What is insect
ommunism? Is it different from anarchy in general? — The problem with generic anarchism is that it respects individual agency and wants to achieve soc...https://curiouscat.me/SchWunDForM/post/503465777?1527746411 …
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Replying to @adornofthagn
I'm still trying to get my head round the xrd stuff, convinced it could mean crime problems for patchwork if the tech is used for robbery extortion, but organised crime would be a conservative part of that order that wants to skim off it continuously so still anti-revolutionary
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
this assumes two things that seem, to me, to contradict the trajectory of xrd, namely that the distrubtion of x-risk capacity would leave hierarchical structures untouched and in fact align with them tbs, criminals/fash are the ones to whom it must seem most attractive atm
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Replying to @adornofthagn
Well I wonder if their will be a gradient to it, such that by the time some weaponry is easily available it's superceded by something new and difficult to obtain, e.g. everyone gets nukes but the cities have forcefields by then...
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed @adornofthagn
I don't doubt it will wreck most hierarchies but that doesn't mean it won't produce new ones, and if states/corporations remain productive and I'm betting they will, there's incentive to keep them, even if just to steal from
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
Danegeld-based communism? Sounds good to me. Wrt forcefields, development of offensive capacity outstripping defensive innovation seems almost like a law of nature, hence the primacy of deterrence
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Replying to @adornofthagn
The forcefields are a long shot but NRx should really start investing in them
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
Lol probably, but all it takes to render them useless is getting/recruiting hellcommunist agents inside
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Communist utopia 2665: 'What's with the ghost town behind the impenetrable forcefield?' 'Oh some dead guy's idea of a joke'
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