CaptainSwing

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by CaptainSwing 12y ago
I think that you are simplifying the perspective of the bloggers here. They have been writing updates on workers struggles and other incidents of civil unrest in China over the last few decades, and I think that, from a libertarian communis
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by CaptainSwing 12y ago
really beautiful.. thanks for sharing
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
the term 'post-socialist' is generally termed 'communist'. Allendes Chile was actually relatively moderate in its socialism, in the sense that he was a radical reformist rather than a revolutionary. I agree, however, tha
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
I second this. For anybody who cant be fucked sear hing up the link on wikipedia the Eden Medina book is called 'cybernetic revolutionaries'. It's a great piece of research (although, in my opinion, lacking somewhat on both p
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
This is interesting. Do you have any ideas why? Did google simply deem it not profitable enough to send their camera-vans round bratislava, or are there particular reasons that make it more expensive there (regulations of some kind, a fuck-
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
oh dear, we don't want that. back to the drawing board...
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
I fucking love this comment.
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
I have a serious problem with this form of philanthropy, and in its mroe extreme form this libertarian desire to replace tax with voluntary donations to 'charity', and it is quite simple. It basically implements a system of '
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
Can we infer from this that using ad-block is a form of low intensity class war? I (as an ad-block user) like this idea. I think that its perhaps a bit of a stretch to call reddit an 'anti-capitalist' group, but for sure the capit
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
I think that it is important to separate our understanding of relative exploitation/privilege from notions of structural exploitation/privilege. two points on this. firstly, luxury is relative. As workers (I know its unpopular in
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
facebook (could be replaced with youtube, or twitter) make their money from (or, at least,convince investors they will at some point make money from) user generated content, as it is user generated content which draws in the eyes which the
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
Here is the copy/pasted text for those those who cant be fucked with the auto-scrolling website. "They say it’s friendship. We say it’s unwaged work. With every like, chat, tag or poke our subjectivity turns them a profit.They cal
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Wages For Facebook(wagesforfacebook.com)
4 points by CaptainSwing 13y ago|12 comments
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
no matter whether these rumours are true or not, does HN think that simply spreading such rumours can increase pressure on Sony/Microsoft/Apple etc to to consider the conditions under which their commodities are produced?
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Console Wars or Class War?(kotaku.com)
1 points by CaptainSwing 13y ago|1 comments
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The Ten Ninety Nihilists(libcom.org)
1 points by CaptainSwing 13y ago|0 comments
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by CaptainSwing 13y ago
There is a great deal of anarchist and libertarian communist literature critiquing the modern concept of work, notably Russian anarchist Kropotkin's book 'the conquest of bread' originally written in around 1906. http:&#x2F