menas

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[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 years ago

I think it both. Not all software or codec provider aim to apply the EU and French laws. Quite the contrary

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Judges and Justices are not that precise. They aim to preserved public order before anything else. If a whole industry is based on a questionable interpretation of patent, they is a lot of chances that judges would agree on it. Even in countries where you could not patent algorythm, industries patent the documentation, the "software design", the brand name, the illustrations used, and aggregates everything together, to say they own it. And it works.

TL;DR : Class Justice

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago
[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They is many thing we individually like to see, depending of our social position. Without being organize (formally or not), it seems unlikely that those things maybe compatible one with each other. Our political goals are deeply connect to the way we fight for it today.

I will split my answer in 4 parts : abstractly, an analysis, the way to make it, and how I see it where I'm living

  • Abstracly : we want a world without domination and hierarchy between people
  • Analysis :
      1. Mean our productions are monopolize by the bourgeoisie, and the violence of the state
      1. People are depending from those way of production for their living
      1. States are competing one with each other for they one power
      1. States that are winning these competition ensure the adhesion of a part of their people in enhancing access to utilities
      1. The never ending economic growth, and the ecological situation is slowly ending the situation
      1. The repression of the States are isolating our collectives one with each other. We couldn't design collectively our mobilization accross borders, nations our even our social position. Without the mutualisation of the activist work, people are wore us out, repulsing people to join us, and weakening our fights.
      1. To accelerate this end, and replace way we access to our needs, imply to organize internationally (in order co end 3. and 4.) to self-managed (including to stop) the means of production (in order to resolve 2.)
  • Way to make it :
    • Need to organize not only our solidarity with others, but our own conditions —psychology, materially and socially (in order to resolve 6) through workplace through organization that are already self-managed and that make live internationalism. Today, I think that the ICL-CIT is one of the most concrete way to do so
    • Of cours, the fight for the mean of production shall not be contain of the formal economy, the informal mean of reproduction (carrying, socializing, housing, culturally, entertainment, …). This is last point is a big step forward to resolve 6.
  • An anarchist city : Rent strikes and neighborhood solidarity are let us organize by city block. Restaurant have been replace by common canteen, drugstore by small dispensary (not only supplying medicine, but providing healthcare), stores, and bike workshop. Message boards help to share informations, next to lowtech radio information (by radio, our with lorawan like network for reading information); its help to add, and being inform on topics that would be address on every City block meeting. This city block meetings are deciding of the needs (electricity, heating, pieces for the workshop, foods for the store, …), how to deal with violence issue and is where unions will expose the needs to comply (I will develop after).

Socialized production through union federation, is how we could, as workers, asking for what we need to satisfy the needs. For exemple, if farms need more workers to ensure the need express by city blocks, unions will send workers (with imperative mandate) to discuss in City block meeting of the need of more workers. This discussion could lead to synthesis agreement, like asking time and place to be trained in safety or first aid.

Freedom is build through free time, and even if some necessary works still exists, everybody try to minimize it day after day. Of course we could chill more, but "unnecessary" production could develop as a free time. It may develop entertainment, theater, but why not some scientific stuff; ocean and space exploration may still exists, but they will need the voluntary work of everyone imply, and the ressources willingly given by communities.

Of course, private car have been replaced. Some exists for firefighter or ambulance, but every road have been diminish to one line and 2 cycle path. The place earn is greenish, with kids games, and place to rest.

This is the topic of "Bâtir aussi", a (french) novel.

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago
  • "Justice exists to record legally, ritually control made by the cops to normalize people" Michel Foucault
  • tl;dr : acab
[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • One step further : Unionize
  • One step further : Kick your boss out
  • One step further : Kick every boss out
[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 years ago

So Landlords are united and fighting to get us homeless Lets organize against them !

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 years ago

If aiming public protection need to be qualified in psychology, social or medical carrying, why still use cops ? Qualification is a thing, but it is not anything. People are structured by their workplace. Even someone with a Phd in Psychology joining the police wouldn't be a "good cops". He will still have guns, the right to use violence, colonial procedure, and most importantly : we would have chosen to join the cops with the mission to enforce "peace keeping" by force, even if it's imply starvation, homelessness our unemployment.

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 years ago

Here (in France), the most common argument against voting is to not feed the arguments of "Democratic Legitimity" of the elected that was used during direct actions. That was a thing, but 30 years ago. Now, the proletariat mainly do not vote, and even through the workers that does, it is very common to here that it is pointless. So we have won. I am serious : the anarchist propaganda that aim to demonstrate that the election is a fraud is now common in our social class; this not an argument that mobilize workers against direct action.

Is the election still an issue for our mobilization ? Yes, but indirectly : it focus all the discussion and the information a year on five. It is impossible during that time to mobilize a public opinion on anything else. Talks about political parties and if we should vote or not monopolize every political topic from the media to the workplace or with friends.

If voting is pointless, to vote or not should be pointless too. Why add to the election noise in asking to not vote Q I make a deal with commies that ask me to vote : I accept to vote for a left party if they never talk of the election (or if it is very late in che campaign, if their unionize).

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 years ago

Never forget, never forgive

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

Through our union work, it is very clear that a lot of boss would rather losing money than admit their made mistake. It is more common in small workplace than the biggest one; maybe because this bosses need to stand out from the working class, where the other are more obviously members of the upper class (small bourgeoisie, or under bourgeoisie).

A lot of self-managed experience tried to overcome this weird case of alienation, being more productive than the current state of industry at that time. For example, the cooperative mouvement in agriculture, mutualisation lands and engine where directly inspired by revolutionary mouvement in 1936 spain or even 1920 USSR. In the end, it has been totally incoporated in capitalism in many countries.

The Agile methodology even claim making teams self-managed; indeed teams organized by themselves could be more productive, but are even more alienated. We have the responsibility of the organization, without any power on our time, mean of production, or why we producing.

In the end, we should asking what productivity mean. Is it producing more money in less time ? Being socially use full ? Or being under control ? It's a political question, that help to understood what your experience is a very common today, as described in "Bullshit job" of David Graeber

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 years ago

I think you need to clarify what you mean by "revolution" As I understand your text, you are speaking about subverting institutions to enforce self-management, and you reject insurrection.

This is a common mistake of what "revolution" usually means in socialist and anarchist text. There, the most common definition is a radical shift of how a social system work. For exemple, the insurrection of 1936 is not what lead to the Spanish Social Revolution. There is 40 years of popular education, strike, general strike before that lead to whole regions to be self-managed (like Aragon and Catalogna). The uprising is an answer to the fascist coup d'État. I suggest the reading of the mail Malatesta about the General strike in Italia that lead to the self-management of whole Northern Italia for one week.

However, a lot of experiences of subversion that succeed have experience strong reaction, and have to defend themselves. If you are interested in the subversion of institution through anarchist organization, I suggest to read about Anarcho-syndicalism and Libertarian municipalism

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