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I want a system designed by people who know how to design systems. I want those systems to be greed-proof and have clearly laid out goals. I want economic systems to be circular with caps on the highest and lowest while still rewarding those who excel.
I want corporate and income controls. I want environmental policy that fucks over economic policy instead of the opposite. I want to heavily discourage corporate manipulation of human systems (such as addiction).
I want news to be publicly funded and with honesty legally mandated. I want more and better political parties. I want a legal system that doesn't need a degree and endless buckets of money to tell you if you're committing a crime or not. I want a legal system that applies to rich and poor in equal measure and with proportional punishments.
Yeah, I want a revolution. The problem is that everyone who also wants a revolution has a very different idea of the outcome of that revolution and I don't want someone to get in their idiot head that murdering everyone else who deviates from their revolution is a good idea. Because it isn't unless you want the revolution to be won by 10 hyper-opinionated assholes.
Yeah, reading through the history of the revolutionary period in China through the 60s and 70s shows how just murdering people to be the one in charge isn't enough. You end up with murderers and psychopaths in charge at the end. The ones who were the best at fucking people over.
That said. I'm pretty sure we could do with a handful of the current psychopaths that are charge falling out some windows.
Now, they are the happiest people in the world. /s
Amazing! I heard they all have their own ponies and people get free iPhones on their birthday
Every citizen has had an Apple Vision Pro for at least 2 years.
Considering their creative views on intellectual property it was probably the Fruit Eyes Expert from AliExpress
This might help.
With what? I know what a revolution is and how they can function.
I was speaking about the outcomes. Just because you get that many people together to agree that something must be done, doesn't mean they agree with what will happen after you've won the revolution.
What policies will be put into place if any? What about when two groups who were formerly together in the revolution completely disagree on what to do with the systems they are building? Do they just all kill each other then?
Sorry. I think I responded to the wrong comment. What you are talking about is Prefigurative Politics. You want the means to justify the end. The problem with revolutions is that it is a coalition against an established power with different ideas of what comes after. I wish I had an answer for you, but I’m just beginning to explore this aspect. Vincent Bevins has a recent book that get into why protests fail and explores the lack of prefiguration in planning. I haven’t read it though. I heard of it from a recent Upstream podcast. Hope it helps.
I appreciate the links and the discussion (not to mention the not devolving into insulting rhetoric).
I am heavily involved in local politics and I'm always interested in revolutionary policies as long as they are economically sound and actually function. Unlike many arguments I'm sure we both had online, I will actively read the links you posted to me.
“All politics are local.” Your actions are commendable and you are a hero.
galleanists are ardently against prefigurative theories of revolution, and i am tending toward them lately.
I’m ignorant about Galleanists. Where should I look to learn?
you found the best source i can find. click a coupla the links there.
i also found a book written by his grandchild available on archive.org for digital lending.
I’ll give it a look. Thanks.