Politics Constellation

Political subjects I’ve written notes on:

• Privacy
• Security
• Education

Organize:

• Humanity is only poor because the products of our labor are seized by a few owners
• Since every creation is the culmination of countless contributors, no single individual should be able to claim it as their own
• Capitalism forces the worker to give up much of what they produce❗️
• People go without because the bourgeois will limit production in order to keep prices up
• A lot of work in a capitalist system is wasted on useless products
• Every product is to some extent dependent on the external community
• A communist society would be forced to immediately abandon all wage systems
• Communist tendencies can be seen in all individualist societies
• Individualist societies still have many services that do not measure individual consumption or contribution to society before use
• Organization would be more efficient and less constraining without government intervention
• Expropriation
• The wealth of the rich is derived from the poverty of the poor
• No one will sell their labour if they are given access to all things civilization produces
• The whole economy must be expropriated simultanuosly to ensure the success of the revolution
• Food, clothes and housing must also be expropriated as they are as necessary to the worker as intruments of production are themselves
• The revolution must handle food before any other issue
• The revolution should begin by taking possesion of and keeping account of all food
• Upon revolution, wage labour must be abolished immediatly in order to ensure that people can be fed
• Communes will not limit the consumption of abundent resources, and will only do so whenever it becomes scarce
• We should let people organize themselves freely according to immediate need
• The productive force of labour increased by capitalism must be seized by the workers to ensure well-being for all
• Under capitalism, even the well-being of highpayed workers is volatile and insecure
• Writers in an anarcho-communist society with work with collaborators instead of publishers to get their work published
• The greatest science is always self-financed
• Directly seeing our well-being increase in proportion to our work is a better motivator to work than a wage
• Most of the so-called lazy have simply found themselves in the wrong place
• Many people condemn laziness without enquiring into it’s cause
• It is often workplaces who work together without supervision who see the good quality of the work
• Upon abolishing private property, wages would also have to be abolished along with it
• A distinction between professional and simple work results in social inequalities
• Collectivist remuneration will only perpetuate the injustices of capitalist society
• Since work is the a collaborative effort of the whole of society, it is impossible to measure the individual value of labour
• The collectivists are aware that the needs of the individual do not always correspond to their works
• We should begin the organization of production around the needs of the people, rather than beginning with production
• Eugenics had dismissed the democratic ideal that all people are of equal value
• The eugenics movement first took hold in the United States in the late 1800s when immigration began to increase and immigrants filled asylums
• Eugenics had spread from America to Nazi Germany when their economy fell after world war I and they couldn’t afford to place mentally ill soldiers in asylums
• German eugenicists were funded by wealthy Americans to accumulate evidence that mental illness was speading genetically
• The high rate of sterilization in Nazi Germany encouraged the U.S. and other countries to pick up the pace
• Nazi Germany was inspired by U.S. eugenicists to begin killing the unfit
• Support for the killing of the unfit began to slowly spead in the U.S. after 1911
• In 1940, Nazi Germany had began using gas chambers to kill the unfit after being advised to do so by U.S. eugenicists
• Some leftists try to silence apposing ideas or form safe spaces from them because they believe it may harm those who’s own subjective experience is invalidated
• Intersectionality

General

• Anarchism
• Capitalism
• Capital
• Socialism
• Communism
• Common ownership
• Private property
• Means of production
• Bourgeoisie
• Proletariat
• Wage-slavery
• Capitalist businesses must turn a profit for the owners in order to survive
• Caring about ethical matters is harmful for capitalist institutions because its not profitable
• Businesses seek to form monopolies so they can increase profits by maximizing prices
• Businesses seek to pay workers as little as possible increase profits
• The pursuit of profit by businesses leads to ever-increasing wealth accumulation and inequality
• Upon abolishing private property, wages would also have to be abolished along with it

Privacy / Security / Surveillance

• Ubiquitous surveillence and data mining eliminates the ephemerality of our past words and actions
• The law can find a reason to convict anyone if they have enough data on them
• Data mining can lead us into trouble in the present for something that wasn’t considered wrong previously
• Society will have no chance of progress if surveillance prevents it from deviating our current beliefs and values
• Surveillence leads people to refrain from speaking and acting freely
• Privacy allows us to selectively reveal aspects of ourselves depending on the situation
• Violations of privacy may vary depending on the context
• There are many things that we choose to keep private that are not necessarily wrong
• Mass surveillence and data mining is more suitable for population discrimination than for legal investigations
• Censorship is more about preventing effective organization than for banishing harmful ideas
• Privately owned cloud computing and user devices give companies compete control over our digital environment
• Politicians can use surveillence data to discriminate as away to sell canidates for political decisions
• Our online data makes us a product which internet companies sell to their real customers
• Both corporate and government surveillence support and on rely each other
• The SNAFU principle
• In every authoritarian structure, ones views must accord with their superiors rather than with objective reality in order to prevent oppression
• Every ruler has their preestablished views reinforced by their subordinates because they’re afraid to tell them contrary opinions
• Participation in spying-and-hiding transactions will eventually produce the classic symptonms of clinical paranoia
• The secret police create a social context for the return to the mechanisms of the Holy Inquisition
• Every conspiracy regards itself as an affinity group

Education

• Public schooling fosters confusion through a fragmented and out of context material
• Forced material and class schedules leads students to become indifferent towards self-initiaited learning
• The numbering, grading, and ordering of students conditions them to tacitly accept their hierachical position
• The use of positive and negative reinforcement in schools condition students for emotional dependence on authority
• Schools encourage intellectual dependency towards authority by discouraging inquiry
• School grades teach students to believe that their self-worth depends on expert opinion
• Constant evaluation in schools teaches students that they are under constant surveillence and that privacy is illegitamate
• Public schools serve to manufacture a manageable population and to put down dissent and originality
• The US public schooling system has its roots in Prussia
• Alexander Inglis
• Alexander Inglis six basic functions of school
• the adaptive function
• the integrating function
• the differentiating function
• the selective function
• The propaedeutic function
• The poor child-rearing in societies are necessary to create people who fit the standard roles of traditional society
• The US public schooling system has its roots in Prussia
• Schools maintain a continuous present by seperating children and old people from adults
• We need to adopt a means of education which embraces independent study and encourages self-reliance
• A school reform should reintigrate the family

Other

• Genetic theories of medical or mental conditions can enable people or society to absolve themselves from responsibility
• Societies swing back and forth between matrist and patrist values
• Anyone who can scare people enough can sell any semantic map that seems to give them relief
• A negative imprint of the limbic system leads one to see everything as dangerous, hostile and frightening
• As civilization has advanced, the bio-survival bond with the gene pool has been replaced with a bio-survival bond with money
• Suicide rates rise in accordance with the rise of interest rates
• Bio-survival anxiety will only permanently disappear when everyone has enough money
• Capitalism destroys sources of stable identity so that it can market new ones
• Capitalism needs people who can quickly jump from one identity the next
• Psychiatric categories fulfill the need for stable identities in our chaotic late capitalist society
• For many people, mental illness categories are more for providing definitive identities and predictability in our chaotic late capitalist society than for mental health
• True politics is something you actively live rather than an ideology to identify with

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