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"Its only by thinking about his break from Eurocentrism in conjunction with the break from productivism occasioned by his research into ecology that the true nature of Marx’s shift in thought comes into focus. (...) an even more surprising interpretation arises than the simple shift from a singular path to multiple possible paths to reach the promised land of communism. In short, it represents a fundamental change in the nature of Marx’s conception of communism itself, its new face revealed at the end of his life."

"The rule by code, characterized by the instrumentalization of computer code to serve the interests of powerful tech companies, thus presents itself as the software equivalent of the rule by law, characterized by the arbitrary wielding of laws to serve the interests of powerful sovereigns. (...) While both traditional online platforms and blockchain-based systems rely on code to regulate online behaviors, there is nonetheless a fundamental difference in the way these two systems operate. Because there is no centralized authority controlling a public and permissionless blockchain network (i.e., there is no sovereign), blockchain technology provides for the establishment of code-based rules that are difficult to co-opt for the benefits of a few."

"Responding to sociological work on trust, it [this book] argues that blockchain technology could best be understood as a “confidence machine” even though the need for trust is not eliminated but rather dispersed within a distributed network of actors."

"The easier “being wrong” is for you (the faster you can release your viewpoint), the quicker you can adapt to changing circumstances. (...) consider that the place where you are wrong might be the most fertile ground for connecting with and receiving others. And in a beautiful twist, being soft in your rightness, as opposed to smashing people with your brilliance, can open others up to whatever wisdom you’ve accumulated."

@sol2070 aí me parece que voltamos ao trecho que compartilhei no começo e ao seu comentário de que as coisas podemos ser mais parecidas do que contrastantes (se você está aberto a aprender com cada pensador.) Fico feliz por nossa interação sobre este tópico. :)

@sol2070 Acredito que muitos seres humanos, líderes e seguidores, com suas próprias interpretações de certos conceitos e filosofias, fizeram e vão continuar fazendo merda. Não sou muito bom de Marxismo ou Comunismo, mas não lembro de Marx estar de acordo com Stalin e os colegas da URSS mandar o povo pro paredão. Cavando bem, um vai encontrar pessoas do movimento anarquista detonando bomba na geral, e cooperativas tão alinhadas com o capitalismo quanto muita corporação. Meu ponto: Criticar o coleguinha é fácil (não estou falando de você ou ninguém específico); difícil é criar e crescer comunidades capazes de sobreviver com valores não capitalistas (mesmo sendo esta a única forma real de reverter a lambança criada por este último). :(

"what’s really at stake here is a collapse of the collective imagination of a technology (i.e., the internet) that is playing such a pivotal role in the everyday life of billions, one that nonetheless can be shaped, steered, designed, bent towards unofficial purposes. The closing of the possibility of change has been going on for a decade or more, replaced by smooth user interfaces and cat videos."

@sol2070 EXATO! Tava discutindo com a patroa como estou cada vez menos interessado nessa disputa de escolas: li três textos recentemente, um dizendo que o outro não funciona (comunismo, anarquismo, cooperismo), mas no final, todos querem a mesma sociedade... Eu quero é que o povo viva formas anti-capitalistas... Precisamos de um mundo plural, inúmeros experientos de reorganização local de comunidades empoderadas.

"As Zizek says here, communism is nothing less than the conscious attempt to reconstruct the commons—knowledge, nature, human rights, society—dismantled by capitalism.

It's not well known, but Marx in fact referred to the society to come, a society founded on the reconstructed commons, as one of “free association.” When he spoke of this future society, Marx seldom used the words “socialism” or “communism.” Rather, he preferred to refer to the “free association” of producers. The voluntary mutual aid between workers characterizing such an association is the ultimate realization of the commons."

"The clearer you are as a group about where you’re going, the more you can relax into collaborative innovation around how to get there. You can relax into decentralization, and you want to."

"It is a category error to say that a haiku is “concise.” It is not like a bigger, wordier poem that has been boiled down to one image, some concentrate or demi-glace of a landscape. It is more like a tiny 300,000,000-volt thundercloud. Or the reader is the cloud, electric with potential, and the haiku is the single tree on a hill." -- George Estreich