So I’ve spent a bit of time over the past few years trying to reason my way trough society breaking away from our capitalist overlords.
Let me try to summarize some of my thinking as simply as possible; you start a second economy, one founded using Blockchain technologies and algocracy, with an utter focus on human welfare and ensuring resistance to tampering and unjust accumulation of power and wealth. You siphon the global population over to this new economy effectively stifling the old economy where the totality of the 1%'s wealth resides and is therefore rendered worthless.
The above is by no means a complete summary and there are a bunch of other concepts loosely associated with this such as environmental sustainability, transhumanism, degrowth, fostering small communities etc.
I’ve written about DACs, one of the components of the above here: https://sturlabragason.github.io/blog/2023/07/04/Decentralized-Autonomous-Communities.html
The technology used to achieve socialism is irrelevant. The lack of technology was never the issue.
We know what we must do. End private property. That’s it.
How we organize the economy in specifics is not important. Not in such details as you go through.
The real system that will be born from the principles of communism and ashes of capitalism will not be exactly what anyone envisions.
I feel Marx understood this, which is why he hesitated to much to prescribe.
Valid points. Regrettably my Donning Kruger effect is not strong enough to allow me to believe I have the solution. However, conceptually, I like to imagine of things working like scalable software implementations. Create a system that can be “easily” implemented such as creating a single DAC, I mean CityDAO is already a few years down the road and they seem to be doing alright. Starting small and scaling up seems like something that could be more easily experimented with, than running whole Marx-derivative states.
Being a very literal person; I like implementation specifics more than only proposing ideals and theories 😊.
It would benefit you a lot to read theory then. That should be the framework, not vague ideas of leftism.
We already spent hundreds of years on theory, work your practice based on that, not on nothing.
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Well find some ppl irl that are well versed in theory and have interest in praxis as well. Go to meetings of groups etc. talk to people. Then after some time of absorbing that and coming up with solutions, present them to the group.
Basically if you can admit you don’t have a solid basis for your solutions (theory wise) it means you would gain a lot from listening more. You’d be surprised by how good your own ideas can get after some years of listening to people and their ideas.
Doesn’t mean you can’t tinker and come up with ideas in the meantime. Just have the self-consciousness to recognise they probably are still not it y’know.
Yeah I apologize if I seemed dismissive of theory in general.
Here is my general outlook, which is heavily biased by my background in software development. Everything can and should be improved by iterative process, and can be operated on in a similar manner to open-source software. If my concepts are lacking in theory that is simply because they should be viewed as incomplete and open for MAJOR improvements, in all areas. They should be improved upon by a team of experts, and improvements made where needed. They are living and breathing and currently in release 0.0.1. They can be forked and modified. They can have upstream and downstream dependencies. They should be a part mesh of components, practical, theoretical, physical, digital etc.
Also it’s my garbage answer for anything I can’t answer right now; “it’ll be fixed in the future by iterative process” 😄