Planning Against Palestine

"But while this real estate logic of genocide (“the demolition phase”) persists in the minds and actions of key players, the September Trump plan and some of the more detailed proposals that preceded and prepared it—namely the leaked documents detailing the Tony Blair Institute’s (TBI) Gaza International Transition Authority (GITA) and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-linked Gaza Reconstitution Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust—fold that logic into a broader neo-colonial design. I want to argue that this design is both symptom and evidence of the intimate links and elective affinities between the seemingly fringe utopias of the far right, especially in its “techno-fascist” proclivities, and the core ideologies and practices of contemporary imperialism. At a deeper level, what we can see at work in these diagrams of dispossession is the nexus between accumulation and elimination, the genocidal logic of recursive “so-called primitive accumulation.” In other words, to borrow from Venezuelan Marxist literary critic Ludovico Silva, it is a salient dimension of capitalism’s relations of destruction."

https://proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/planning-against-palestine/

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #CapitalAccumulation #Imperialism

“These guys have, both at the corporate level and at the individual level, been even better at avoiding taxes than in making good products,” Stiglitz said. “The level of taxes they pay as a share of their profits should be an embarrassment to them.” The 24 superbillionares declined to comment or didn’t respond to requests for comment.

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/meet-superbillionaires-worlds-ultra-rich-cb7a797c?st=7un8Cf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#classwar #classwarfare #oligarchy #corruption #taxavoidance #capitalism #capitalaccumulation #primitiveaccumulation #elonMusk #markzuckerberg #davidKoch #charlesKoch #Fascism #MAGA #corporatewelfare #usPol

"The #extremeright does not hate #thestate, but just enough to gain access to it and occupy it. Once in power it does not destroy it, it tries to reconfigure it. #Milei, #Trump or #Bolsonaro aim to destroy public regulations that deal with social reproduction and favour private regulation of #capitalAccumulation. State action is not dissolved but reoriented to constitute a new, ultra-punitive power of command capable of assisting the order required by the #markets."

https://autonomies.org/2024/12/diego-sztulwark-one-year-of-mileis-government/

#USElection2024 #CNN #PresidentialDebate

Dear US citizens,
if you have the choice between the king of #disinformation, who contributes to the #exploitation of the poor and the state with #capitalaccumulation, or an #oldgrandpa who is poorly understood but politically wise, you should choose the grandpa!

About using AI for art... I'm seeing a lot of attacks against AIs like DALL•E by artists (which I think is good, as I will further elaborate) but they make it by arguing that AI "is bad because in reality it is stolen art" and thus claiming legitimation having their critiques backed by intellectual property regulations (which is awfully bad). So I wanted to make a few points here.

Why do I think that attacking AIs like DALL•E is a good thing? I posted a couple of times my thoughts on the relation between capitalism and technology. Technology is not "just a tool" or "something neutral" that can just be taken over by one mode of production or the other. Historically, the first factories *were not* especially efficient at producing items and it is a myth that capitalism came to rule due to some kind of objective superiority and higher productivity than the Ancient Regime. But factories were indeed especially efficient at producing *commodities* as a social relation and reproducing hierarchies and domination thanks to the concentrarion of previously disseminated workers, the physical disposition of the space, constant surveillance and the submission of the worker under the constant rythms of the machine, becoming the worker, put in Marx's words "a living appendix of a dead machine" (or something like that, I don't remember the literal quote idc).

Therefore, technology is not just "a tool", but also a materialization of the modes of production. We should assume that, in a economy not based on domination, but rather on self-fulfillment and liberty, the technology deployed in production and community's necessary labours would be very different, as it would be embedded in completely different social relations. For this reason, we should also assume that an AI for the creation of art would look very different if it was developed *by the artists and the artistic community themselves*. That's why I don't like most of AIs used for art; my argument is not against AIs themselves (I don't know enough about the topic yet and I abstain from making mayor judgements), but against the functions they fulfull under capitalism and the social dynamics that they materialize. Would there be any art AIs under anarchy? I don't know, but if there were, they would be for sure very different. Capitalism is incredible at turning technical development that could potentially improve many people's lives into a tool of oppression and capital accumulation. And, as I pointed out, this aim toward capital accumulation *is constitutive* to the design of the tool itself. The modes of production are constitutive to the very essence of any tool.

These are just thoughts of mine and I wanted to share them because I'm seeing a lot of intellectual property legitimation as a quirk kind of "defense" for the precarious artists that feel threatened by the development of art AIs. Small artists must have it very clear that intellectual property *is not* the substract upon to build their critiques, but rather one more instrument for their oppression. STOP backing your claims with accusations of art robbery and copyright infringement because THAT IS DEFINETLY NOT the way to go.

#Technology #Capitalism #AI #Dall-E #OpenAI #Precarization #Art #ArtIndustry #CapitalAccumulation #Anarchism