Pretty stomach churning, Thatcher’s close relationship to Pinochet.
Tag: politics
Book of Dissent
Enjoyed the Accidental Anarchist documentary. Interesting to see second recent mention of Abdullah Ocalan, Bookchin and democratic confederalism (other recent one being Adam Greenfield ‘s talk at Virtual Futures.)
‘Artificial artificial intelligence’ – using cheap, manual labour to make it seem like you have some fancy machine learning.
“The “counterculture” that celebrated the early Internet and stamped it with utopian fantasies is not synonymous with the “counterculture” of student protests, civil rights, women’s rights, or the anti-war movement.”
Really enjoying @paulmasonnews’ reading of Postcapitalism. Makes the book very accessible.
“Information goods conflict fundamentally with market mechanisms.” Postcapitalism.
the ‘increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies’
http://www.ippr.org/publications/definancialisation-a-democratic-reformation-of-finance
“One of the most worrying long-term consequences of financialisation is the reduction in the capacity of democratic states to meet the demands of their citizens over the demands imposed on them by financial and corporate institutions, institutions which are increasingly free from the responsibilities that were imposed upon them by confident social democracies in the middle of the last century.”
http://www.ippr.org/publications/definancialisation-a-democratic-reformation-of-finance
Money from nothing. Paperless money. Became a core tenet of neo liberalism. (Source: postcapitalism)
Progressive alliance seems like the best hope of averting another 5 years of the Conservatives on June 8th. Is it feasible?