Constructive Criticism

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Jan 12, 2023
Life on the Virtual Commune
The following is written as a sort of near future sci-fi short story, to illustrate life in a virtual commune.…
Jan 12, 2023
Class Struggle Voltron: Let’s invent new organizational forms
This post proposes a new organizational form called a “virtual commune”. If you want to jump right into what that form could look like in practice, check out this post.…
Jan 12, 2023
Theorem on co-option
This is just a short note on the idea of “base vs superstructure”. The distinction is often made in Marxism between the economic base and the “superstructure”, which are the “non-economic” forms of life.…
Nov 21, 2022
The Communist Hypothesis (poem)
I threw a leaf in the stream. After smoothly travelling downstream a little, It gets stuck against a rock. I stood watching that leaf, and then:…
Oct 27, 2022
Towards making correct decisions: Against moralism
Moralism is a certain pattern of thinking (and an accompanying rhetoric) which many comrades use, sometimes unknowingly. The purpose of this note is to clarify what this pattern is and to explain why it does not always lead to the correct decisions.…