Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Italy's Radical Solution to Extreme Inequality - YouTube 2026-07-05T05:51:03+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMZR64G_eM robertogreco economics cooperatives emilia-romagna emiliaromagna reggioemilia labor work hierarchy 2025 moreperfect union inequality workers ownership power equality production italia italy verazamagni business consolidation billionaires socialism mussolini benitomussolini fascism control grassroots governance resistance corporations corporatism legcoop law legal profits history coops wealth social socialcoops socialcooperatives decisionmaking finance snupotapinassi privateequity firenze florence marcora marcoralaw francescoborgomeo struggle solidarity globalization johnrussell democracy ilariabertinelli rural farming farmers agriculture stefanocacchioli paolobarbieri cplconcordia sharing cooperation community society danielemontroni wealthhoarding manufacturing collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f8fbdffb840/ The Problems With Democracy - YouTube 2026-06-18T02:37:27+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5JEJ_L_Zjg robertogreco andrewism 2026 democracy anarchy anarchism society athens mikhailbakunin williamgillis davidgraeber socialism murraybookchin robertdahl freedom bobblack scottpage shawnwilbur oligarchy authoritarianism dictatorship urigordon statism state stateviolence left leftism representativedemocracy andrewsage consensus decisionmaking zapatistas authority decentralization participatory participation governance government lorenzokom'boaervin wayneprice kevincarson lucyparsons pierre-josephproudhon proudhon oscarwilde rulership power rule autonomy hierarchy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4d78cd0a64b7/ The AI movement to end humanity | The Gray Area - YouTube 2026-06-12T13:24:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30d7FR8YP0 robertogreco sigalsamuel seanilling ai artificialintelligence aisuccessionism tescreal elonmusk eugenics transhumanism singularity singularitarianism effectivealtruism cosmism rationalism intelligence hierarchy 2026 religion mortality longtermism humanity humans technooptimism marcandreessen consciousness humanextinction purpose christianity humanism belief salvation transcendence politics technology human philosophy antihumanism antihuman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b3fddb76f742/ Let’s save the Enlightenment baby from its muddied bathwater | Aeon Essays 2026-06-12T02:11:29+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/lets-save-the-enlightenment-baby-from-its-muddied-bathwater robertogreco 2026 enlightenment elianeglaser emmanueleze charlesmills kehindeandrews kant johnlocke voltaire davidhume henrydundas progress willhutton justice accountability socialfairness science siliconvalley peterthiel jdvance curtisyarvin darkenlightenment democracy equality inequality stevenpinker reason humanism globalsouth left leftists socialjustice davidbell economics power misinformation disinformation deepfakes ai artificialintelligence kateclanchy zizek intellectualhumility humility josephwright jeanlerondd'alembert montesquieu adamsmith jameshutton thomasreid mosesmendelssohn dorindaoutram marywollstonecraft angelasaini carllinnaeus humanity rousseau hierarchy hierarchies haiti china altruism humanitarianism jonathanisrael slavery abolition webdubois anticolonialism richardwhatmore discord frenchrevolution donaldtrump tolerance identitarians nationalism petergay ethnocentrism morality universalism objecttivity society corporations corporatism billionaires eleanorroosevelt humanrights pcchang totalitarianism t https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4596863a6be8/ Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries | libcom.org 2026-06-12T01:37:06+00:00 https://libcom.org/article/address-revolutionaries-algeria-and-all-countries robertogreco"Proletarian revolutions . . . pitilessly scoff at the hesitations, weaknesses and inadequacies of their first efforts, seem to throw down their adversary only to see him draw new strength from the earth and rise again formidably before them, recoil again and again before the immensity of their tasks, until a situation is finally created that goes beyond the point of no return." --Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Comrades, The collapse of the revolutionary image presented by the international Communist movement is taking place forty years after the collapse of the revolutionary movement itself. This time gained for the bureaucratic lie -- that supplement to the permanent bourgeois lie -- has been time lost for the revolution. The history of the modern world pursues its revolutionary course, but unconsciously or with false consciousness. Everywhere there are social confrontations, but nowhere is the old order destroyed, not even within the very forces that contest it. Everywhere the ideologies of the old world are criticized and rejected, but nowhere is "the real movement that suppresses existing conditions" liberated from one or another "ideology" in Marx's sense of the word: ideas that serve masters. Revolutionaries are everywhere, but nowhere is there any real revolution. The recent collapse of the Ben-Bellaist image of a quasi-revolution in Algeria is a striking example of this general failure. The superficial power of Ben Bella represented the moment of rigid balance between the movement of the Algerian workers toward the management of the entire society and the bourgeois bureaucracy in the process of formation within the framework of the state. But in this official balance the revolution had nothing with which to further its objectives -- it had already become a museum piece -- whereas those in possession of the state controlled all power, beginning with that fundamental repressive instrument, the army, to the point of finally being able to throw off their mask, i.e. Ben Bella. Two days before the putsch, at Sidi Bel Abbes, Ben Bella added the ridiculous to the odious by declaring that Algeria was "more united than ever." Now he has stopped lying to the people and the events speak for themselves. Ben Bella fell as he had reigned, in solitude and conspiracy, by a palace revolution. He was ushered out by the same forces that had ushered him in: Boumédienne's army, which had opened the road to Algiers for him in September 1962. Ben Bella's regime ratified the revolutionary conquests that the bureaucracy was not yet able to repress: the self-management movement. The forces so well hidden behind the "Muslim Brother" Boumédienne have this clear goal: to eliminate all self-management. The June 19th Declaration sums up the policy of the new regime with a mixture of Western technocratic jargon and bombast about enforcing Islamic moral values: "We must put a stop to the current stagnation, which is already manifesting itself in lowered productivity, decreasing profitability and a disturbing withdrawal of investments," while "keeping in mind our faith, our convictions and the secular traditions and moral values of our people." The astonishing acceleration of practical demystification must now serve to accelerate revolutionary theory. The same society of alienation, of totalitarian control (here the sociologist predominates, there the police), and of spectacular consumption (here the cars and gadgets, there the words of the venerated leader) reigns everywhere, despite the diversity of its ideological and juridical disguises. The coherence of this society cannot be understood without an all-encompassing critique, illuminated by the inverse project of a liberated creativity, the project of everyone's control of all levels of their own history. This is the demand in acts of all proletarian revolutions, a demand until now defeated by the specialists of power who take over revolutions and turn them into their own private property. To revive and bring into the present this inseparable, mutually illuminating project and critique entails appropriating all the radicalism borne by the workers movement, by modern Western poetry and art (as preface to an experimental research toward a free construction of everyday life), by the thought of the period of the supersession and realization of philosophy (Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx), and by the liberation struggles from the Mexico of 1910 to the Congo of today. To do this, it is first of all necessary to recognize, without holding on to any consoling illusions, the full extent of the defeat of the entire revolutionary project in the first third of this century and its official replacement, in every region of the world and in every domain of life, by delusive shams and petty reforms that camouflage and preserve the old order. The domination of bureaucratic state-capitalism over the workers is the opposite of socialism -- this is a fact that Trotskyism has refused to face. Socialism exists wherever the workers themselves directly manage the entire society. It therefore exists neither in Russia nor in China nor anywhere else. The Russian and Chinese revolutions were defeated from within. Today they provide the Western proletariat and the peoples of the Third World with a false model which actually serves as a mere counterbalance to the power of bourgeois capitalism and imperialism. A resumption of radicality naturally requires a considerable deepening of all the old attempts at liberation. Seeing how those attempts failed due to isolation, or were converted into total frauds, enables one to get a better grasp of the coherence of the world that needs to be changed. In the light of this rediscovered coherence, many of the partial explorations of the recent past can be salvaged and brought to their true fulfillment (the liberating content of psychoanalysis, for example, can be neither understood nor realized apart from the struggle for the abolition of all repression).(1) Insight into this reversible coherence of the world -- its present reality in relation to its potential reality -- enables one to see the fallaciousness of half-measures and to recognize the presence of such half-measures each time the operating pattern of the dominant society -- with its categories of hierarchization and specialization and its corresponding habits and tastes -- reconstitutes itself within the forces of negation. Moreover, the material development of the world has accelerated. It constantly accumulates more potential powers; but the specialists of the management of society, because of their role as guardians of passivity, are forced to ignore the potential use of those powers. This same development produces widespread dissatisfaction and objective mortal dangers which these specialized rulers are incapable of permanently controlling. The fundamental problem of underdevelopment must be resolved on a worldwide scale, beginning with the revolutionary overcoming of the irrational overdevelopment of productive forces in the framework of the various forms of rationalized capitalism. The revolutionary movements of the Third World can succeed only on the basis of a lucid contribution to global revolution. Development must not be a race to catch up with capitalist reification, but a satisfaction of all real needs as the basis for a genuine development of human faculties. New revolutionary theory must move in step with reality, it must keep abreast with the revolutionary praxis which is starting up here and there but which yet remains partial, mutilated and without a coherent total project. Our language, which will perhaps seem fantastic, is the very language of real life. History continues to present ever more glaring confirmations of this. If in this history the familiar is not necessarily known, it is because real life itself only appears in a fantastic form, in the upside-down image imposed on it by the modern spectacle of the world: in the spectacle all social life, including even the representation of sham revolutions, is written in the lying language of power and filtered by its machines. The spectacle is the terrestrial heir of religion, the opium of a capitalism that has arrived at the stage of a "society of abundance" of commodities. It is the illusion actually consumed in "consumer society." The sporadic explosions of revolutionary contestation are countered by an international organization of repression, operating with a global division of tasks. Each of the blocs, or of the spinoff splinters of blocs, ensures the lethargic sleep of everyone within its sphere of influence, contributing toward maintaining a global order that remains fundamentally the same. This permanent repression ranges from military interventions to the more or less complete falsification practiced today by every constituted power: "The truth is revolutionary" (Gramsci) and all existing governments, even those issuing out of the most liberatory movements, are based on lies inside and out. It is precisely this repression that constitutes the most resounding verification of our hypotheses. Revolutionary endeavors of today, because they have to break all the rules of false understanding imposed by the "peaceful coexistence" of reigning lies, begin in isolation, in one particular sector of the world or in one particular sector of contestation. Possessing only the most rudimentary conception of freedom, they attack only the most immediate aspect of oppression. As a result, they meet with the minimum degree of aid and the maximum of repression and slander (they are accused of rejecting one existing order while necessarily approving of an existing variant of it). The more