Notices by Antanicus (antanicus@social.coop), page 3

Given a choice between #basicincome and #jobgurantees, I'll take #basicincome. I'm not interested in working a government-issued bullshit job.

http://timharford.com/2018/07/the-secret-to-happiness-after-the-robot-takeover/

@G @aidy
"Analizzando l'esperienza degli stati socialisti e la loro conclusione e' chiaro che nel socialismo reale non vi e' stato alcun cambiamento nello stile e nei modi di vita rispetto alla vita capitalista del resto del mondo. Percio` un progetto di liberazione del Kurdistan e della societa` non poteva pervenire da una soluzione statalista" . A. Ocalan

make your password something innocuous like "yeah i'm ok with tuesday" so if you accidentally type it into a chat window, it's not immediately obvious as a pw

è l'attesa dell'inverno essa stessa inverno?
col cazzo amici, col cazzo.

"Capitalism was built on the bodies of millions from the very start. From the late 17th century onwards, the transatlantic slave trade became a pillar of emergent capitalism. Much of the wealth (…) was made from the enslaved labour of Africans. The capital accumulated from slavery – from tobacco, cotton and sugar – drove the industrial revolution in Manchester and Lancashire (…) The west is built on wealth stolen from the subjugated, at immense human cost."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/communists-capitalism-stalinism-economic-model

As we're approaching pre-French Revolution inequality levels and poverty is spreading across the west like wildfire, capitalist aristocracy turns to FT's experts to discover new ways to spend the wealth they stole from us.

TAKE. OUT. THE. GUILLOTINE.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/19/how-to-spend-it-the-shopping-list-for-the-1-percent

Seeing how deeply oblivious people are about the inner workings of the neoliberal system is both frightening and fascinating. Some friends of mine were chatting about Amazon (because prime days), afraid of "the consequences of such concentration of wealth" and wondering "how did Bezos become a multi-billionaire in just 12 years", yet they somehow couldn't connect the dots... Debord was right: the spectacle is invisible to those living in it.

"Last year [the] collective worth [of India's 119 billionaires] amounted to $440bn – more than in any other country, bar the US and China. By contrast, the average person in India earns barely $1,700 a year. Given its early stage of economic development, India’s new hyper-wealthy elite have accumulated more money, more quickly, than their plutocratic peers in almost any country in history."

The miracles of neoliberalism....

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/the-staggering-rise-of-indias-super-rich

"These 4,000 acres of autonomous territory, this ‘zone to defend’, has existed despite the state and capitalism for nearly a decade – and no government can allow such a place to flourish. This is why France’s biggest police operation since May 1968, at a cost of €400,000 a day, has been mobilised to evict us, with 2,500 gendarmes, armoured personnel carriers (APCs), bulldozers, rubber bullets, drones, 200 cameras and over 11,000 tear gas and stun grenades."

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/battle-of-the-zad/

"(...) Soros published an updated version of Opening the Soviet System, titled Underwriting Democracy, which revealed his new strategy: he would dedicate himself to building permanent institutions that would sustain the ideas that motivated anticommunist revolutions, while modelling the practices of open society for the liberated peoples of eastern Europe."

"Liberated" as in: "now finally free to sell themselves at the lowest price possible to serve as Europe's private third world"

"For him, (...) a free society depends on free (...) markets. But this assumed connection has proven to be a false one. The decades since the end of the cold war have demonstrated that, without a perceived existential enemy, capitalism tends to undermine the very culture of trust, compassion and empathy upon which Soros’s “open society” depends, by concentrating wealth in the hands of the very few."

The freer the market, the freer the people, huh?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/06/the-george-soros-philosophy-and-its-fatal-flaw