Thanks for reading Usufruct Collective's Word Garden! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Self-managed forms of organizing are necessary but insufficient for any libertarian revolutionary process. Any revolutionary process has both form(s) and content(s). We should not fetishize either from the other and abstract form from content or content from form. All political/economic/social movement processes and contents have organizational forms of some kind that are part of their overall development. Such forms and contents can either be self-managed/horizontal/directly democratic/participatory, or otherwise. A notion of strategy without forms of organizing– or inversely formal structures without good contents, strategies and goals– leads to one-sided absurdity. And all organizational forms have some kind of content. It is not enough for revolution and socialism to just develop self-managed organizations– and yet self-managed organizations and the strategic prefiguration thereof are
Once you see how our income-based laborforce really works (the fact that high profits depend on low wages), then you’ll finally understand why a digital system matching people to jobs, resources to communities, and daily production, consumption, and waste management operations to personal and professional demands is actually more sustainable and ethical than today’s global political economy, mainly because, compared to scientific-capitalism, scientific-socialism is a lot more democratic; it values and views our very basic, very intuitive belief “universal protections for all” as both a human need and an environmental right.
Once you see how our income-based laborforce really works (the fact that high profits depend on low wages), then you’ll finally understand why a digital system matching people to jobs, resources to communities, and daily production, consumption, and waste management operations to personal and professional demands is actually more sustainable and ethical than today’s global political economy, mainly because, compared to scientific-capitalism, scientific-socialism is a lot more democratic; it values and views our very basic, very intuitive belief “universal protections for all” as both a human need and an environmental right.