difficult their victory, the more easily it is confiscated by new oppressors. The next revolutions can find aid in the world only by attacking this world as a whole. The freedom movement of the American blacks, if it can assert itself incisively, will call into question all the contradictions of modern capitalism; it must not be sidetracked by the "black nationalism" and "black capitalism" of the Black Muslims. The workers of the United States, like those in England, are engaging in "wildcat strikes" against the bureaucratized unions that aim first of all at integrating them into the concentrated, semiregulated capitalist system. It is with these workers and with the students who have just won their strike at the University of California in Berkeley that a North American revolution can be made; and not with the Chinese atom bomb. The movement drawing the Arab peoples toward unification and socialism has achieved a number of victories over classical colonialism. But it is more and more evident that it must finish with Islam, an obviously counterrevolutionary force as are all religious ideologies. It must grant freedom to the Kurdish people. And it must stop swallowing the Palestinian pretext that justifies the dominant policy in the Arab states -- a policy that insists on the destruction of Israel and thereby perpetuates itself since this destruction is impossible. The repressive forces of the state of Israel can be undermined only by a model of a revolutionary society realized by the Arabs. Just as the success of a model of a revolutionary society somewhere in the world would mean the end of the largely sham confrontation between the East and the West, so would end the Arab-Israel confrontation which is a miniature version of it. Revolutionary endeavors of today are abandoned to repression because it is not in the interest of any existing power to support them. So far, no practical organization of revolutionary internationalism exists to support them. We passively watch their combat and only the delusory babble of the UN or of the specialists of "progressive" state powers accompanies their death throes. In Santo Domingo US troops dared to intervene in a foreign country in order to back up fascist army officers against the legal government of the Kennedyist Caamano, simply for fear that he would be overwhelmed by the people he had had to arm. What forces in the world took retaliatory measures against the American intervention? In the Congo in 1960 Belgian paratroopers, UN expeditionary forces and the Mining Association's tailor-made state [Katanga] broke the impetus of the people who thought they had won independence, and killed Lumumba and Mpolo. In 1964 Belgian paratroopers, American transport planes, and South African, European and anti-Castroist Cuban mercenaries pushed back the second insurrectional wave of the Mulelists. What practical aid was provided by "revolutionary Africa"? A thousand Algerian volunteers, victors of a much harder war, would have been enough to prevent the fall of Stanleyville. But the armed people of Algeria had long been replaced by a classical army on lease to Boumédienne, who had other plans. The next revolutions are confronted with the task of understanding themselves. They must totally reinvent their own language and defend themselves against all the forms of cooption prepared for them. The Asturian miners' strike (virtually continuous since 1962) and all the other signs of opposition that herald the end of Francoism do not indicate an inevitable future for Spain, but a choice: either the holy alliance now being prepared by the Spanish Church, the monarchists, the "left Falangists" and the Stalinists to harmoniously adapt post-Franco Spain to modernized capitalism and to the Common Market; or the resumption and completion of the most radical aspects of the revolution that was defeated by Franco and his accomplices on all sides -- the revolution that realized truly socialist human relationships for a few weeks in Barcelona in 1936. The new revolutionary current, wherever it appears, must begin to link up the present contestatory experiences and the people who bear them. While unifying such groups, it must at the same time unify the coherent basis of their project. The first gestures of the coming revolutionary era embody a new content, both visible and hidden, of the critique of present societies, and new forms of struggle; and also the irreducible moments of all the old revolutionary history that has remained in abeyance, moments which reappear like ghosts. Thus the dominant society, which prides itself so much on its constant modernization, is going to meet its match, for it is at last beginning to produce its own modernized negation. Long live the comrades who in 1959 burned the Koran in the streets of Baghdad! Long live the workers councils of Hungary, defeated in 1956 by the so-called Red Army! Long live the dockers of Aarhus who last year effectively boycotted racist South Africa, in spite of their union leadership and the judicial repression of the Danish social-democratic government! Long live the "Zengakuren" student movement of Japan, which actively combats the capitalist powers of imperialism and of the so-called "Communist" bureaucracies! Long live the workers' militia that defended the northeastern districts of Santo Domingo! Long live the self-management of the Algerian peasants and workers! The option is now between the militarized bureaucratic dictatorship and the dictatorship of the "self-managed sector" extended to all production and all aspects of social life. SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL Algiers, July 1965 (circulated clandestinely) [TRANSLATOR'S NOTE] 1. "The discoveries of psychoanalysis have, as Freud suspected, turned out to be unacceptable for the ruling social order -- or for any society based on repressive hierarchy. But Freud's 'centrist' position, stemming from his absolute, ahistorical identification of 'civilization' with repression by exploitation of labor, and thus his carrying out of a partially critical research within an uncriticized overall system, led psychoanalysis to become officially 'recognized' in all its degraded variants without being accepted in its central truth, namely its potential critical use. This failure is of course not exclusively attributable to Freud himself, but rather to the collapse in the 1920s of the revolutionary movement, the only force that could have brought the critical findings of psychoanalysis to some fulfillment. The subsequent period of extreme in reaction in Europe drove out even the partisans of psychoanalytic 'centrism.' The psychoanalytic debris who are now in fashion (in the West, at least) have all developed out of this initial capitulation, in which an unacceptable critical truth was turned into acceptably innocuous verbiage. By surrendering its revolutionary cutting edge, psychoanalysis exposed itself both to being used by all the guardians of the present Sleep and to being disparaged for its insufficiencies by run-of-the-mill psychiatrists and moralists." (Internationale Situationniste #10, p. 63.) "Cardan [Cornelius Castoriadis], who here as elsewhere seems to think that it suffices to speak of something in order to have it, vaguely blathers on about 'imagination' in an attempt to justify the gelatinous flabbiness of his thought. He latches onto psychoanalysis (just as does the official world nowadays) as a justification of irrationality and of the profound motivations of the unconscious, although the discoveries of psychoanalysis are in fact a weapon -- as yet unused due to obvious sociopolitical reasons -- for a rational critique of the world. Psychoanalysis profoundly ferrets out the unconscious, its poverty and its miserable repressive maneuvers, which only draw their force and their magical grandeur from a quite banal practical repression in daily life." (Internationale Situationniste #10, p. 79.) Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology)."]]> situationist 1965 algeria revolution thirdworld mexico congo workers left repression society radicalism capitalism commodities abundance antoniogramsci oppression blacknationalism blackmuslims kurds dominicanrepublic africa latinamerica southafrica japan corneliuscastoriadis keknabb psychoanalysis dictatorship denmark spain españa barcelona franco houariboumédiène mauricempolo patricelumumba franciscocaamaño mulelists islam hierarchy hierarchies china russia ussr sovietunion imperialism socialism hegel ludwigfeuerbach totalitarianism creativity life living consumption consumerism sidibelabbes ahmedbenbella sidibelabbès freud karlmarx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ce4fc6dd5c08/ Wang Hui | What is equality? - YouTube 2026-06-11T23:00:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXqOev4m3vc robertogreco wanghui 2026 china equality religion language civilization tianzia justice interdependence nature beliefs ethnicity culture traditions sociallife social history pluralism interconnected interconnectedness nationstates future hierarchy division dependence coexistence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:862a8e0f5922/ Lessons from the fairness of African fractal societies | Aeon Essays 2026-04-22T03:41:24+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/lessons-from-the-fairness-of-african-fractal-societies robertogreco likamkyanzaire 2026 africa decentralization centralization society fractals circulation reciprocity return roneglash cameroon architecture zambia cities urban urbanplanning place logone-birni geometry design. complexity economics economy europe governance government benoîtmandelbrot benoitmandelbrot recursion self-similarity scale scaling nathancohen china shenzhen gps yanguangchen xiomingman michaelediagbonya yemiebenezeraluko duyilewilliamabiodun nigeria religion art numeracy patterns fractalpatterns socialorder culture lineage mutualaid mutualsupport communities community bonaventurechigozieuzoh iheanyivalentineekechikwu nnamdiazikiwe form kinship flexibility linaeage egalitarianism class hierarchy hierarvhies simonroberts hpgulliver ethnography anthropology solidarity support globalsouth globalnorth value values hoarding extraction equality arusha igbo chokwe ubuntuai openai cooperatives deeplyrooted liberation design institutions concentration diffusion fairness equity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d6b23b6237c/ ‘Reality Decay’ Is at the Root of All the Bad News 2026-04-15T06:58:48+00:00 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/reality-decay-2757167 robertogreco society reality pathology 2026 bendavis paulchan marquisdesade pierpaolopasolini annibelleneilson inequality poverty paulhokemeyer institutions hierarchy melaniatrump brettratner jeffreyepstein culture amazon iran war petehegseth donaldtrump foxnews us suntzu truthsocial socialmedia maga elonmusk elipariser zoëhitzig josephschumpeter ai artificialintelligence decay capitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ce03e04b5c94/ The Truth About Wokeness with Musa al-Gharbi | Ep 22 - YouTube 2026-04-14T05:27:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSa61inr8g robertogreco musaal-gharbi heterodoxacademy 2025 wokeness capitalism morality ethics academia elitism credentialing credentials credentialism meritocracy gatekeeping exploitation adjuncts highered highereducation colleges universities socialjustice movements history directaction performativity success inequality symboliccapitalists signaling columbia elites culture johntomasi antiwoke wokeism politics politicalcorrectness pierrebourdieu pmc professionalmanagerialclass education class academiccapital labor work petitbourgeois marketing media press symboliccapitalism moralvanguard richardreeves segregation race racism dreamhoarders classx creativeclass socialorder consulting law finance arts entertainment symboliccapital marxism institutions charitableindustrialcomplex philanthropicindustrialcomplex ows occupywallstreet corporations jay-z oprah socialmobility us economics sociology anandgiridharadas nonprofit nonprofits amazon journalism pr administration leadership managment lawyers consultants rupertmurdoch elonmusk worke https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a6508a9c985a/ How elites co-opted wokeness - YouTube 2026-04-13T17:24:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2A3YtsoT8 robertogreco musaal-gharbi seanilling wokeness 2010 2024 politics language socialmovements polarization inequality georgefloyd capitalism progressive progressivism highered highereducation academia journalism change policy elitecapture elites georgefloyduprising politicaleconomy symbolism knowlegework ideology politicalcorrectness 1980s 1990s 2010s 2020s activism left right sanctimony 1930s 1920s 1960s eliteoverproduction jackgoldstone peterturchin popularimmiseration elitism culture gatekeeping sociology bertrandcooper professionalmanagerialclass media education pmc nytimes exclusion exclusivity symboliccapitalism class hierarchy hierarchies meritocracy socialclimbing status egalitarianism ambition classism socialposition superiority antiwoke recognition culturewars culturewar society ethnicity representation pierrebourdieu institutions credentials credentialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8fefad3e40db/ Being in the World (full, award winning, Heidegger/Hubert Dreyfus documentary) - YouTube 2026-03-26T03:11:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCRmf_tHW8 robertogreco hubertdreyfus heidegger documentary philosophy taoruspoli being time thinking waysofbeing risk human humans humanism