a prominent place in society while the construction/manufacturing takes place.
The big hang-up for modern Anarchists is that they don’t have a large pool of wealth from which to employ people, secure resources, or host the kind of social events that elevate public status. And - in theory at least - that’s what union organizing and worker mobilization is intended to achieve.
The capital is free, folks. You can just seize it. When you all work together, there’s very few people left who can stop you.
Under communism (in the soviet sense) at least you can force them. In capitalism, you can force them by paying them.
Under communism (in the Soviet sense) you mobilize a bunch of disgruntled and impoverished WW1 veterans to overthrow the government with the guns and bombs they bought to fight the Germans.
Under capitalism, you force people by not paying them.
In the modern western system, it’s definitely an open question as to how you transition. We don’t have millions of Bonus Marchers to tap into as a revolutionary militia. And we don’t have control of the financial services that would let us lock out corporate raiders and predatory debt-holders.
At some point, what we need is a large and well-organized network of dissidents, ready to strip the wiring out of the defunct state and repurpose it to our own uses. But those lines of communication - nevermind the will to power - don’t exist (to my knowledge anyway).
Americans: “You need tens of billions of dollars to build high tech equipment competitive on the global market”
Also Americans: “Intel, here’s tens of billions of dollars. Build me high tech equipment.”
Intel: pocketing the money for shareholders “No.”
Also Also Americans: “Hey, what are we even doing with all this high tech equipment, anyway?”
sound of Flock Camera, Data Center, and Predator Drone factories rumbling
I imagine the same way you do it under capitalism. By offering them stack in the work product and a prominent place in society while the construction/manufacturing takes place.
The big hang-up for modern Anarchists is that they don’t have a large pool of wealth from which to employ people, secure resources, or host the kind of social events that elevate public status. And - in theory at least - that’s what union organizing and worker mobilization is intended to achieve.
The capital is free, folks. You can just seize it. When you all work together, there’s very few people left who can stop you.
Under communism (in the Soviet sense) you mobilize a bunch of disgruntled and impoverished WW1 veterans to overthrow the government with the guns and bombs they bought to fight the Germans.
Under capitalism, you force people by not paying them.
In the modern western system, it’s definitely an open question as to how you transition. We don’t have millions of Bonus Marchers to tap into as a revolutionary militia. And we don’t have control of the financial services that would let us lock out corporate raiders and predatory debt-holders.
At some point, what we need is a large and well-organized network of dissidents, ready to strip the wiring out of the defunct state and repurpose it to our own uses. But those lines of communication - nevermind the will to power - don’t exist (to my knowledge anyway).