Phil Glover
@philipglover.bsky.social
Engineer by trade, philosophical anarchist with a Taoist take on Christianity. Absurdist humor helps me cope with our mad, mad, mad, mad world.
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writing "bitcoin" on every dead drive i dispose of to give a stranger hope
May 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
writing "bitcoin" on every dead drive i dispose of to give a stranger hope
So what's an anarchist to do when surrounded by so much nationalistic fervor for demagogues?
January 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
So what's an anarchist to do when surrounded by so much nationalistic fervor for demagogues?
I get why you're feeling that today, but a vanguard can always be corrupted and co-opted, and then it's just another instrument of power ready to be abused.
November 6, 2024 at 6:11 PM
I get why you're feeling that today, but a vanguard can always be corrupted and co-opted, and then it's just another instrument of power ready to be abused.
"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.
And victory no cause for rejoicing."
www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotz...
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.
And victory no cause for rejoicing."
www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotz...
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 31
www.wussu.com
October 22, 2024 at 12:43 AM
"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.
And victory no cause for rejoicing."
www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotz...
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.
And victory no cause for rejoicing."
www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotz...
Maybe if the Stalinists didn't subvert the revolution in 1937, it would have gone differently. It's almost like the pursuit of power was more important than what they were fighting for - how human.
May 23, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Maybe if the Stalinists didn't subvert the revolution in 1937, it would have gone differently. It's almost like the pursuit of power was more important than what they were fighting for - how human.
If both the socialists and anarchists were aligned against the communist dictatorship, doesn't that point out that maybe it wasn't so glorious of a revolutionary administration?
That they were so desperate to remove it from power as to side with liberals and moderates isn't a win for communism.
That they were so desperate to remove it from power as to side with liberals and moderates isn't a win for communism.
May 23, 2024 at 12:05 PM
If both the socialists and anarchists were aligned against the communist dictatorship, doesn't that point out that maybe it wasn't so glorious of a revolutionary administration?
That they were so desperate to remove it from power as to side with liberals and moderates isn't a win for communism.
That they were so desperate to remove it from power as to side with liberals and moderates isn't a win for communism.
No, I'm not accepting the authority of Marx as the only economist who understood how legal systems of power result in privilege and wealth for the few.
I'm pointing out that you're playing games with definitions to avoid my point that communism doesn't actually rid us of the need for commodities.
I'm pointing out that you're playing games with definitions to avoid my point that communism doesn't actually rid us of the need for commodities.
May 23, 2024 at 11:45 AM
No, I'm not accepting the authority of Marx as the only economist who understood how legal systems of power result in privilege and wealth for the few.
I'm pointing out that you're playing games with definitions to avoid my point that communism doesn't actually rid us of the need for commodities.
I'm pointing out that you're playing games with definitions to avoid my point that communism doesn't actually rid us of the need for commodities.
You're not making a point by asking what do we do when they start dropping bombs on us.
What did Vietnam do? What is Rojava doing? They're fighting. They're fighting and resisting. Of course you fucking resist empire when it goes on the offensive.
What did Vietnam do? What is Rojava doing? They're fighting. They're fighting and resisting. Of course you fucking resist empire when it goes on the offensive.
May 23, 2024 at 11:43 AM
You're not making a point by asking what do we do when they start dropping bombs on us.
What did Vietnam do? What is Rojava doing? They're fighting. They're fighting and resisting. Of course you fucking resist empire when it goes on the offensive.
What did Vietnam do? What is Rojava doing? They're fighting. They're fighting and resisting. Of course you fucking resist empire when it goes on the offensive.
It's authoritarian to disregard the state apparatus that enforces the privileges required to accumulate mass wealth?
May 23, 2024 at 11:42 AM
It's authoritarian to disregard the state apparatus that enforces the privileges required to accumulate mass wealth?
You're still producing commodities if you're producing things that are the same regardless of where they're produced. You can try to tell yourself otherwise, but at that point you're just playing semantics because papa Marx defined it as such.
May 23, 2024 at 11:39 AM
You're still producing commodities if you're producing things that are the same regardless of where they're produced. You can try to tell yourself otherwise, but at that point you're just playing semantics because papa Marx defined it as such.