technology jazz flamenco music 2010 film experience interaction art education skills risktaking mastery leahchase markwrathall austinperalta hiroshisakaguchi bobteague jumanesmith ryancross tonyaustin manuelmolina isaacsprintis christophergallo paulforte giancarlocanavieso christophredlich musicalinstruments johnhaugeland taylorcarman iainthomson seandkelly seankelly senses beginnersmind unschooling perception ai artificialintelligence darpa mit descartes plato charlestaylor certainty engagement tradition disengagement embodiment reason rationalism spinoza leibniz doing annesakaguchi tools stuartdreyfus movement knowhow activity objects waysofknowing knowing edgarchase dookychase food theoryofmind abstraction theory intelligence humanities howwethink relevance metaphor care caring mattering whatmatters consciousness aesthetics moods emotions waysofseeing waysofsensing bodies rules patterns joy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:15ad9e269803/ What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Ever 2026-03-13T05:14:57+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-people-want-from-our-schools robertogreco education schools schooling society 2026 history germany france netherlands finland us china equality inequality economics plato europe oecd children chidlhood horacemann johndewey curriculum pedagogy howweteach teaching learning howwelearn hierarchy civilrightsmovement anationatrisk nclb selectiviy charterschools charters sat testing standardizedtesting southkorea israel academics conscription aptitude compulsory labor work unionization unions brucespringsteen nafta gatt vrettonwoods mexico vietnam ronaldreagan barackobama lobbyists lobbying policy politics corporations corporatism democrats republicans thinktanks socialmobility freddiedeboer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7136e98b930/ The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants | Transnational Institute 2026-03-05T22:40:29+00:00 https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-rise-of-the-techno-tyrants robertogreco robertgonzález 2026 siliconvalley donaldtrump opportunism technofascism jingoism militarism hierarchy hierarchies racism sundarpichai jeffbezos markzuckerberg elonmusk 2025 google meta amazon twitter trumpism 2021 openai samaltman rightwing farright xai priscillachan chan-zuckerberginitiative bezosearthfund philanthropicindustrialcomplex philanthropy charitableindustrialcomplex charity money appeasement fear bigtech technooptimism technosolutionism malcolmharris paloalto stanford 1800s lewisterman davidstarrjordan frederickterman 1940s hp generalelectric ge lockheedmartin williamshockley eugenics dystopia sanfrancisco bayarea stewartbrand fredturner douglasengelbartcalifornianideology janenglish-lueck counterculture capitalism libertarianism reactionaries 1990s 1972 michaelmalone georgegilder santaclaracounty ronaldreagan andreessenhowowitz marcandreessen a16z netflix paypal vc venturecapital algore billclinton barackobama hillaryclinton demoracts republicans rossdouthat universities colleges academia high https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b41f8a4375c/ Designed to be specialists | A Working Library 2026-02-19T22:08:21+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/designed-to-be-specialists robertogreco[There is an] extreme human and cultural misery to which not only the industry of advanced capitalism but above all its institutions, its education and its culture, have reduced the technical worker. This education, in its efforts to adapt the worker to his task in the shortest possible time, has given him the capacity for a minimum of independent activity. Out of fear of creating men [sic] who by virtue of the too “rich” development of their abilities would refuse to submit to the discipline of a too narrow task and to the industrial hierarchy, the effort has been made to stunt them from the beginning: they were designed to be competent but limited, active but docile, intelligent but ignorant outside of anything but their function, incapable of having a horizon beyond that of their task. In short, they were designed to be specialists. [Gorz, A Strategy for Labor, page 106] Impossible not to think here of the rise of labor unions in the tech industry and the subsequent rapid (and surely coincidental) deployment of so-called AI which—unlike nearly every prior technological development in software—arrived with mandates for its use and threats of punishment for the noncompliant. Elsewhere, Gorz talks of the trend of workers being reduced to “supervisors” of automated systems that are doing the work for them. But simply watching work happen, without any of the creative, autonomous activity that would occur if they were doing the work themselves, gives rise to a degree of boredom and stupefaction that can be physically painful and spiritually debilitating. Anyone who has experienced the pleasure of creative work is likely to greatly resist that reduction; better to create workers who have never known such things. There’s some use in distinguishing here between the worker who, having learned the skills of writing software over many years, now turns to so-called AI to assist her in that task; and the worker who will follow her some years hence and may never learn those skills, but will know only the work of supervision. The former, elder worker may find some interest or curiosity in applying her knowledge to this new technology, especially as the modes and methods for doing so are still being developed. But what of the worker who begins their work a decade from now, who has been specialized to do nothing more than ask for something? What will she know beyond that menial, dispiriting little task? What kind of people are we designing now?"]]> mandybrown 2026 andrégorz labor work unions technology ai artificialintelligence capitalism automation software boredom compliance management specialization immiserations education culture society hierarchy laborunions supervision power control https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dec03e083ff1/ Hyperreal Fascism | Plastic Pills - YouTube 2026-02-19T20:51:51+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9fpm-lorIU robertogreco fascism latefascistaesthetics fascistaesthetics 2026 plasticpills aesthetics walterbenjamin jeanbaudrillard wilhelmreich algirdasjuliengreimas semiotics trumpism donaldtrump us media socialmedia hyperrealism power threat violence kristinoem guns dhs ice police policing militarism baudrillard reality stephenmiller jdvance meaning messaging policy dickcheney tv television performance transparency theater pallywood marketing corruption canon carlschmitt advertising propaganda italy nazis nazigermany germany italia mussolini benitomussoilini luxurybrands hugboss politics rolex capitalism fendi chanel bimbocore louisvuitton christiandior balenciaga emergency strategygroup fascists aesthetization flags symbolism symbols ivylee hyperreality dior hypernormalization ussr conspiracy conspiracies publicreleations inequality elites fashion democracy ford ibm truenation purification rebirth nationalism scapegoating business 1920s 2020s standardoil profits profit corporations corporatism immigration elonmusk peterthiel ser https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24c3081d3bfc/ Communities are not fungible 2026-02-12T06:28:32+00:00 https://www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-are-not-fungible/ robertogreco jawestenberg 2026 community communities fediverse robertmoses siliconvalley online internet web socialmedia relationships neighborhoods janejacobs economics economists behavior discord platforms dreamwidth livejournal migration twitter optimization algorithms snapchat tiktok bluesky mastodon threads robindunbar socialgraph stevenage urbanism urbanplanning ursulaleguin ursulakleguin thedispossessed hierarchy hierarchies social society displacement distruption skepticism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:31d0599c087b/ How To Resist An Alien Invasion - YouTube 2026-02-12T06:21:10+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EKs25Oxe4 robertogreco 2026 andrewism insurgency counterinsurgency anarchism anarchy maotsetung cheguevara capitalism carlosmaringhella abdulharisnasution organizing decentralization hierarchy felxibility resistance insurgence surprise camouflage insurgencies networks china indonesia cuba brazil brasil guerillas guerillawarfare armedresistance strategy bolivia dictatorship revolution congo andrewsage feudalism maozedong https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9fa5c1c38496/ The Billionaire Plan to Escape Democracy: Quinn Slobodian on 'Crack-Up Capitalism' - YouTube 2026-02-08T21:15:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ombPdaRd0 robertogreco quinnslobodian gilduran 2026 nerdreich tescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism billionaires capitalism democracy authoritarianism globalism próspera guantanamo ideology libertarianism jeffbezos elonmusk joelonsdale globalization siliconvalley octaviabutler seasteading economics economy freetrade sovereignty corporatism neoliberalism corporations feudalism ai artificialintelligence labor work workers posthumanism freedomcities maga trumpism donaldtrump peterthiel sezs guantánamo accelerationism law legal governance government privatization oligarchy broligarchs datacenters infrastructure darkfactories rightwing farright palmerluckey networkstate dystopia africa greenland hongkong freezones deregulation regulation dengxiaoping nationstates cheguevara frantzfanon kwamenkrumah singapore london miltonfriedman margaretthatcher decolonization accountability 1960s 1970s 1980 nations geopolitics postcolonialism canarywharf atlanta wealt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a81fb562505/ The yearnings that take young Europeans into the far Right | Aeon Essays 2026-01-23T05:36:46+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/the-yearnings-that-take-young-europeans-into-the-far-right robertogreco belief bleonging europe farright politics 2026 agnieskapasieka sociology gender identity anthropology subcultures climatecrisis climate climatechange community nationalism ideology religion christianity catholicism conservatism italy italia poland hungary 1968 1976 raymondwilliams ferdinandtönnies émiledurkheim society youth hierarchy alienation individualism kristenghodsee akhilgupta jamesferguson 1997 culture egalitarianism patriotism backlash liberalism liberals socialisolation isolation health publichealth robertnisbet fellowship belonging membership militancy volunteerism idology heritage tradition roots christianorthodoxy discrimination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:02e678690f3f/ Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day - CounterPunch.org 2026-01-10T22:20:05+00:00 https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/01/oligarchy-xiv-thoughts-on-the-anarchism-of-dorothy-day/ robertogrecoThe seedbed of her pacifism extended back into her Protestant young adulthood. Her familiarity with the Bible remained a significant part of her spirituality and informed her pacifism. Back then, the Catholic laity was discouraged from Bible reading. It would take a convert like Dorothy to advance biblical nonviolence as an essential Catholic teaching. She placed enormous emphasis on the commandment to love God and love neighbor. She understood it as the core teaching of Jesus and pondered over it from adolescence until her death. Many of the American Christian anarchists/non-resistants follow in a long tradition of antinomians, arguably going back to the Antinomian Controversy in New England and before. These episodes left an established tradition of challenging authority and hierarchical power. Day’s Christian anarchism stands out in its delicate location within the Catholic tradition. Indeed, hers was a stance that angered many in both the Church hierarchy and in her old left-wing circles. She recalled at the end of her life that many of her radical friends had felt betrayed by her conversion:
One who had yearned to walk in the footsteps of a Mother Jones and an Emma Goldman seemingly had turned her back on the entire radical movement and sought shelter in that great, corrupt Holy Roman Catholic Church, right hand of the Oppressor, the State, rich and heartless, a traitor to her beginnings, her Founder, etc.
Just as she was a poor fit with the narrow-minded college socialists (more on that below), she was also an awkward fit in a movement defined by people like Proudhon, whom she frequently discussed, and Bakunin. Day’s personalism is another distinctive feature of her approach to anarchism. This is the idea, grounded in a basic belief in the dignity of every human being, that each person must take personal responsibility on every level: that there is a duty to one’s neighbors and coworkers, and we cannot look to others, including large institutions, which are themselves the key offenders and impediments to change. Day often talked about how she was changed after the experience of seeing neighbors come to each other’s aid in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In an article in 1936, Day explained:
We are Personalists because we believe that man, a person, a creature of body and soul, is greater than the State, of which as an individual he is a part. We are Personalists because we oppose the vesting of all authority in the hands of the state instead of in the hands of Christ the King. We are Personalists because we believe in free will, and not in the economic determinism of the Communist philosophy.
