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This is how revolutionary Marxism functions. Nobody knows what the hell Marx wrote in those books, or what any of it means, but it cannot be argued in communist
by ipnon 5y ago
This is how revolutionary Marxism functions. Nobody knows what the hell Marx wrote in those books, or what any of it means, but it cannot be argued in communist regimes that there is a system in place, and that the vanguard knows whats best. Replace Marxism with Agile, communist regimes with corporation, and vanguard with management, and you have the recipe for soulless employment.
- koonsolo 5y ago> but it cannot be argued in communist regimes And here lies the difference: agile includes retrospectives. I It's the only thing you need for agile. And if you don't have that, you don't have agile.
- invaliduser 5y agoWell, it depends. I have seen many teams where retrospectives are basically a lot of personal mea culpas, people talking about what they did not do right, and it was mostly about how they should have done things differently rather than how the process or organisation could be adapted. The overall feeling is that agile works great, scrum works great, so if something went wrong it's because of the human factor and that's what should be fixed... I don't know about communism, but at some places the implementation of agile sounds like a regime.
- disk0 5y agoPeople (read: Twitter users)[0] have discussed the parallels between Maoist/Marxist theory and both Agile and extreme programming—albeit less fever-dreamy [0] A couple of said theory tweets, from memory https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1352450003231506432 https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1352450003231506432 https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1323758677099270147 https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1323758677099270147
- nerdponx 5y agoBut this is a joke... right? I hope? Side note: I have never actually read anything written by Mao before. That stuff is a very unsettling combination of stone-cold and unhinged. Maybe it's just because we know the "full" history now, maybe it's just the phrasing of the translation. Yikes.
- ipnon 5y agoReading Mao himself is imperative to understanding why China went through the troubles it did. Maoism was the engine of misery in revolutionary China.
- FredPret 5y agoImagine a revolution with a retrospective
- ipnon 5y agoWe could call it an election!