Mastodawn

1 Is power and wealth part of the same object in measureing class?

2 Is industrial development environmentally sustainable?

3 Is the complex of the national/ethnic/local capital and state permanently dead or is it expected to resurrect itself?

4 Is worker oppression and exploitation visible when class is defined as it was in 19th century, or has management become capitalists by proxy?

5 Is the urban half of humanity conscious of the necessary exploitation and oppression of the other half? And how different have the mechanisms of control of both become?

Pro-Capitalists (including their serving tail of social reformers and disillusioned liberals ) believe that #NeoLiberalism is some form of ideology, people adopt those ideals and conduct politics accordingly.

Mainstream Marxists, clinging to their form of orthodoxy as it is the last raft they can float on, dismiss that there is such thing as NeoLiberalism

The few of those that try to pseudo-theorize about neoliberalism as an econ/polit. ideology and influence in politics, fail both in truly explaining historical events and convince the remaining Marxist community of the validity of their theorizing (branded charlatans and excommunicated)

Still there is a pattern described by events, the rhetoric of those who advocate of neoliberalism, some pseudo-theorists/philosophers who are portrayed my dominant culture as "fathers" of the doctrine, that as a sum is branded neoliberalism.

Just like capitalism, what is referred to as neoliberalism, comes to describe action, political, economic, social, organizational, after it materializes. Not the other way around. Fools think the idea was there, someone got convinced and practiced what the idea was about.

Since apart of Marxism we have no other theoretical/scientific tool to explain capitalism, either we have to lie about reality and deny it to defend theory, or we are failing to apply the correct theory appropriately to explain reality. The quick fact is the two don't exactly blend together and it has become more and more evident they don't.

The third possibility is there are certain faults, or extensions needed in current theory to explain the transition of the classical modern state (pre 1930s) and the later modern capitalist state (post 1940s) .. as the late rebound lead by the US as attempting to revert the transition referred to as neoliberalism.

Skipping back to the last known water-tight floating compartment we have, dialectical-materialism/science, we must re-examine where theory fails, what revision and extension it needs. But who are we to do it?

We can't be Marxists because they are too afraid to criticize and re-examine what they are floating on, they will faithfully and "religiously" defend every word and psalm they got. I wish they could consider.

We can't be idealists, because they are full of shit and in their cloudy mind if they think anything it is possible. Waste of breath speaking to the intoxicated.

What we have left is #anarchism but only within those who accept #Bakunin's materialist commitment (NoGodNoMaster) .. those who understand that #communism is not only possible, it is scientifically the only sustainable form of survival for humanity. (Communism NOT State Capitalism)

Those who understand that true equality is the foundation of freedom. #Libertarian #Communist / #Communalist

Theory and ideology, just as it happened with #Marxism, has the risk of forming organizational instruments that inevitably become hierarchical/authoritarian, due to an elite of experts forming around theoretical development. Unfortunately, with society drifting further and further away from struggle for equality, we may need to develop new theory to convince everyone (in our class at least) how futile capitalism is.

And as usual ... we have much work and cooperation that is needed while we are floating in this trend of dismissing any attempt for exploration ..

#OMN #IndyMedia #zapatistas #ezln #rojava #china #dprk #cuba #venezuela

Noticias de abajo 3d ago

Para entender Ecuador
https://ecuadorindymedia.org/

#Indymedia #medioslibres #Ecuador

Indymedia Ecuador

Periodismo Militante

Indymedia Ecuador

archivio grafton9 Apr 3

Che fare? (cit.)
https://grafton9.net/blog/progetti-2026/

Un riassunto delle nostre attività, progetti terminati, in corso, e futuri.
E a breve, la campagna di donazioni per sostenere i nostri esperimenti.

#archivingactivism #webarchiving #emulation #fanzine #indymedia #commons

witchescauldron Apr 3

Talking about the #geekproblem in #openweb funding https://hamishcampbell.com/talking-about-the-geekproblem-in-openweb-funding/ None of this is new, I like meany people been banging this drum since the #indymedia days and writing about it for decades.

Talking about the #geekproblem in #openweb funding – #OMN (Open Media Network)

steev hise Mar 29

So tired of inflated estimates of protest attendance by organizers. And strangely, most media outlets seem these days to just mention organizer counts. It used to be that mainstream media mentioned only police counts, 25 or so years ago. And we wouldtake #indymedia numbers and police numbers and split the difference.

Id love to believe there were 8 million at #nokings total, but when i see with my own eyes for years the protests being inflated by at least an order of magnitude locally, it just does not inspire trust. I know how to estimate big crowds; stand up high, count people in a row, roughly, multiply by rows as they march by or as you scan the area. You can get pretty close. And then thenext day the orgs say thousands when i know it’s hundreds. Or 100,000 when my count was maybe 5000.

It’s shameful when progressives pride themselves on science and verifiable stats and facts. It’s pure wishful thinking, confirmation bias.

And we have easy access to drones and machine vision technologies! It should be easy to get more accurate numbers.

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 28

Rebuilding Journalism as Commons (not a product)

https://hamishcampbell.com/news-culture-on-the-fediverse/ It should be obvious that we need a path back to good journalism - journalism that sheds light on facts, connects the dots, and lets people trace those dots back to sources. This is what allows us to share, question, and discuss within our own trusted communities, and then spread that knowledge outward through federation, always linking back to the source. Right now, the #mainstreaming path is broken. It’s sometimes hard for people […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-journalism-as-commons-not-a-product/

Rebuilding Journalism as Commons (not a product) – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 24

What We Can Learn from Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders

In #mainstreaming and alt political cultures there’s a constant call in messy times for “strong leaders” to cut through the chaos, but this is the wrong path. What Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders actually show is something more uncomfortable and more useful that real change doesn’t come from strong individuals - it comes from movements we don’t fully control. They were signals, not saviours. Both figures emerged on the left because something deeper was already shifting with […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-we-can-learn-from-jeremy-corbyn-and-bernie-sanders/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 17

A Note on “Security” for the #FOSS Crew

We need to have a clearer, more grounded conversation about “security” and what it actually means in the context of the #openweb. There is a long history of thinking in #FOSS spaces that security is something we can solve purely technically: better encryption, better protocols, better architectures. But in everyday life and practice, people need to work from a much simpler starting point - We do not trust client–server security. We only meaningfully trust what can be verified through […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/a-note-on-security-to-the-foss-crew/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 15

Thinking of workshops to run at “Nodes On A Web” #NOAW unconference

Hamish Campbell is a long-time #openweb activist and technologist working on grassroots media and digital commons. He was involved in the early development of #Indymedia and continues this work through projects like the Open Media Network (#OMN), which works on how federated tools and community publishing supports public-interest media infrastructure. His focus is balancing building native platforms and on growing the social culture that makes the #openweb work: transparency, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/thinking-of-workshops-to-run-at-nodes-on-a-web-noaw-unconference/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 14

Why It’s Difficult to Build the #OMN – and What We Can Do About It

One of the biggest barriers to building projects like the #OMN (Open Media Network) is not technical - it is structural - how resources are distributed in our society. Under capitalism, the driving force behind what gets built and what counts as “innovation” is profit. Investment flows toward projects that promise financial returns. Venture capital, grants, and corporate funding all operate under this logic: if a project can generate profit, scale, or market dominance, it is considered […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-its-difficult-to-build-the-omn-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/