Remarking on the 1927 murder of Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Day noted that anarchism “is the word, or label, which confuses many of our readers (especially the bishops?)” Day saw anarchism, as a philosophy of mutual respect and voluntary cooperation, as a natural extension of Christian spiritual practice and fellowship. She argued that there is no human law applicable to those who love and follow Jesus, and that “anarchism means ‘Love God, and do as you will.’” From the moment it became aware of the Catholic Worker movement, the U.S. government has treated it with suspicion, targeting and spying on Day and the movement as supposedly subversive elements. Day’s activism drew the attention of the FBI, and she is said to have enjoyed reading her FBI files. Day had joined the Socialist Party in Urbana, Illinois, as a teenage college student, but its “petty bourgeois” attitudes and lack of “the religious enthusiasm for the poor” left her cold. She was not one for posturing; her Christian anarchism was based on the idea that every person is “known and named,” and that the real movement for human freedom takes place where there is a human need to be satisfied. Day roundly rejected the value system and approach of rigid bureaucracies and hierarchies, either corporate or governmental, which treat people as case numbers within cold, detached systems of power. As Michael Kazin put it: “Like any good anarchist, Christian or not, Day had no faith whatsoever in the desire or ability of governing authorities to create a moral, egalitarian society.” Her political outlook was grounded in and expressed through the sharing of everyday acts of kindness, through up-close relationships rather than philosophical abstractions. Yet she was extremely well-read and capable of the most insightful and skillfully articulated engagements with advanced ideas. Day has a very particular way with words. There is a rare candor, which reflects her lack of pretenses and her vulnerability in sharing her full life in the most open and sincere way. Her columns go back and forth between the tragedy and the comedy of being human with real thought and skill. Some of the vignettes in her autobiography are as powerful and moving as anything written by any American, for my money. “In 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops unanimously voiced its support for her sainthood,” and this cause is, as I understand it, pending. An anarchist Catholic saint would be something to see. [photo: "Rose Hill Catholic Worker farm, Tivoli, New York. Photo: National Park Service."] Day believed that we have the social and political question backwards, starting with abstractions, ideological camps, and grand plans, when what we should focus on what is personal and tangible, what can be done directly, immediately, and without “professional” intermediaries. I was drawn to Day’s writings first because her way of thinking about political and social questions is so categorically different from the one we get from both halves of the poisonous main currents of our discourse today. She rejected both versions of bloodthirsty twentieth century authoritarianism, capitalism and socialism, instead articulating a radical politics of the corporeal and close by. Nothing more complicated in policy terms than housing and feeding our neighbors, the most important work (we prefer conceptual complexity and institutional paralysis while oligarchs bleed the country). Her belief in the transformative power of community and hospitality at the most basic but most intimate scale led her to reject the way almost everyone of our age thinks about politics. Day’s politics were about love for and service to other people; her way of looking at the world, according to her granddaughter, focused on the idea that “what we can do is so little, but that is what we are given to do. That’s only what we can do, so let’s move forward and do what we each think that we can do.” She emphasized “the necessity of smallness,” encouraging a direct and hands-on approach to serving those in need. She could not accept any approach to activism or ministry that separated the theorizing from the doing. Contrast our culture of aloof contempt for the poor, workers, prisoners, migrants and refugees, etc. There is nothing lower than not having money in our anti-human culture and political system. It is thoroughly bipartisan and it will outlast every politician and political party. Rest assured that the state’s indifference toward the suffering of the poor will be there still when there is no more U.S. government. In Day’s view, we are depriving ourselves of another political dimension in the notion that love is the only response to political moments like this one. Regardless of anyone’s opinions, if love and community are not reliable for us in the social and community context, then what are we talking about? If they aren’t starting with the people at the bottom, what are they building? Everyone seems to feel that the country is lost today. My suggestion is: do not try to find it. Dorothy Day’s example suggests that we find each other, face-to-face, and begin to relearn the lessons of solidarity and mutual aid. We do that and we don’t have to fuss with any of today’s counterfeit B.S. In the social reality that capital and the state are hawking, there is nothing for workers or the poor, nothing but getting shorted. Day saw the crises unfolding around her in terms of human suffering. She did not put herself in the position of judging or condemning; she did not hold out false solutions or panaceas. She asked people to follow her lead in taking personal responsibility and initiative. Among the goals of the House of Hospitality, she stated, was to “emphasize personal action, personal responsibility as opposed to political action and state responsibility.” As a social model, the House of Hospitality explicitly resists impersonal, bureaucratized forms of charity and deliberately puts givers and recipients on the same footing, creating genuine relationships and community life. Day lived a life of voluntary poverty and thought that one should try to “be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material.” Central to her thought was leading by example and in accordance with love for all people. Her life, her work, her politics, all inseparable, were based on the radical notion that Jesus meant what he said about loving each other, turning the other cheek, etc. Day offers another way of thinking about what it means to be politically active within a broader network of movements for freedom, equality, and justice. We don’t need to play to the strengths of the ruling class by focusing our energies and resources back into the sources of hierarchy and domination. Day thought that we had things backwards when it came to political and social change: that is, she believed we are already where the action is, in that everything grows from the bottom up. The movement is where you are, and it exists within your power to take care of people in need. So this is obviously a way of thinking poles apart from the performative nonsense that is encouraged today. Her worldview was a wholesale rejection of today’s faux meritocracy and its ugly pretense that some people are worth more than others. She believed that there is a “a spirit of non-violence and brotherhood” in the Gospels that counsels anarchism in practice. She favored radical decentralization and recognized the principle of subsidiarity, or the idea that decision-making should take place at the most local possible level. In the United States, we have departed from this principle to our own peril, yet neither of our teams seem to understand the problem. Day did not mince words in providing a classically anarchist condemnation of government:
Eventually, there will be this withering away of the State. Why put it off in some far distant utopia? Why not begin right now and say that the state is the enemy. The state is the armed forces. The state is bound to be a tyrant, a dictatorship. A Dictatorship of the Proletariat becomes yet another dictatorship. (emphasis in original)
Day did not believe that we can effectively resist this system of poverty and social alienation by supporting politicians or by mimicking the coercive, bureaucratic style of elites. For her, it could not be a matter of voting, giving alms, or being a good member of some party. Day’s approach represents the opposite of the institutional distance and stuck-up elitism that characterize most of our systems. Day insisted on being there on the ground, sharing daily life in real human connections, resisting the state and consumerism through friendship and love rather than through government. This mode of politics can only be understood and practiced by one who is not interested in being there for others, not in her own opinions or in electing certain politicians, etc. This is the real revolution everyone has been talking about and waiting for, but Day’s isn’t a path most people are capable of walking. One of the mottos of the Catholic Worker movement is, “Conscience is supreme.” Day could not reconcile any politics of division or violence with her own conscience. Institutions that rely on violence – the state, for instance – could not help except by receding into the background; they are not there to help, but rather to create the conditions for widespread deprivation and poverty. There may be no starker contrast to the hollow identitarian blather of our moment than the life and work of Dorothy Day. Today’s hideous and embarrassing elite-worship, its obsessions with maximums of speed and scale regardless of the social dangers or consequences, its institutional detachment and opacity, and its counterproductive GDPism all represent pervasive social decay and alienation within Day’s philosophy. They are not the visible signs of “progress.” By comparison, today’s PMC liberals appear to be deliberately authoritarian and parochial defenders of plutocracy. And our conservatives, particularly the churchgoing ones, seem to genuinely hate the people Day said we’re commanded to love. I think Professor Larry Chapp put it well, discussing the importance of Day’s politics of resistance to our current moment (now retired, Professor Chapp runs the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Pennsylvania):
This is all modern Liberalism has to offer: blunt force and wealth. And what moral and spiritual weapons do we have that are not undermined by our own supreme hypocrisy? We all, rightly, recoil in horror at the sufferings inflicted by Putin’s insane military gambit to restore empire. But empire building is what Liberals do, and have done now for centuries, and so the moral condemnations of our political class rings hollow.
Day didn’t think it was all that difficult to see why our political culture and discourse continue to fail us, particularly those at the margins of our society. Political ideology totally abstracted from the real relations of ministering to the needs of the poor, from the real struggles of workers striving around the clock yet no further from the edges of social and economic oblivion. That is American liberalism today. The American right meanwhile offers an incoherent, unwholesome slop of racial and ethnic scapegoating, open thuggery and corruption, and in MAGA the treatment of the country as a cheap and trashy brand name for enriching the political mercenaries and shady billionaires around Donald Trump. But, fundamentally, the teams share a value system, and the poor are despised by that system. If they’re not blaming them for crime and social discord, politicians are trying desperately to ignore the poor and pretend they don’t exist. This is one of the bedrock values of our system, at least as it exists materially rather than in the purely imaginary fantasies of a PMC that proudly embeds itself in the military-industrial complex even as it scolds everyone. Statists and imperialists of all kinds, including liberals, who try to appropriate Day should understand that she was not joking about anarchism and would not willingly cooperate with the government; her identity as an anarchist was inseparable from the rest of her life and work, which meant ignoring the law and living according to the law of conscience. Like many anarchists before and since, Day had run-ins with the law throughout her life. She was jailed several times, beginning in 1917, when she was arrested while picketing as part of the Silent Sentinels campaign. She was a fixture of the anti-war and anti-nuclear movements and was jailed several times in the 1950s for her refusal to take shelter during civil defense drills during that period (this protest seems to have been the brainchild of Ammon Hennacy, whom I discussed for the Cato Institute’s Libertarianism.org several years back). Responding to the nuclear mass murders in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Day wrote with rare moral clarity against the death cult that still has our ruling class in its grip:
Jubilate Deo. We have killed 318,000 Japanese. That is, we hope we have killed them, the Associated Press, on page one, column one of the Herald Tribune, says. The effect is hoped for, not known. It is to be hoped they are vaporized, our Japanese brothers – scattered, men, women and babies, to the four winds, over the seven seas. Perhaps we will breathe their dust into our nostrils, feel them in the fog of New York on our faces, feel them in the rain on the hills of Easton. Jubilate Deo. President Truman was jubilant.
