No.1781677
The Doom modding community is actually existing communism, all those .wad files are being passed around for free and so are the modding tools
No.1781776
>>1781297I lean more towards Andre Gunder Frank's ideas about modes of production than "communism is when we share coffee and booze" fucks' sake man
No.1781987
>Nothing illustrates this better than 2008. If Wolgang Streeck is correct, 2008 was less an example of oscillating, periodic crisis (albeit one of unusual proportions) and more the ‘kicking the can down the road’ of crisis-suspension running backwards to the 1970s coming back to bite us, the ‘Great Recession’ expresses in itself all the truths that zombie-capital wishes to bury. And indeed, it is clear that since 2008, nothing has been the same. The Fed, formerly an essential figure relegated to the background, some abstract tool of policy wonks, moved to the fore. Quantitative easing, the fine-tune manipulation of the money supply, became a household word and the interest rate transformed was transformed into the defining feature of economic life. Nothing less than central planning was introduced on a grand, overt scale, functioning through esoteric special purpose vehicles, swap lines, Open Market Operations and the like…
>In Metacartel America, universal owners carefully manage vast economic resources while central banks work quickly as modulators of the money supply and acts as a backstop to prevent crisis from reaching its apex. Together, these form the the double pincer that allows central planning to truly take place in order to maintain capital in its state of suspended animation. Janus-faced monster, the socialism that nobody wanted—“A certain technocratic Omega-state is achieved”.
>edberg.substack.com/p/metacartel/
>SMarx and Engels recognized capitalism as a force of disruption and immiseration, but in it they recognized also the forces which would lead to socialism. Never did they assert this trajectory as voluntaristic, self-conscious construction of a new system by individuals subjectively opposed to capitalism. Rather, socialism was the inevitable conclusion of tendencies integral to capitalism itself. Capitalism was for them the process by which Socialism constructed itself, independent of any individual subjective will. Communism is the real movement which gives discursive and political recognition to this fact.
No.1782888
>>1781454See, nothing against Althusser, he wrote some interesting stuff.
But there's just no way in hell to have an interpretation of this passage to makes it is more than empty blather.