Manipulation of fiat currencies – self-sovereign, fed-regulated, etc. – embedded in proprietary logics focused on mere accumulation can’t define social relations that’d determine systems change.
The most it can be leveraged for are prefigurative world-building projects and tech.
The most it can be leveraged for are prefigurative world-building projects and tech.
https://twitter.com/whatdotcd/status/1366065244066508802
Ironically, “grassroots + non-hierarchical” is nearly synonymous with “decentralized + autonomous,” and we have centuries of history showing advantages of this organization.
The issue in these times is largely related to culture + fragmentation (which new tech can help address).
The issue in these times is largely related to culture + fragmentation (which new tech can help address).
Our challenge is less around “leadership,” and more around our capacity to put everyone in a position to lead themselves via directly democratic decision-making processes (governance before government).
Nostalgia (+ tradition) is indeed an enemy, though.
Nostalgia (+ tradition) is indeed an enemy, though.
https://twitter.com/whatdotcd/status/1366066778049310724?s=21
The efforts you mention, @whatdotcd, were largely laughed off because they were spontaneous and without any program or longer prep that dealt with labor, land, or capital (all elements we have to deal with in trying to move beyond Capitalism, but starting from within Capitalism).
“Progressives” getting comfortable with new ideas also includes “progressives” looking beyond electoral politics or what is happening “above,” and wrestling with $$$ + power first to cultivate radically different social relations “below” (amongst people).
https://twitter.com/whatdotcd/status/1366085179052339209?s=21
Because crypto is based upon fiat under global Capitalism, this means it can be manipulated via market any which way (why we can only place so much confidence in it as a tool for freedom). The underlying tech, however, holds clear revolutionary potential.
https://twitter.com/whatdotcd/status/1366085577280548879?s=21
If we are able to cultivate new value systems through culture, and pair this with new tech that helps give people the capacity to act on these new value systems prefiguratively, we will then be in a place to pursue what we believe is real systems change grounded in social change.
For more on what we’re getting at, @whatdotcd, please see our pinned tweet and explore the page below.
And if interested in exploring this subject more from a holistic, heterodox economics standpoint, please check out the economist Frederic Sterling Lee.
blacksocialists.us/our-strategy
And if interested in exploring this subject more from a holistic, heterodox economics standpoint, please check out the economist Frederic Sterling Lee.
blacksocialists.us/our-strategy
There is no getting around fiat currencies under global Capitalism.
The core question is:
What social organization and protocols will we tie to our money and resources and will shape the power that we build to dismantle all social, economic, and political systems of domination?
The core question is:
What social organization and protocols will we tie to our money and resources and will shape the power that we build to dismantle all social, economic, and political systems of domination?
We know a select few – many of whom already come from wealth – are making tons off of crypto right now…
What liberatory application can poor and working-class people currently see through crypto in markets defined by gamification, accumulation, and technical barriers to entry?
What liberatory application can poor and working-class people currently see through crypto in markets defined by gamification, accumulation, and technical barriers to entry?
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