We do not live in an post information scarcity society. Also information doesn’t work like electricity, so even if we did this is still stupid.
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Perhaps we live in a post DATA scarcity society. But information is still a scarce commodity
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Can we stop posting about communism every single day?
Unfortunately for the post scarcity information society, the capitalists are in fact moving on — to fascism.
Fascism is the violent reaction to the fall of Capitalism, just as fascism is on the rise, so is Socialism. The fight against fascism is critical, as that which replaces Capitalism will be either Socialism or fascism.
It is up to the Socialists to beat the fascists so that we don't end up down that dark timeline.
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Capitalism will collapse eventually, whether planned or not. The best we can do is build up parallel structures that can weather that collapse, like complex networks of Mutual Aid, strong Unions, FOSS software, and more.
I like this view of parallel structures
Best we can do is fascism and climate apocalypse.
Fascism is similarly unsustainable, if we fail and can't achieve Socialism from Capitalism then fascism will take its place, and will also collapse. Same with climate, if we fail to properly handle it we will almost certainly go extinct, but the door remains open for life in millenia.
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Firstly, capitalism isn't going to just "poof" away just because there are more resources available. The rich will just hold them back to create artificial scarcity - like is done with diamonds.
Secondly, even discounting that, there are plenty of resources that are genuinely scarce no matter how much money you have to throw at the problem.
But if you're referring to just the scarcity of information - then you're still not quite right as not all that information out there is good information - a lot of it is misinformation (i.e. propaganda, etc.)...
And even that discounts the fact that for many people, they don't have the tools/capability to access the information, or simply can't access the information full stop (I.e. due to censorship, etc.).
Lol
Your premise is wrong in like... A bunch of ways. We sure as shit do not live in a post-scarcity society lol
Yeah I was confused by this. The world is pretty far off post-scarcity! Might need more context here
I specifically said we are in a post-scarcity information society. I didn't say everything is post-scarcity.
So a post-information-scarcity society. It means something else with different word-order.
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lol. Tell that to the scientific papers you have to pay for otherwise they’ll run out and the researchers won’t be able to research.
So you're saying that everyone has sufficient and easy access to information? How does that relate to capitalism?
Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services. Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.
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Capitalism won't overthrow itself.
It's collapsing by itself but I don't think that's fast enough. (And a hard crash will mean a lot of trouble, we need a transition)
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The rubes need something to collect so they can lord over you. They don't want an intelligent society. They want something they can game to get big numbers.
In 1980, 'middle class' was still defined as one job paying for a family of four. In those days $1 million was still considered a vast fortune. By the time Bush Sr. left office 'middle class' was two salaries to support a family and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
To be fair, "middle class" isn't a real class, the closest is petite bourgeoisie. What's thought of as the middle class doesn't necessarily have the same class interests, as they vary in social relation to the Means of Production.
When you're discussing politics you have two choices. You can avoid highly specific terms and focus on real world problems, or you can parse out the meaning of every single word and win a meaningless argument.
99% of the people in America know exactly what I mean when I say 'middle class.' Maybe 5% know what 'petite bourgeoisie' means. Probably less. You don't win elections by arguing the difference between the Social Democrats and the socialists, you win them by talkign to people about how much a gallon of gas costs.
Yes, but at the same time, this is just an argument for using terms incorrectly and perpetuating bourgeois terminology. The idea of a "Middle Class" was invented in order to give the Proletariat a realistic goal (in their eyes) to work towards, in order to divide the Proletariat against itself.
If more people understand class dynamics, they will also understand more about their surroundings, and will also be able to better think for themselves, instead of you trying to do all of the thinking for them.
Education is important.
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