I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of ‘hitlerites’
I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?
This isn’t historically accurate nor does it appear to be working. Building up dual power is a proven method of revolution, but it requires millitancy. We don’t actually have widespread examples of cooperative production outperforming organized industry, nor a reason to predict that will happen. FOSS has the foothold it does because the Capital required to build it is relatively inexpensive, but dogmatically transfering that to other industries goes against Dialectical Materialism.
Mondragon Corporation, Spanish Civil War, Syrian Revolutionary Left, and countless mutual aid initiatives illustrate that cooperative production is not only viable but can outperform centralized systems when given the opportunity to scale. The historical limitations of cooperatives were largely due to their isolation and the hostile environments in which they emerged, often as localized responses to crises. Today, however, the situation is fundamentally different. This is no longer about isolated groups trying to set up decentralized systems in panic or under siege. Instead, we are witnessing the emergence of a global network of tools, practices, and knowledge being built, shared, and iterated upon. This network allows for unprecedented collaboration and scalability, making it a unique historical development that reflects an evolutionary leap in social organization. No widespread examples because this has never happened before, and it is only going to happen once.
FOSS demonstrates how decentralized, cooperative production can scale and compete with centralized industry in a domain traditionally dominated by capital-intensive models. While the material conditions of other industries differ, the dialectical process suggests that emerging contradictions, such as the inefficiencies of centralized production and the growing accessibility of decentralized technologies, create opportunities for cooperative systems to expand. The failure to consider these material developments and their revolutionary potential itself goes against dialectical materialism, which emphasizes historical progression through contradictions and their resolution.
Agorism, by fostering decentralized, counter-economic systems, aligns with the principles of dual power and dialectical materialism. It recognizes the importance of building alternatives while confronting and undermining the dominant structures of power. This does not negate the need for militancy but broadens its scope to include economic and social resistance as critical components of systemic transformation. The present moment is not just another iteration of past efforts but the culmination of a dialectical process where global connectivity, shared knowledge, and cooperative innovation provide the material basis for a stateless, cooperative society. Far from being at odds with dialectical materialism, agorism embodies its principles by addressing contradictions in the current mode of production and building the groundwork for an unprecedented societal ®evolution.
Mondragon isn’t outscaling large manufacturing, and the Spanish and Syrian Anarchists are violent revolutionaries, not your mythical peaceful ones.
Again, there is a case to be made of cooperative production with low barriers to entry for Capital, not for large-scale manufacturing, despite your insistence otherwise.
Again, the peaceful one only happens once, globally. Advances in decentralized manufacturing, open-source hardware, and blockchain technology are reducing barriers to entry, enabling cooperatives to scale rapidly through global networks. This evolution represents a qualitative leap, where cooperative systems are no longer isolated attempts but interconnected and scalable in ways previously unimaginable.
You say they are enabling all of this rapid expansion, but they haven’t, and there’s no indication that they will.
Again, early days. But inevitable once the tooling matures.
Loomio: A collaborative decision-making tool that facilitates inclusive and democratic processes within organizations, enhancing cooperative governance.
Platform 6: A project aimed at building a community of cooperative development, providing virtual spaces for co-ops and cooperators to support each other.
OpenDesk: A platform offering open-source furniture designs, enabling local makers to produce and distribute custom furniture globally.
Provenance: A blockchain-based platform that ensures supply chain transparency, allowing cooperatives to build consumer trust by verifying the ethical origins of their products.
Wevolver: A platform facilitating global collaboration on open-source hardware projects, fostering cooperative innovation in various technological fields.
DisCO (Distributed Cooperative Organizations): An initiative combining cooperative principles with decentralized technologies to create scalable, distributed networks for shared work and resources.
Agricultural Data Cooperatives: Platforms like AgriDigital use blockchain to provide transparent and decentralized systems for farmers, enabling cooperatives to manage supply chains more efficiently.
Hive (Worker Cooperative): A worker-owned cooperative utilizing decentralized tools to operate rideshare services, demonstrating tech-enabled logistics and local ownership.
The Commons Engine: Leverages blockchain technology and Holochain to create decentralized networks for cooperative resource sharing and value exchange.
3D Hubs: A decentralized manufacturing network connecting makers and cooperatives worldwide to produce custom parts locally, reducing barriers in the manufacturing sector.
CommonsCloud: A cooperative cloud computing platform offering open-source tools for businesses and organizations to collaborate globally without relying on centralized tech giants.
Resonate: A cooperative music streaming platform that uses blockchain and open-source technology to create a scalable, equitable alternative to traditional streaming services.
FabLabs: A global network of decentralized fabrication laboratories using open-source designs and shared tools to empower local production and cooperative innovation.
CoopCycle: A federation of bike delivery cooperatives using shared open-source logistics software, allowing cooperatives to scale their operations efficiently.
You have not proven scalability of cooperativr, horizontalist large industry and the lack of necessity for violence in revolution, or threat of violence, at any stage.
Of course I have. Probably just hard to accept you missed the most obvious choice. A revolution which is based on violence and murder can only lead to tyranny. But hey I’m sure it’ll be different this time. And even if it is. Where do you think we’ll go from there? More centralisation?