You eliminate the legal construction of absentee ownership and that vast wealth accumulation is limited to what they can personally keep secure. You can't be a landlord without a state defending that artificial right to lord over the land.
May 23, 2024 at 11:36 AM
You eliminate the legal construction of absentee ownership and that vast wealth accumulation is limited to what they can personally keep secure. You can't be a landlord without a state defending that artificial right to lord over the land.
To be clear, I am completely against workers being commodified, but production of commodities is inescapable.
You're going to keep producing rice, corn, copper, and iron. No industrialized society will ever stop producing commodities. Even central planning bureaucracy will end up producing them.
You're going to keep producing rice, corn, copper, and iron. No industrialized society will ever stop producing commodities. Even central planning bureaucracy will end up producing them.
May 23, 2024 at 11:32 AM
To be clear, I am completely against workers being commodified, but production of commodities is inescapable.
You're going to keep producing rice, corn, copper, and iron. No industrialized society will ever stop producing commodities. Even central planning bureaucracy will end up producing them.
You're going to keep producing rice, corn, copper, and iron. No industrialized society will ever stop producing commodities. Even central planning bureaucracy will end up producing them.
Everyone of all political stripes dies when bombs are dropped on them, even communists.
May 23, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Everyone of all political stripes dies when bombs are dropped on them, even communists.
No, it isn't. You don't get to define all terms and call it truth. Just because you have a self-referencing lexicon given to you by M+L to reinforce your picture of the world doesn't make it right.
You can have markets without capitalism. You can organize without hierarchy. More is possible.
You can have markets without capitalism. You can organize without hierarchy. More is possible.
May 23, 2024 at 11:24 AM
No, it isn't. You don't get to define all terms and call it truth. Just because you have a self-referencing lexicon given to you by M+L to reinforce your picture of the world doesn't make it right.
You can have markets without capitalism. You can organize without hierarchy. More is possible.
You can have markets without capitalism. You can organize without hierarchy. More is possible.
By force when necessary. The cost of offense and maintaining occupation far outweighs the cost of defense and attrition against occupation. Cooperative resistance is possible.
If not, what will stop capitalists from seizing your revolutionary states when even the mighty USSR fell to capitalism?
If not, what will stop capitalists from seizing your revolutionary states when even the mighty USSR fell to capitalism?
May 23, 2024 at 11:20 AM
By force when necessary. The cost of offense and maintaining occupation far outweighs the cost of defense and attrition against occupation. Cooperative resistance is possible.
If not, what will stop capitalists from seizing your revolutionary states when even the mighty USSR fell to capitalism?
If not, what will stop capitalists from seizing your revolutionary states when even the mighty USSR fell to capitalism?
I'm not a Marxist. I don't see commodity production as inherently bad, I don't believe his careening hypothesis that markets inevitably lead to capitalism.
The state defending absentee ownership and the privileges of such wealth is the legal foundation of capturing markets for capitalism.
The state defending absentee ownership and the privileges of such wealth is the legal foundation of capturing markets for capitalism.
May 23, 2024 at 11:17 AM
I'm not a Marxist. I don't see commodity production as inherently bad, I don't believe his careening hypothesis that markets inevitably lead to capitalism.
The state defending absentee ownership and the privileges of such wealth is the legal foundation of capturing markets for capitalism.
The state defending absentee ownership and the privileges of such wealth is the legal foundation of capturing markets for capitalism.
A single individual accumulating some wealth through productive effort is good, actually. You can prevent them from turning that wealth into a business by not respecting absentee ownership and refusing wages, eliminating the means for them to own any product beyond their own personal production.
May 23, 2024 at 11:13 AM
A single individual accumulating some wealth through productive effort is good, actually. You can prevent them from turning that wealth into a business by not respecting absentee ownership and refusing wages, eliminating the means for them to own any product beyond their own personal production.
Through mutual association, contract, and federation.
May 23, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Through mutual association, contract, and federation.
Cuba's constitution provides for freedom of expression, but only if it "conforms to the aims of socialist society". The law bans criticism of government leaders and the distribution of antigovernment propaganda, with penalties ranging from three months to 15 years in prison.
May 23, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Cuba's constitution provides for freedom of expression, but only if it "conforms to the aims of socialist society". The law bans criticism of government leaders and the distribution of antigovernment propaganda, with penalties ranging from three months to 15 years in prison.