Cowbee [he/him]

Ethics and legality are far from the same, or even linked.

Individually? Either try to ride with the Capitalists for as long as they last if you’re already one of them, or join the Working Class and help bring about Socialism.

Capitalism has a natural tendency to go from free competition and decentralization to centralization over time, which lowers the real rate of profit. In fighting this, Capitalists go for more centralization to raise absolute profits, which has a definite limit. This means Socialism, ie public ownership and central planning by the Working Class, is a logical step beyond Capitalism brought about by Capitalism’s very mechanisms.

I have an Introductory Reading List for Marxism if you want to read more about what you can do personally.

It’s a natural consequence of the decay of Capitalism, it will polarize and affect more and more people as time goes on.

Is that your personal ideology, or the ideology of sh.itjust.works?

Is solarpunk really an ideology? It seems more like a deliberate aesthetic choice to guide actual ideologies like Anarchism, at least from what other slrpnk.net users have explained to me. Is there actual “Solarpunk” theory that isn’t an addendum to other ideologies?

I always figured blahaj leans more Anarchist or liberal than anything, at least in my experience.

I use both Hexbear.net and Lemmy.ml.

Hexbear.net is Left-Unity and anti-sectarian, there are lots of MLs and Anarchists there alike.

Lemmy.ml is admin’d by MLs, but has Anarchists in the moderators as well. Technically Lemmy.ml does not take a firm stance politically overall, but by virtue of the makeup of the moderators and admins it leans heavily socialist.

Speaking of Marxism-Leninism, I made an introductory guide to Marxism-Leninism in case anyone is interested. With the aftermath of the US election, now is a great time to begin reading theory, as it helps us analyze our current struggles and how we can move beyond them. Open for feedback!

Some instances like Hexbear.net have general megathreads where people rant under spoiler tags like this:

Lemmy isn’t pushing political content, Lemmy users tend to be very politically charged, thus the content reflects that.

It is for me, I use an account on Lemmy.ml for general browsing (and correcting misconceptions about Marxism, if I’m being honest), and a Hexbear.net account I pretty much only browse locally if I just want to relax and not have to worry about getting into an argument.

An imagined, hypothetical base is not a real, existing base, and thus it can’t project the superstructure but be a part of an existing superstructure. That’s why the existing base helps distort it and even coopt it.

All of these radical restructurings of society were based on gradual buildup until catalyst points shifted the dominant Mode of Production. By analyzing Capitalism, a decentralized market economy that necessarily gravitates towards centralization in Monopolist Syndicates, we can predict that Socialism is the next step. Marx is correct.

The admins and moderators are Communists, so I doubt it, but they can feel free to let me know if I’m going too far and need to cut back a bit. I’ll act accordingly.

Nice! Feel free to add feedback in the comments or ask any questions you like!

Healthy communities come from healthy instances and local browsers coming across it when sorting by New.

I skimmed the article, but I find it unsatisfactory. It focuses very much on imagining a better future, and that by doing so, we can accept and work towards it. This is fundamentally Utopian and Idealist, it doesn’t emphasize a materialist foundation for how to get there beyond hoping and trying to modify the Superstructure deliberately so that the Base forms based on it. The problem with that mode of thinking is that the Base is constantly reinforcing the Superstructure projected from it, and thus the changes to the Superstructure you propose are going to be modified and even coopted by the Class in power, ie the Bourgeoisie, with little effort.

The basic DNA of humans is that our ideas form from our Material Conditions, and the driver of this is the mode of production.

What “Utopias” are you referring to, here? The old, Utopian socialist of Owen’s kind, or the modern, Marxist form of Socialism (which rejects the term “utopian”)?

Thanks for checking it out!

As for Solarpunk, I think it’s certainly useful, but like any aesthetic-based movement it can be easily co-opted without a strong emphasis on theory. Namely:

1. Why do we need Solarpunk?
2. Who can push for Solarpunk?
3. What is Solarpunk?
4. How can we transition from our present conditions to Solarpunk?
5. When can we transition to Solarpunk?

Those are a few questions (among others) that need to be consistent across the board for any real change to occur, simply having an image of a “good society” is Utopianism, and thus prone to failure like all previous Utopian movements.

Eventually, the contradictions necessarily created by Capitalism, ie decentralized markets leading to centralized monopolist syndicates, will result in said syndicates being pulled from under the feet of the Bourgeoisie. Marx has remained correct in his predictions thus far. I don’t think it will take half the world dying either for the US Empire to fall. This better future will be Socialist in nature, Solarpunk is more of an aesthetic than an ideology but this Socialist future will most likely heavily rely on solar power among other renewables.

I made a Read Theory, Darn it! introduction to Marxism reading list if you want to check it out.

AES states historically plan production based on fulfilling needs, not profits. Profit is driven by consumption, so there is always an incentive to overproduce. Combined with a focus on green energy and efficient planning, Socialism is a necessity, and again, returning to earlier production methods will only result in repeating the historical development in Mode of Production.