In most societies in our modern world, the mass consumption of meat has been made possible by its relative affordability through a combination of subsidies and economies of scale. But the relative affordability of meat calories is really subsidized through the externalization of costs through externalities like environmental devastation, human and animal suffering, and pollution.

Because the cost of externalities are not reflected in the cost of meat calories, it seems cheap. But this cheapness only makes sense in the context of the capitalist mode of production which externalizes environmental and health costs.

A society that has done away with the capitalist mode of production—whatever we can call it as degrowth/ anarchy/ communism—would reject the externalization of these externalities and consider costs no longer on the basis of monetary value, but on a holistic perspective taking into account mass suffering, environmental and health costs. Such a society will find that the mass consumption of meat is simply not worth the costs it inflicts in terms of suffering, environmental, and health.

Communization and revolution would change diets and meat-eating in a fundamental way more than a million individual choices to become vegan.

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On the anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, I am reminded of how reflecting on an uprising of the enslaved forms a crucial part of my politics, which is proletarian self-abolition. When I talk of prole self-abolition, talking about the self-abolition of the enslaved is an important metaphor.

When the enslaved abolishes their own enslavement, we mean the abolition of slavery. The emancipated does not institute slavery in new forms; we cannot talk of the “slavery by and for the enslaved.” In just the same way, the “proletarian state” is incoherence because the state forms part of proletarianization. To speak of a “proletarian state” is as if to speak of a “prole-administered proletarianization” or perhaps a “proletarianization by and for the proletariat,” a notion as incoherent as the “slavery by and for the enslaved.”

The prole, just like the enslaved, cannot institute the means of their oppression (proletarianization, enslavement) over their own class as a means of emancipating their class.

Just as the emancipation of the enslaved means the smashing of the edifice of slavery, the emancipation of the working class means the proletariat abolishing proletarianization, not its reconstitution in new form “by and for” the proletariat. It means the self-abolition of the proletariat, a self-emancipation by a revolutionary process.

As one French ultraleft group said it best, the revolution would be proletarian by those who make it and anti-proletarian in its content. Proletarian revolution is simultaneously anti-proletarian revolution.

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#communism @communism #communization #communisation

The riots in #France are cool and all. Breaking shit is great, it explodes capitalist normality and interrupts the valorization process.

But a revolutionary rupture is more than just breaking things, it means building something new. This can look like popular assemblies (some did emerge during the Yellow Vests moment), restoring production for needs under self-management, the occupations and communization of previously private spaces, exchange without money or mutual aid, etc.

I'm wondering if there's news to suggest the beginnings of any of these. We saw some of these emerge in the previous Yellow Vest moment in France, but generally France did return to status quo. Shall things turn out differently now?

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#communization
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Hi y'all, I'm new, here's my #introduction 👋🏻

I'm a software engineer, working professionally with #Elixir, Phoenix, #ClojureScript and #React. I like #functionalProgramming, tinkering with #Haskell and more recently learning #TypeScript and #Rust. 🦀

I practice #vipassana #meditation and try to attend at least one 10-day silent retreat every year. I'm an aspiring #kinbaku / #shibari rope bondage rigger, in the style of #semenawa.

Politically #leftist, I tend to gravitate toward #communism, #marxism and #communization theory. Spiritually #animist, I find it meaningful to view the world as a diversity of relational beings, both human and other-than-human, living and nonliving.

I'm #transgender (🏳️‍⚧️ she/her), into non-hierarchical #polyamory of the sleepiest variety, and nest with @cadaviary in Southern Appalachia.

Sometimes I write #poetry. ❤️‍🔥

More discussion on the exchanges between Dauve & co

"More post-modernism than communism. Comments on »#Communization«"

https://www.wildcat-www.de/en/wildcat/100/e_w100_communisation.html

might as well make an #introduction

im ivy. im 17. im a #queer #anarchist. i like #criticaltheory. im a #music nerd. i like #techno, #experimental, #krautrock, #ukbass, and even #numetal unironicly. uhh im a neet. not rlly by choice. i need money. im poor and i hate my family. im dating @malatesta1932. uhh im interested in #film too. and in the #avantgarde as a whole. i like #situationism and #communization a lot. im proudly have #autism and a proud #autistic and #nd. i like #cuddling. pls hug