Day felt the truth in her bones. She understood that those dead families in Japan were our family – they were not evil foreigners. She protested through two world wars and saw firsthand every trick used by the state to stir up hatred and enthusiasm for war. Consider the attitudes of our putatively liberal elite on questions of war and empire today, and contrast them to those of Dorothy Day. Our corporate uniparty has two openly war-mongering and imperialistic wings, with differences only in emphases and vibes, and even there the degree of difference is smaller than is generally thought (respectable opinion in the District wants war, but with Russia and China, not Venezuela). Today, people who have made their entire careers pitching and overseeing disastrous wars of choice get in line for fancy fellowships and interviews on the supposedly progressive shows. Because the U.S. government manages a powerful empire, our political class is compelled by the agglomeration of interests around them to chaperone a politics of imperialism, with disagreement confined to the margins. Higher defense spending is popular with politicians of both parties, because war is the business the state is in. Violence is its key offering in economic terms, much as any lesser mafia. Virtually all members of Congress make their peace with it in one way or another, because this is what the overall system requires of them, and the system is very good at getting what it needs; whatever their reasons, both parties want and actively search for and recruit candidates that they know will be reliably pro-war, often those with connections to the Pentagon or the intelligence community, the major “defense” contractors of the federal government, or financial interests aligned with warfare and empire. Recall that the deepest and strongest connections between the two ways our ruling class shows itself, the state and capital, take place within the world of war. In our system, both always want war because they see it as a source of growth, but they were fused together even before the growth logic took over completely. That is the perversity of our system, which Day saw. She didn’t think one could escape complicity merely because they were positioned within bourgeois polite society; she called the scientists who worked on the bomb murderers, and she demanded accountability from the places of higher learning that allied themselves with “this colossal slaughter of the innocents.” To understand the perversity and degeneration of our politics and discourse, we just have to look at how quickly our simulacra of political participation set up a new enemy of the week, reincorporating the old enemies (e.g., the rehabilitation of George W. Bush) and using the energy and appearance of conflict to reaffirm the imperial system itself. Day understood that the state was a den of thieves and criminals regardless of who is in charge, and the source of positive social change has to be us, working together. Dorothy Day was an amazing person and a true rarity. She relentlessly downplayed her own importance and contributions to the Catholic Worker movement. During an interview in 1971, a week before her 74th birthday, Day discussed the movement’s humble beginnings and reiterated the centrality of small, personal scale and the face-to-face community to the mission:
You start in with a table full of people and pretty soon you have a line and pretty soon you’re living with some of them in a house. You do what you can. God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centers. The ideal is community.
Not long after, reminiscing at the age of 75, she referred to herself as “the housekeeper of the Catholic Worker movement.” It wasn’t the fake humility of today’s political tabloid show. To her, that work is as worthwhile and honorable as any honest service to other people. She passed away in 1980 at the Catholic Worker’s Maryhouse on the Lower East Side. She was 83. If radicals today are looking for a normative model or a plan of action, the life of Dorothy Day, the first hippie, in Abbie Hoffman’s words, will at least provide inspiration. Growing interest in Dorothy Day must not obscure the central facts of her anarchist politics, that the work to which she dedicated her life can’t ever be carried out by the authoritarian, bureaucratic state or by the professional-managerial class administering it. Her commitments were not those of our political class, and she was explicit about that. They point to forms of personal responsibility and solidarity that are structurally incompatible with the state and capitalism. To take her political ethic seriously is to move in a direction directly opposed to the logic and practices of both mainstream and elite politics today. *** David S. D’Amato is an attorney, businessman, and independent researcher. He is a Policy Advisor to the Future of Freedom Foundation and a regular opinion contributor to The Hill. His writing has appeared in Forbes, Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, RealClearPolitics, The Washington Examiner, and many other publications, both popular and scholarly. His work has been cited by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, among others."]]> 2026 dorothyday davidd'amato catholicworker anarchism williamlloydgarrison adinballou henryclarkewright joshuaingalls williamgreene libertarianism anneklement catholicism catholicchurch christianity activism labor work workers saccoandvanzetti nicolasacco bartolomeovanzetti peronsalists hierarchy horizontality abbiehoffman politics us discourse harrytruman ammonhennacy statism maga donaldtrump trumpism liberalism larrychapp liberals dictatorship policy socialism personalism emmagoldman motherjones antimonians https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb7b129d3acf/ Entrevista con Gabriel García Márquez « Enlace Zapatista 2026-01-04T20:04:34+00:00 https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2001/03/25/entrevista-con-gabriel-garcia-marquez/ robertogreco subcomandantemarcos gabrielgarcíamárquez robertopombo 2001 gabo horizontality revolution dialog zapatimos zapatistas vicentefox vanguards hierarchy 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inefficiency equality domination libertarianism economics homogeneity surveillance data neocamerlaism corporations corporatism mussolini futuristmanifesto italianfuturism nickland italianfuturists futurists menciusmoldbug nerdreich extropianism longtermism capitalism technofascism benitomussolini filippotommasomarinetti https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:51ceb553aa06/ The Faith of Nick Land | Compact 2025-11-01T03:56:17+00:00 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-faith-of-nick-land/ robertogrecogeoffshullenberger nickland 2025 accelerationism philosophy technology 1994 future williamgibson estherdyson howardrheingold davidbyrne billgates siliconvalley tildaswinton horizontality hierarchy hierarchies history conradflynn tuckercarlson innovation ai artificialintelligence numogram 1990s lemurs 1993 hyperstition williamsburroughs 1987 madameblavatsky capitalism kant hplovecraft heresy gillesdeleuz félixguattari sadieplant right left reactionaries neoreactionaries 1968 may1968 2010s menciusmoldbug curtisyarvin tescreal singularity transhumanism jennyturner 1995 1996 y2k 2000 disillusioment web2.0 barackobama governance government roddreher alberthirschman benedictoption markets machines neoractionaries donaldtrump maga trumpism techright politics aleksandrdugin satan goethe stevenpinker whigs satanism bernardmandeville adamsmith economics policy protestantism christianity neuromancer bladerunner terminator religion llms self-organization meltdown marshallberman freemarketfundamentalism laissez-faireec https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f96b64fb8040/ Portland Streets - YouTube 2025-10-23T03:15:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8nuES2mwjY robertogrecochannel5 andrewcallaghan 2020 2025 anarchism anarchy decentralization wtoprotests wto seattle donaldtrump nazis fasicts ice police policing nationalguard andyngo influencers socialmedia tippingpointusa liberals liberalism portland gentirfication oralhistory gentrification crime georgefloyd blacklivesmatter protest protests nimby nimbyism nimbys horizontality hierarchy hierarchies stephenmiller grantspass homelessness homeless antifa incarceration harmreducation sanfrancisco drugs decriminalization thepostmillennial charlottesville proudboys jan6 1999 history race racism whitesupremacy altright violence blackbloc nicksortor juliorosas savanahhernandez camhigby nickshirly jonathanchoe jamesklug brandikruse jackprosbiec propaganda austin gunds secondamendment local politics elections electoralpolitics barackobama patriotprayer radicalization rico stopcopcity georgefloydprotests georgefloyduprising pacificnorthwest https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b8458d91f0c0/ To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System - Public Books 2025-10-14T02:59:55+00:00 https://www.publicbooks.org/to-save-public-higher-ed-stop-revering-californias-tiered-system/ robertogreco universityofcalifornia calstate csu 2025 stephaniereist hierarchy highered highereducation colleges universities communitycolleges sfsu ucberkeley masterplan inequality admissions race policy california segregation competition funding tuition ronaldreagan thirdworldliberationfront politics coldwar clarkkerr roysimpson activism ucsb racism egalitarianism democracy 1960 budget publicschools publicuniversities liberalism minorities institutions education csueastbay enrollement calstateeastbay californiamasterplan affirmativeaction donaldtrump uc californiastateuniversity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7bfe8ac89c39/ It's Anarchist Season with Alexis Shotwell - YouTube 2025-10-03T04:20:16+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3evGc0mF5Y robertogreco alexisshorwell sadfrancisco 2025 toshiomeronek anarchism anarchy ursulaleguin ursulakleguin politics donaldtrump canada us nationalism border borders protectionism movements punchup socialinfratructure infrastructure deskilling neoliberalism collectivism hierarchy hierarchies conflictresolution martyrdom burnout horizontality organizing power nonprofit nonprofits charitableindustrialcomplex philanthropicindustrialcomplex philanthropy ice palestine charity mutualaid change changemaking harmoprevention scifi sciencefiction fiction radio pirateradio thedispossessed literature mediaproduction socialmedia offline nonprofitindustrialcomplex choice harm transformativejustie behavior utopia human humans society capitalism humannature privation poverty oppression wealth care caring earnestness cringe cynicism sarcasm accelerationism wobblies iww indigeneity indigenous spanishcivilwar spain españa iralia italy ownership collectives work labor abolitionism prisonabolition solidarity property state anticapitalism colo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4ad6b559ecf6/ Ursula Le Guin's Anarchist Alternative - YouTube 2025-10-02T16:10:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73s-YMcNTI robertogreco anarchism ursulaleguin 2025 alexisshotwell emmagoldman peterkropotkin anarresproject josephorosco futures philosophy thedispossesed utopia politics politicalphilosophy purity feminism gender race ethics angusmaguire jamesrowe sciencefiction scifi octaviabutler marionzimmerbradley robertheinlein activism buddhism omelas samueldelaney horizontality hierarchy hierarchies power williammorris erricomalatesta humannature mutualaid collectivity collectivism alexanderberjman taoism daoism imagination society exploitation misery horror odo nkjemisin relationships oppression critique speculativefiction anarres politcalphilosophy humans human property organizing anarcho-communism cooperation solidarity libertarianism nonownership capitalism anticapitalism sociability ammari comradeship kinship togetherness antoniogramsci vulnerability patriarchy humility charity difference deviance sameness individualism individuality kathrynnorlock stoicism murraybookchin unfinshed ongoingness staffordbeer lifestyle infrastructure inst https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe77f9b848a5/ God is not Odin, God is not Zeus, God is not Marduk | Eclectic Orthodoxy 2025-10-01T04:31:56+00:00 https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/god-is-not-odin-god-is-not-zeus-god-is-not-marduk-3/ robertogreco anarchism communalism davidbentleyhart 2020 jesus conservatism christ jesuschrist modernity hierarchy society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7fcd9b31f792/ from counterculture to cyberculture (ft. fred turner) 2025-09-26T01:36:21+00:00 https://jasmi.news/p/from-counterculture-to-cyberculture robertogreco fredturner jasminesun 2025 stewartbrand siliconvalley datingapps history markzuckerberg chappellroan mussolini hippies californianideology miliary vietnamwar humanities teaching howweteach benitomussolini toddgitlin newleft berkeley marissavio newcommunalists haight-ashbury thehaight politics psychedelics