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Absolutely right. But what I've noticed is, it's acceptable to characterise technological authoritarianism and anti-humanism as "technofascism". Because we "all
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
Absolutely right. But what I've noticed is, it's acceptable to
characterise technological authoritarianism and anti-humanism as
"technofascism". Because we "all hate fascists" right? It's almost de
rigueur. But naming it as "techno-communism" [0] or mentioning the
Cosmist connection to techno-utopianism normally gets me marked down
in these parts. Odd what waters flow underground.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_automated_luxury_communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_automated_luxury_communi...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism
- georgeplusplus 3y agoAs someone who has lived in a communist country It hurts when I hear communism is good in theory or that true communism has never been tried. Yes it has and its awful.