And again, I agree with you on all points. I’ll be poking my head into a bit of theory in the coming weeks, particularly the book worship and Why Socialism at first, and then into more communist stuff as well.
As for the social democracy issues, that’s why I mentioned careful drafting of those bills and shooting them down if need be. It is possible to do those systems right. It has to be cooperative, not coercive and that’s something that Einstein addresses in Why Socialism. We’re currently in the predatory phase of humanity, so what we understand of human nature and cooperation right now can shine little light on the socialist future. We can’t look at history for examples, we need to make them. I want to write bills that look similar to what’s happening now, but is new and innovative for the sake of the future. This wraps back into the book-worship thing we discussed as well. They did great thinking 200 years ago about where we’d be right now. We need to do some great thinking today about where we’ll be in 200 years.
It’s good that you want to read theory! Let me know if you have any questions.
As for strategy, the practical extension of trying to carefully prune bills while under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie does not have much practical success in the real world, historically. I expect you’ll learn more about why revolution is necessary once you start diving into theory, though.
The thing with new and innovative bills is that they must be informed by existing conditions. In China, they describe this process as “crossing the river by feeling for the stones,” you can only be sure of your position and must be flexible in where you move by seeing what sticks.
I don’t want to prune them I want to write them :)
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Reread that sentence, I said not a revolutionary yet. I still see a route for peaceful means, we’ll get to box four (I can link that reference if you’re curious “boxes of liberty”)
And again, I agree with you on all points. I’ll be poking my head into a bit of theory in the coming weeks, particularly the book worship and Why Socialism at first, and then into more communist stuff as well.
As for the social democracy issues, that’s why I mentioned careful drafting of those bills and shooting them down if need be. It is possible to do those systems right. It has to be cooperative, not coercive and that’s something that Einstein addresses in Why Socialism. We’re currently in the predatory phase of humanity, so what we understand of human nature and cooperation right now can shine little light on the socialist future. We can’t look at history for examples, we need to make them. I want to write bills that look similar to what’s happening now, but is new and innovative for the sake of the future. This wraps back into the book-worship thing we discussed as well. They did great thinking 200 years ago about where we’d be right now. We need to do some great thinking today about where we’ll be in 200 years.
It’s good that you want to read theory! Let me know if you have any questions.
As for strategy, the practical extension of trying to carefully prune bills while under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie does not have much practical success in the real world, historically. I expect you’ll learn more about why revolution is necessary once you start diving into theory, though.
The thing with new and innovative bills is that they must be informed by existing conditions. In China, they describe this process as “crossing the river by feeling for the stones,” you can only be sure of your position and must be flexible in where you move by seeing what sticks.
I don’t want to prune them I want to write them :)
Reread that sentence, I said not a revolutionary yet. I still see a route for peaceful means, we’ll get to box four (I can link that reference if you’re curious “boxes of liberty”)
Still, you get the idea. Writing good bills while under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie will not get much, if any, change.