lsd janisjoplin left escape communalism sharedconsciousness computers computing technology military vietnam 1960s 1970s wiredmagazine buckminsterfuller decentralization hierarchy hierarchies geodesicdome bureaucracy individualism counterculture burningman design liberation kenkesey apple wholeearthcatalog tescreal immateriality class war singularity singularitarianism transhumanism dematerialization online internet web abstraction disembodiment combat bodies veterans iraq iraqwar militaryindustrialcomplex stanford italianfuturists italianfuturism futurism information godcomplex stevejobs cybernetics immaterial philosophy networks networkedthinking cyberculture google catalogs race segregation racism privilig https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:56ace5aeab77/ Hurry-up-quick! | A Working Library 2025-09-25T23:29:13+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/hurry-up-quick robertogreco mandybrown haste slow stephenjaygould production productivity iq tests testing ursulaleguin race racism hierarchy supremacy rest human humanism intelligence wisdom redundancy urgency speed efficiency optimization ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:272d47deee73/ The Rise and Fall of Urbit | Compact 2025-09-24T17:35:48+00:00 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-urbit/ robertogreco urbit tlon technofeudalism libertarianism politics curtisyarvin darkenlightenment 2025 adinaglickstein web3 crypto cryptocurrencies blockchain computing computers internet web online platforms decentralization networks rominamalta centralization hierarchy hierarchies vitalikbuterin johnperrybarlow cyberspace networkeffects galenwolfe-pauly ethereum peterthiel feudalism christopheralexander honorlevy speculation monetization ponzischemes 2020 2013 1996 2010s tescreal 2016 2021 2019 2022 reactionaries joshlehmann self-publishing nickland hypersition technology corydoctorow bigtech enshittification megacorp privacy security 2023 christophercolby conservatism delusion urbitfoundation transparency governance francistseng philosophy monarchism corporatism data sovereignty social nerdreich singularity singularitarianism extropianism rationalism cosmism longtermism transhumanism extroprianism effectivealtruism menciusmoldbug capitalism fascism technofascism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65c8c618e20f/ The Myth of "Risk-Free" in the Global Gold Industry – SAPIENS 2025-09-16T19:23:20+00:00 https://www.sapiens.org/culture/gold-mining-ethical-sourcing-inequalities-colombia-miners/ robertogreco gold mining minerals materials history colonialism colonization 2025 latinamerica congo gisellefigueroadelaossa race racism colombia class hierarchy hierarchies regulation marmato anthropology economics switzerland lbma eu us investment markets contamination risk governance indigeneity indigenous precolombian southamerica carllangebaek corruption accumulation capitalism traceability jamessmith ethnography morality moralauthority authority extraction extractivism jewelery cali medellín gdl uae globalnorth globalsouth policy policies inequality justice purification environment goldmarket https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d82a916d778a/ Putting Humans First Is Not Natural - Nautilus 2025-09-03T21:33:58+00:00 https://nautil.us/putting-humans-first-is-not-natural-1235544/ robertogreco christinewebb 2025 anthropocene anthropocentrism multispecies morethanhuman animals nature interconnectedness interconnected human humans humanexceptionalism exceptionalism children primates worldview perception society civilization ecology environment capitalism supremacy arrogance primatology cognition intelligence self-awareness dogs bacteria plants worms fish rats monkeys ranking hierarchy humanbeings pigs west hierarchies cosmology cosmologies evolution covid-19 coronavirus pandemic culture myth myths domination dominance cooperation collaboration competition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e28396a8ae6f/ Ranking the Myths of the System - YouTube 2025-08-06T02:39:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTp7TILYfkE robertogreco andrewism 2025 myths stausquo sex gender scarcity humannature universalism endtimes separation authority hierarchy work labor capitalism neoliberalism schools schooling education trickledowneconomics economics society civilization freedom ethnosupremacy ethnonationalism law legal international neutrality peace resistance oppression zionism antizionism moderates centrism centrists politics policy colonialism colonization settlercolonialism hierarchies wealth inequality billionaires government governance democracy repression exploitation gaza palestine unschooling deschooling genocide ethniccleansing warcrimes ecososystems latecapitalism elitis statusquo meritocracy merit patriarchy sexism systems systemsthinking ecosystems change revolution deprogramming anarchism anarchy rights civilrights power state stateviolence violence resources inequity police policing property choice liberation collectivism productivity bullshitjobs expertise influence coercion courts rulers subordination supremacy conflict competition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9569e706c5d3/ How Gaza Exposes The Myths of The System - YouTube 2025-08-06T02:39:22+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-uYmxsyQwA robertogreco andrewism 2025 myths stausquo sex gender scarcity humannature universalism endtimes separation authority hierarchy work labor capitalism neoliberalism schools schooling education trickledowneconomics economics society civilization freedom ethnosupremacy ethnonationalism law legal international neutrality peace resistance oppression zionism antizionism moderates centrism centrists politics policy colonialism colonization settlercolonialism hierarchies wealth inequality billionaires government governance democracy repression exploitation gaza palestine unschooling deschooling genocide ethniccleansing warcrimes ecososystems latecapitalism elitis statusquo meritocracy merit patriarchy sexism systems systemsthinking ecosystems change revolution deprogramming anarchism anarchy rights civilrights power state stateviolence violence resources inequity police policing property choice liberation collectivism productivity bullshitjobs expertise influence coercion courts rulers subordination supremacy conflict competition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2b8cde3832a9/ Podcast Insights E1 - Academic Perspectives on Watches - BEYOND THE DIAL 2025-07-24T23:08:57+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e1-perspectives-on-watches/ robertogreco allenfarmelo 2019 phenomenology watches history design society mechanics ryanschmidt jenskoch jackforster zachweiss anarchism authority christopherward bellandross bell&ross anthropology charliekyle omega culturaltheory oppression queerstudies womensstudies indigenous indigeneity aboriginal left anarchy abdication feminism leftism hierarchy horizontality 1990s frenchschool ethnomusicology deconstruction deconstructionism sociology subcultures tools singaling perspective horology anarchronisms zoominginandout bigpicture minutia bremont music iwc longform academic objects observation keepsakes totems amulets talismans physics metaphysics science materials quantumphysics seiko springdrive meaning meaningmaking joy time culture deconstructivism watchcanon aestheticrevolution aborigines quantummechanics quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2b9636b8e26d/ Why Are Tech Billionaires so Obsessed with the Roman Empire? - Electric Literature 2025-07-24T05:16:49+00:00 https://electricliterature.com/why-are-tech-billionaires-so-obsessed-with-the-roman-empire/ robertogreco markzuckerberg elonmusk monarchism romanempire ancientrome power control authoritarianism domination eldamaríaromán 2025 catoinstitute charleskoch augustus juliuscaesar romebros donaldtrump maga gennarosangiuliano imperialism empire via:javierarbona paulmescal toxicmasculinity socialmedia donnazuckerberg whiteness altright ethnonationalism fascism benitomussolini hierarchy jasonstanley christianity catholicism masculinity carolecadwalladr algorithms brexit siliconvalley technology radicalization rightwing farright socialization tressiemcmillancottom sociology us lgbtq identity inequality politics policy governance government ralphellison barbarians immigration border borders cullenmurphey assimilation culture society civilization vietthanhnguyen invasion change scaremongering scpaegoating tacitus misogyny caesar mussolini https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:634fd7fb603e/ This Silicon Valley Stuff'll Get You Killed 2025-07-21T21:48:42+00:00 https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/this-silicon-valley-stuffll-get-you robertogreco As an objection to my pessimism, one might claim that China is clear-sighted where everyone else is blind. Certainly, its vast vision of a unified Eurasia, the Belt and Road project, is a grand design for the future, unequalled since the sun of the ‘American Century’ rose over a war-shattered world. But China’s genius, 1949-59 and 1979-2013, has been its neo-mandarin practice of collective leadership, centralized but plurivocal. Xi Jinping, in his ascent to Mao’s throne, is the worm in the apple. Although he has economically and militarily enhanced China’s clout, his reckless unleashing of ultra-nationalism could yet open a nuclear Pandora’s Box. We are living through the nightmare edition of ‘Great Men Make History’. Unlike the high Cold War when politburos, parliaments, presidential cabinets and general staffs to some extent countervailed megalomania at the top, there are few safety switches between today’s maximum leaders and Armageddon. Never has so much fused economic, mediatic and military power been put into so few hands. It should make us pay homage at the hero graves of Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov, Alexander Berkman and the incomparable Sholem Schwarzbard."]]> edwardongwesojr 2025 technofeudalism siliconvalley ai uber lift taxis disruption lobbying ubereats law legal congestion pollution airpollution traffic publictransit behavior psychology capitalism democracy lioberalism profits efficiency productivity business google ericschmidt climatechange climate globalwarming artificialintelligence infrastructure accelerationism jathansadowski responsibility meta scaleai surveillance china politics maga donaldtrump us technology protectionism wealth power inequality policy labor work workers violence tower projection socialcontrol society mikedavis xijinping beltandroad beltandroadproject aleksandrilyichulyanov alexanderberkman sholemschwarzbard megalomania eugenics caste castes apartheid terrorism terror hierarchy hierarchies reactionaries military finance metaverse exploitation robots automation software potempkinai regulation deregulation paranoia panopticon oligarchy beltandroadinitiative edwardongweso https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:896102bd366e/ Monthly Review | Intelligence Under Racial Capitalism: From Eugenics to Standardized Testing and Online Learning 2025-07-05T02:08:46+00:00 https://monthlyreview.org/2022/09/01/intelligence-under-racial-capitalism-from-eugenics-to-standardized-testing-and-online-learning/ robertogreco2022 eugenics racialcapitalism capitalism standardizedtesting standardization education inequality meritocracy politicaleconomy media sorting intelligence us history yardenkatz cedricrobninson racialism covid-19 coronavirus pandemic hierarchy hierarchies coursera 2021 howardknox 1914 alfredbinet iq sterilzation incarceration racescience testing assessment institutions quantification francisgalton karlpearson charlesspearman ronaldfisher society socialcontrol psychology henrygoddard schools schooling lewsiterman stanford-binet prisons imprisonment germany nazis carlbringham civilrightsact 1964 charlesmurray bellcurve georgechurch children charterschools billgates elibroad civilrights corporations corporatism ai artificialintelligence onlinelearning learning online andrewng daphnekoller stanford johnshopkins sat difference profiteering profits worldbank algeria brazil brasil puertorico colonialism colonization latinamerica caribbean venezuela uruguay argentina costarica data gaza palestine israel michaelafricaj https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9618f8d0a2ff/ What Foragers Teach Us about Seasons and Social Change 2025-06-24T19:47:20+00:00 https://www.sapiens.org/biology/foragers-seasonality-social-change-flexibility-societies/ robertogreco ceceiliapadilla-iglesias 2025 time seasons anthropology foraging politics society industrialization history humans human foragers hunter-gatherers davidgraeber davidwengrow indigenous indigeneity franzboas claudelévi-strauss nambikwara brazil brasil ejengi bayaka egalitarianism congobasin archaeology tools architecture elmanservice hierarchy hierarchies community communities flexibility uk us west leadership authority authoritarianism conflictresolution power coercion anarchism anarchy ceremonies farming agriculture publicarchitecture rituals ritual turkey gathering rulingclass monuments inequality kenya gabbra amazonia individualism collectivism romansaturnalia mayday social sociallife adaptability work organization complexity resources oligarchy institutions firstnations decisionmaking cooperation spirituality settlements simplicity small socialorganization relationships claudelevi-strauss türkiye https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f447535db1ae/ Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism - JSTOR Daily 2025-06-18T16:08:04+00:00 https://daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/ robertogrecothe earth is no man’s; it is God’s…. The land is common to all. All have the same right to it, but there is good land and bad land, and every one would like to take the good land. How is one to do in order to get it justly divided? In this way: he that will use the good land must pay those who have got no land the value of the land he uses. Such a project was for Tolstoy intrinsically religious, moreover, and, as Wenzer states, “[t]he Georgist commune was to eventually develop into what Tolstoy envisioned as a mirror image of heaven on an earth with man and all creatures living in concord.” Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society in accordance with Georgist principles, Tolstoy believed that the Christian task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality. In the decade leading up to Tolstoy’s death, Russian society spiraled in ever-greater unrest. Peasants rose up against the authorities, socialists and communists proliferated, and the government used horrific violence to control the populace. “Tolstoy’s fears had become a monstrous reality,” writes Wenzer. “People were suffering even more, and blood was pouring in the streets.” Tolstoy, then in his late seventies, continued writing at a furious pace in a desperate effort to save his country. He went so far as to write letters to Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich advocating for Georgist land reform. He scorned socialist and democratic solutions, believing that only the tsar could solve the situation by unilaterally going above government hierarchy to implement the reforms that could save Russia before it was too late. Tolstoy died, at eighty-two, in a railway station on November 20, 1910, his words unheeded. Within the decade, Russia slipped into full-scale revolution, culminating in the Bolshevik seizure of government and the violence of the Soviet regime. The cycles of oppression led only to more bloodshed, with one government replacing another while the people suffered. Yet it’s unlikely that Tolstoy’s reforms would have proved the panacea to Russia’s ills, as complicated and systemic as they were. It’s equally questionable to what extent his positions can be implemented today. As commentators have pointed out, many of Tolstoy’s ideas about economics and politics are shallow, even incoherent. Higgs, for instance, though admiring Tolstoy’s critiques of the state, calls his understanding of economics “abysmal.” Tolstoy’s approach is frequently emotional, moreover, literary rather than intellectual. And yet it’s precisely Tolstoy’s appeal to the heart as well as the head, to the conscience as the spark of divinity in every person, that makes his words reverberate down to the present. While we might question the specifics of his platform, his criticisms of injustice and vision of an equitable society retain much of their relevance and power. Few have cared so deeply for the poor and exploited or taken the quest to both know and live out truth more seriously than he, and harmony can’t be achieved otherwise. History will go on; not even a Tolstoy could shift its bloody wheels. But we can always seek truth. As Tolstoy wrote, “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth.”"]]> anarchism tolstoy christianity christiananarchism 2025 life society economics politics benwoollard inequality rural nikolaimikhailovich henrygeorge georgism power government kennethwenzer irinapaperno milivoystanoyevich freedom autonomy roberthiggs love truth rbfowler liberalism liberty anarchy peterkropotkin rousseau pierre-josephproudhon proudhon charlesfourier poverty homelessness russia norms civilization doctrine church orthodoxy participatory participation work workers labor eattherich wealth wealthaccumulation accumulation exploitation taxation taxes property gandhi idleness class thekingdomofgodiswithinyou nicenecreed injustice justice production institutions deceit ethics pacifism violence state suppression conscription resistance landreform land tsarnicholasii socialism democracy hierarchy reform reforms equity charity suffering 1886 nature humannature governance hamony sermononthemount reason consience loveofall liberation materialism parasites agriculture science art castes hierarchies intellectua https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0062d50c51d/ Red Flags: Before You Join That Org… | The Anarchist Library 2025-06-11T01:23:14+00:00 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/unsalted-red-flags-before-you-join-that-org robertogreco anarchism 2024 authoritarianism left redguards blackhammer psl tactics canon decentralization centralization power cooption recruitment coalitions fronts entryism deception dishonesty via:javierarbona dissent autonomy anarchy charisma leaders leadership authority abuse care caring lgbtq coercion self-criticism governance government horizontality hierarchy queer local bamn rcp frso rca cpusa sep iysse ycl lyc iso swp leninism maoism marxism communism stalinism values beliefs learning relationships cults gazikodzo bigotry sexism socialism liberation centralism cultism cultofpersonality purges co-optation cooptation marxism-leninism anti-authoritarianism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e028acaf1a5b/ Hasan Piker: Online Politics and the Left | Doomscroll - YouTube 2025-06-08T00:02:52+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKF-E4fhcnI robertogreco hasanpiker joshuacitarella 2025 twitch rightwing farright media left counterculture edgelords fascism antifascism medialiteracy multipolarity reindustrialization berniesanders alexandriaocasio-cortez aoc men gender masculinity institutions zionism antizionism israel palestine genocide nazism richardspencer nazis politics healthcare us turkey podcasts andrewtate republicans anxiety fear precarity manosphere transphobia democrats liberalism liberals neoliberalism deregulation right hierarchy hierarchies economics capitalism ideology statusquo thirdway markets labor workingclass socialism communism nancypelosi billclinton culture police policing policebrutality türkiye https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:10caa28b5c2a/ Does Anarchy Need Leaders? - YouTube 2025-06-04T03:58:25+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYVWbj8naBM robertogreco 2025 andrewism anarchism anarchy leadership authority power horizontality hierarchy privilege patriarchy capitalism liberalism authoritarianism oppression exploitation mutualism solarpunk expertise influence respect force guidance autonomy interdependence responsibility situational ideas example organizing organization unions examples revolution mutuality action struggle consciousness education emmagoldman erricomalatesta domingospassos hectormorel shawnwilbur reversedominance relations relationships powerdynamics behavior despotism egalitarianism practice praxis vigilance watchfulness malatesta andrewsage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:20028cfcc4f1/ The Dark Truth Behind Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine w/ Matt Bernstein - YouTube 2025-06-02T05:48:04+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8TSXHZwxo robertogreco taylorlorenz ashtonhall mattbernstein 2025 masculinity socialmedia influencers wellness isolation isolationism antisocial personalbranding politics men gender ryanbroderick exercise optimization discipline aesthetics tiktok stoicism toughness genderroles patriotism consumerism consumption economics status class materialism clothing wealth sexuality self-helpculture dalecarnegie tonyrobbins self-help influence prosperitygospel americandream individualism napoleonhill reaganism greed finance 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s 1940s power narcissism opulence 1990s 2000s metrosexuals fashion grooming hygiene davidbeckham homophobia fitness performance americanpsycho patrickbateman globalfinancialcrisis greatrecession self-reliance hustleculture independence relationships friends community families loneliness autonomy liberking survival survivalism bootstrapping venturecapital entrepreneurship garyvaynerchuk tailopez danbilzerian ostentation steroids bodybuilding appearance health 2010s podcasting jordanpeterson joerogan alp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:db478d349f1d/ Catherine Liu: Trauma, Virtue and Liberal Elites | Doomscroll - YouTube 2025-06-01T20:53:10+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6m3pIIS2k robertogreco catherineliu joshuacitarella 2024 pmc professionalmanagerialclass liberalism elitism progressive progressivism neoliberalism leftism technofeudalism virtue virtuehoarding rebellion superego newright economics trauma traumastudies selfbranding elitecapture institutions collapse us politics ideology left division divisiveness psychoanalysis deconstructivism deconstruction jacquesderrida memory memoryculture culture pauldeman literature oprahwinfrey oprah moralpanic popularculture elites traum hibrow lowbrow covid-19 coronavirus pandemic depolitizatioon suffering personalization individualism gentrification middleclass class labor karlmarx marxism revolution 1980s ronaldreagan aoc alexandriaocasio-cortez media socialmedia clickbait authenticity metoo narrative recovery therapy healthinsurance mentalhealth healthcare holocaust inequality credentials barbaraehrenreich johnehrenreich expertise professions professionalization ama binjaminwilkomirski petitbourgeois workingclass academia highered highereducation crede https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f664a9a40897/ LIVESTREAM: Reading J. Sakai’s Settlers” with Jared Ware (5/7/25) - YouTube 2025-05-07T20:59:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh-YU8mb75M robertogreco jsakai jaredware makc nickestes history us capitalism wobblies labor class indigeneity indigenous work workers mikedavis edwardonaci danberger jamesyakisales kersplebedeb michaelstaudenmaier etani kaésera iww afl-cio cio cpusa butchlee afl redrover manukaruka socialism race racism jmoufawad-paul solidarity proletariat webdubois imperialism antiimperialism colonialism colonization land settlers settlercolonialism wwi ww1 vladimirlenin lenin marxism friedrichengels karlmarx revolution anarchosyndicalism noelignatiev war nationalism internationalism exclusion tradeunions immigration newdeal counterinsurgency landownership reconstruction empire whitesupremacy hierarchy hierarchies myth mythology counterhistory howardzinn progressivism progressive inspiration europe uk internationalsolidarity ethniccleansing genocide slavery neocolonialism jimmiedurham aim redpowermovement maoism leninism thomasjefferson 1973 woundedknee dickwilson authoritarianism pineridge resourceextraction reservations standingrock governan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8f311ca07442/ ‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus | Lauren Lassabe Shepherd | The Guardian 2025-05-07T20:53:33+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/maga-republicans-us-universities robertogreco universities colleges highered highereducation christianity 2025 academia via:javierarbona laurenlassabeshepherd jdvance maga rightwing farright history donaldtrump elitism diversity equity equality inclusion inclusivity fdr curriculum mccarthyism communism redscare williamfbuckley josephmccarthy lbj lyndonjohnson 1980s 1990s greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis metoo blacklivesmatter ows occupywallstreet class 1960s 1965 race racism gender women gibill 1944 1930s protestants christianfundametalism evolution 1830s 1630s rulingclass conservatism politics us autocracy journalism hierarchy hierarchies harvard bennettcollege spelmancollege princeton sexism greatdepression thinktanks williamfbuckleyjr #metoo franklindelanoroosevelt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e3442c22a057/ A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy – albertlloreta.cat 2025-05-02T17:54:53+00:00 https://allr.cat/a-strange-stain-in-the-sky/ robertogreco albertlloreta technofeudalism technocracy siliconvalley californianideology technosolutionism technooptimism fascism authoritarianism hypernormality gabrielledrolet alexeiyurchak reality content confusion propaganda misinformation disinformation politics economics enshittification culture society consumerism consumption socialnetworks socialmedia democracy coup balajisrinivasan networkstate marcandreessen peterthiel paypalmafia elonmusk reidhoffman davidsacks chadhurley stevechen jawedkarim ai artificialintelligence crypto cryptocurrencies palantir darkenlightenment humnanity future libertarianism anarchocapitalism capitalism spacex privatization starlink seasteading bitcoin power control caralonia morocco montenegro drydenbrown obscurantism nazis nazism hierarchy hierarchies technology donaldtrump maga jdvance argentina germany italy italia unions resistance organization organzing labor work davidgraeber anarchism anarchy ows occupywallstreet thedawnofeverything adamcurtis democrats republicans corydoctorow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:28cc98f457b6/ JD Vance and the hidden religious divide erupting into politics | Vox 2025-04-20T21:54:48+00:00 https://www.vox.com/politics/405869/jd-vance-conversion-religion-politics-divide robertogreco religion 2025 catholicism christianity jdvance katherinekelaidis catholicchurch easternorthodoxy foreignness us democrats republicans history politics protestants ethnicity ideology economics gender sexuality multiculturalism conservatism manosphere jordanpeterson chrsitendom men manliness masculinty theology mattfradd youtube tiktok chadripperger sensusfidelium renégirard augustine staugustine saintaugustine hierarchy patriarchy church churches orhodoxy evangelicals evangelicalchristians methodists popefrancis taylormarshall michaelwarrendavis blacklivesmatter constitution life culture society pope xenophobia immigration whiteness traditionalism protestantism faith hierarchies ordoamoris leonpodles reformation community division civilsociety reality internet socilamedia thomasaquinas latefascistaesthetics fascistaesthetics fascism aesthetics jorgemariobergoglio jorgebergoglio https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e57b632e81ed/ DNA's real value: advertising, authoritarianism, apartheid 2025-04-11T21:57:12+00:00 https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/dnas-real-value-advertising-authoritarianism robertogreco edwardongwesojr 2025 23andme genetics dna hierarchy hierarchies capitalism donaldtrump siliconvalley edzitron malcolmharris scientism science whitesupremacy medicine biology eugenics spacs richardbranson finance pharmaceuticals glaxosmithkline telemedicine erikgordon startups databases data jasonkoebler charlesmurray opensnp greshaketzocarans quinnslobodian stuartschrader equality inequality egalitarianism bellcurve determinism welfarestate junkscience economics politics policy edwardongweso thebellcurve https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8e612afa678d/ "We refuse to change our [Syrian] identity" with Wael Tarbieh - YouTube 2025-04-05T23:16:53+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-tYmCiG41M robertogreco makdisistreet 2025 waeltarbieh golanheights syria sareemakdisi ussamamakdisi karimmakdisi israel occupation displacement dispossession history apartheid druze colonization colonialism settlercolonialism identity 1967 law legal almarsad ethniccleansing water waterrights lebanon southlebanon archives ethnicity ethnonationalism race racism gaza westbank eastjerusalem hierarchy hierarchies supremacy citizenship bedouins iof idf military sectarianism manipulation minoirities zionism minoritization religion us erasure education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8518c434672e/ The Farm at Black Mountain College - Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 2025-04-02T23:27:32+00:00 https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/the-farm-at-bmc/ robertogreco blackmountaincollege bmc davidsilver 2024 2025 farming workstudy art highereducation highered collectivism democracy work labor pedagogy colleges universities hierarchy workprogram community communitybuilding liberalarts collaboration animals nature gardening multispecies morethanhuman livestock teaching learning howweteach howwelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a730c84db813/ The Farm at Black Mountain College – Atelier Éditions Inc 2025-04-02T23:26:31+00:00 https://atelier-editions.com/products/the-farm-at-black-mountain-college robertogreco blackmountaincollege bmc davidsilver 2024 2025 farming workstudy art highereducation highered collectivism democracy work labor pedagogy colleges universities hierarchy workprogram community communitybuilding liberalarts collaboration animals nature gardening multispecies morethanhuman livestock teaching learning howweteach howwelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:74d28e1f8d40/ The Farm at Black Mountain College You Didn’t Know Existed 2025-04-02T23:26:07+00:00 https://hyperallergic.com/954310/the-farm-at-black-mountain-college-you-didnt-know-existed-david-silver/ robertogreco blackmountaincollege bmc davidsilver nancyzastudil 2024 farming workstudy art highereducation highered collectivism democracy work labor pedagogy colleges universities hierarchy workprogram community communitybuilding liberalarts collaboration animals nature gardening multispecies morethanhuman livestock teaching learning howweteach howwelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f67754ad43a/ The Untold Story of Black Mountain College | S9, E2 | DIALOGUES - YouTube 2025-03-31T18:42:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnavbftmpr8 robertogreco davidsilver bmc blackmountaincollege 2025 education history helenmolesworth davidzwirner farming workstudy art highereducation highered collectivism democracy work labor pedagogy colleges universities hierarchy workprogram decisionmaking consensus johnandrewrice heathersouth martinduberman josefalbers economics subversion charlesolson hierarchies teaching learning howweteach howwelearn theodoredreier teddreier community communitybuilding liberalarts collaboration mollygregory buildings building making makereducation participation participatory rollinscollege nanchapin organizing tinkering nellgoldsmith everyday corneliagoldsmith animals nature gardening multispecies morethanhuman asheville gender wwii ww2 livestock 1930s 1940s 1950s northcarolina photography https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:049635c10afa/ Late Fascist Aesthetics [Katie Ebner-Landy]: A Theory of the Online Forum - YouTube 2025-03-24T20:25:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRVtCXqtvA robertogreco aesthetics fascism 2025 katieebner-landy fascistaesthetics forums online internet web socialmedia aiaesthetics nationalsocialism nazis italy benitomussolini racism bureaucracy state mussolini authoritarianism violence enlightenment hierarchy gender families race sexism patriarchy farright india brasil brazil us albertotoscano socialcohesion authority capitalism neoliberalism culture uniforms crowds socialpractices society johannchapoutot nazism ethics ideology culturalrevolution latefascism 4chan discord gab onlineforums virtual reality 2016 2024 memes ukraine whitesupremacy donaldtrump israel palestine conspiracytheories antisemitism feminism rightwing pizzagate qanon 1993 history japan otaku identity status disaffected christopherpoole 2chan 2008 scientology greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis power anonymous wikileaks julianassange 2010 arabspring ows occupywallstreet 2012 manosphere masculinity incels depression betas neets misogyny 2013 liberalism reactionaries zoequinn games gaming videogames doxing ga https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ffdb8e1bcda2/ COMMUNIA 02: Educació i (falsa) innovació - Amb Marta Venceslao i Jordi Solé | CGT EN RED - YouTube 2025-03-21T19:11:47+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y03qOqL0CuY robertogreco martavenceslao jordisolé 2025 education paulofreire modernschools ferrerschools franciscoferrer schools schooling pedagogy howweteach teaching catalonia cataluña brazil brasil history barcelonia worldbank politics radicalism anarchism anarchy alternative privatization democracy neoliberalism pilarcarrera eduardoluque spectacle class inequality society socialreproduction capitalism economics domination alienation obedience liberation freedom power control indoctrination labor work literacy criticalthinking learning howwelearn unesco competencies universities colleges academia highered highereducation assessment hannaharendt children adolescence youth resistance emergentcurriculum publicschools emergent elitism authoritarianism authority libraries conversation technology collectivism progressivism progressive johndewey responsibility participation participatory edutainment maríazambrano culture teachers screens digital neuroscience psychology screentime simoneweil attention edtech memorization repetiti https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c912f5ad412c/ Lessons in Global Solidarity with James Kilgore - YouTube 2025-03-20T21:42:24+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJw4zV0yf6c robertogreco jameskilgore jaredware solidarity 2025 antiimperialism millennialsarekillingcapitalism us mutualaid zimbabwe international southafrica civilrights surveillance incarceration prisons prisonabolition abolitionism socialism massincarceration vicliu global 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values whig history alexanderdugin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:046dc72ae66e/ PART I: WTF Happened to Europe? Yanis Varoufakis, Grace Blakeley, Katie Halper & Melanie Schweizer - YouTube 2025-03-09T00:21:18+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG4iMEKv81Q robertogreco 2025 yanisvaroufakis graceblakeley katiehalper melanieschweizer authoritarianism israel gaza policy russia vladimirputin power rulinglass labor capital workingclass war economics impericalism wealthinequality noamchomsky boeing markets vulturecapitalism neoliberalism eu europe austerity privatization hierarchy democracy rulingclass uk margaretthatcher work workers unemployment regulation deregulation military militaryindustrialcomplex monopolies airbus us lobbying right rightwing activism protest elonmusk donaldtrump mehrankhalili henryford nazis order discipline control unions antiunion unionbusters demilitarization cooperation newcoldwar coldwar elites elitism palestine organization organizing poverty despair left imperialism nato germany debt 2008 2020 globalfinancialcrisis greatrecession covid-19 coronavirus pandemic marxism karlmarx nicospoulantzas keynsianism decarbonization fossilfuels climatechange globalwarming ecology environment sustainability armsindustry keirstarmer baesystems wareconomy liberali https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4cb4ae9ba876/ The Birth of a Monster: America's Oligarchs and What They Want 2025-03-01T18:08:10+00:00 https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-a-monster-americas-oligarchs robertogreco us oligarchy jaredyatessexton 2025 elonmusk donaldtrump wealth bigtech militaryindustrialcomplex coldwar internet globalissm billclinton waronterror monopolies government governance regulation deregulation barackobama stem ideology richardbarbrook andycameron californianideology democracy control power jeffbezos amazon google markzuckerberg meta facebook starlink spacex aleksandrdugin russia neoliberalism eugenics cruelty extractivism labor work oppression violence curtisyarvin darkenlightenment authoritarianism fascism neonazis suppression hierarchy hierarchies capitalism libertarianism individualism menciusmoldbug neoreactionaries globalwaronterror nerdreich https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5dac5942c35a/ "Crack-Up Capitalism": Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & Movement to "Shatter" the State - YouTube 2025-02-23T17:17:38+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIPWekMahXc robertogreco quinnslobodian 2025 elonmusk donaldtrump jdvance afd germany conservatism christianity neonazis nazis money politics policy accelerationism finance corporations corporatism billclinton algore russellvought project2025 government governance curtisyarvin nickland sovereignty decentralization socialdarwinism bureaucracy stevebannon nativism maga labor visas immigration eugenics iq hierarchy democracy hierarchies right farright gender masculinity sexism racism race feminism newdeal patriarchy whitesupremacy slavery civilwar economics ethnonationalism modernity giorgiameloni tommyrobinson viktororbán italy hungary uk multiculturalism greatreplacementtheory liberalism refugees italia menciusmoldbug neoreactionaries darkenlightenment nerdreich https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:230645901677/ Robert Topinka — “Back to a Past that Was Futuristic”: The Alt-Right and the Uncanny Form of Racism | boundary 2 2025-02-11T22:19:58+00:00 https://www.boundary2.org/2019/10/robert-topinka-back-to-a-past-that-was-futuristic-the-alt-right-and-the-uncanny-form-of-racism/ robertogrecoroberttopinka altright race racism curtisyarvin darkenlightenment stevebannon donaldtrump 2019 menciusmoldbug propaganda jodidean coreyrobin rightwing peterthiel richardspencer angelanagel noamchomsky limorshifman benjaminbratton identitypolitics identity whitesupremacy johnstuartmill eugenics hierarchy neoreactionaries nerdreich https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52abd8fba2bf/