Communist Conspiracy
"Postmarket" / "Postbourgeois" / "Strategic Absolute Mutualism"
Revisions: 2018/06 (First Draft) ; 2018/08 (Major review) ; 2020/07 (Review)
"We are comrades when we face the same dangers." (Platonov)
Reading helper:
→ 🔗postmarket-trail !
Table of Contents
¶ * Necessity of absolute redistribution
Recognizing somebody is contributing to the shared struggle, makes it shared interest for them to have the resources to subsist and be effective.
Resources in capitalist economies are acquired via a history of expropriation and exploitation (in the forms of either colonialism & displacement, heritage, profits & wage labour, etc.), flowed based on individual whim (shaped by systemic coercion by marketing and pop culture, resulting in arbitrary "consumer choices"), and then finally, become "personal property".
This all is deemed completely illegitimate. Thus optimally, all resources between comrades need to be redistributed on new grounds, by new mechanisms.
### new collectivist mechanisms, that completely bypass individualism. This is not a Donation scheme. It is voluntary only insofar as you
Recognizing somebody is contributing to the shared struggle, makes it shared interest for them to have the resources to subsist and be effective.
Resources in capitalist economies are acquired via a history of expropriation and exploitation (in the forms of either colonialism & displacement, heritage, profits & wage labour, etc.), flowed based on individual whim (shaped by systemic coercion by marketing and pop culture, resulting in arbitrary "consumer choices"), and then finally, become "personal property".
This all is deemed completely illegitimate. Thus optimally, all resources between comrades need to be redistributed on new grounds, by new mechanisms.
¶ * The shared struggle
Capitalism kills natures and cultures.
Stop ecocide - the anthropogenic destruction of nature.
Stop culturocide - the reproduction of wars, chauvinism, racism, sexism, economic exploitation and artificial scarcity, global inequality, deprivation of freedoms, plutocratic media and attention domineering, bullshit incentivization and norms, etc.
Capitalism kills natures and cultures.
Stop ecocide - the anthropogenic destruction of nature.
Stop culturocide - the reproduction of wars, chauvinism, racism, sexism, economic exploitation and artificial scarcity, global inequality, deprivation of freedoms, plutocratic media and attention domineering, bullshit incentivization and norms, etc.
¶ * Recognition of other comrades
Based on:
* Stated alignment: Observe clear pronouncement of shared struggle, and determination to pursue it.
* Merit: Historic, present and planned congruence of contributions with the shared struggle. Doing work that checks off actual parts of an increasingly explicated scheme, moving towards goals.
* Common-sense: Actually, it's quite easy to recognize comrades!
Dissimilar to communities, and more similar to the existing social welfare systems:
As a fully protocolised infrastructure, the conspiracy does not need to be a "tight-knit group", and has little to no organisational necessity for comrades to "get along" or to "trust eachother". It is in effect, a redistributive mechanism.
Based on:
* Stated alignment: Observe clear pronouncement of shared struggle, and determination to pursue it.
* Merit: Historic, present and planned congruence of contributions with the shared struggle. Doing work that checks off actual parts of an increasingly explicated scheme, moving towards goals.
* Common-sense: Actually, it's quite easy to recognize comrades!
Dissimilar to communities, and more similar to the existing social welfare systems:
As a fully protocolised infrastructure, the conspiracy does not need to be a "tight-knit group", and has little to no organisational necessity for comrades to "get along" or to "trust eachother". It is in effect, a redistributive mechanism.
¶ * General list of basic resources
In practice, this settles the definition of the basics, and the current common ability to provide for specific and occasional needs.
See 🔗resources.
Also see the "Universal Base Outcome" essay - last paragraph here.
In practice, this settles the definition of the basics, and the current common ability to provide for specific and occasional needs.
See 🔗resources.
Also see the "Universal Base Outcome" essay - last paragraph here.
¶ * A way of provisioning resources
:
* All regularly maintain personal resource sheets, consisting of:
* a list of (+) holdings
* a list of (-) expenses, with assigned priorities
* a set of suggested incoming & outgoing Conspiracy transactions
* The monthly council:
* consists of all willing to participate
* has basically no specifically virtuos or deliberative work to do - basically, bureocracy
* (increasingly automatic) iterates all expenses, and acts to confirm priorities
* asks for clarifications and reporting to guide development, and examines previous responses
* (increasingly automatic) collates, sums, and prepares a final list of transactions to & from parties
:
* All regularly maintain personal resource sheets, consisting of:
* a list of (+) holdings
* a list of (-) expenses, with assigned priorities
* a set of suggested incoming & outgoing Conspiracy transactions
* The monthly council:
* consists of all willing to participate
* has basically no specifically virtuos or deliberative work to do - basically, bureocracy
* (increasingly automatic) iterates all expenses, and acts to confirm priorities
* asks for clarifications and reporting to guide development, and examines previous responses
* (increasingly automatic) collates, sums, and prepares a final list of transactions to & from parties
¶ Expense priorities
Less basic things follow as common wealth increases.
All outbound expenses are listed, and categorized.
Some of it in practice:
* everyone gets "bailed out" of urgent matters when associating (initial disclosure of Primary needs)
* effectively, net financial contributors will have less available cash
* ... but that does not mean they have less access to goods or services, because of the synergistic effects of the conspiracy (sharing holdings, optimizing supply chains, etc)
* all have access to strategic investment capital
* Primary expenses include a "golden parachute" - 2 months of personal costs, to warrant against the case of catastrophic infrastructural collapse
* [...]
#TODO : more actual practice !!!
Less basic things follow as common wealth increases.
All outbound expenses are listed, and categorized.
Some of it in practice:
* everyone gets "bailed out" of urgent matters when associating (initial disclosure of Primary needs)
* effectively, net financial contributors will have less available cash
* ... but that does not mean they have less access to goods or services, because of the synergistic effects of the conspiracy (sharing holdings, optimizing supply chains, etc)
* all have access to strategic investment capital
* Primary expenses include a "golden parachute" - 2 months of personal costs, to warrant against the case of catastrophic infrastructural collapse
* [...]
¶ Transaction execution
:
* To save an additional step, and also defuse the need for trust in an intermediary, internal transactions (Equilibrating Transfers) go directly between parties - as opposed to if there was a central account that would first receive, and then redistribute funds.
* (The council only prepares an instruction set of these financial transactions, that is then executed by net contributors).
* In addition, this means net contributors keep a de-facto final control over actually executing each individual transaction.
Making transactions:
:
* To save an additional step, and also defuse the need for trust in an intermediary, internal transactions (Equilibrating Transfers) go directly between parties - as opposed to if there was a central account that would first receive, and then redistribute funds.
* (The council only prepares an instruction set of these financial transactions, that is then executed by net contributors).
* In addition, this means net contributors keep a de-facto final control over actually executing each individual transaction.
Making transactions:
¶DO !
Defuse "own property", to mutual resources.
This is where you actually start. If needed, ask for examples.
General run-through of the mutualization process.
(In more details below, and in other documents)
Ties to XXX🔗whatistobedone !
This is where you actually start. If needed, ask for examples.
¶ * Announce your implementation
Mail → info@totalism.org .
Best to put results into a new pad with any name, and
??? ingression ? application ?
Missing !!!!!!:
* Where to actually "apply"
* Process of "getting accepted"
Mail → info@totalism.org .
¶ * Quit personal finance !
(**Except the general & mandated Secondary personal reserves).
aka "Finanzamt"
Dissolve all personal dealing with money:
start by writing down your version of the template
→ 🔗template-financials
Dissolve all personal dealing with money:
start by writing down your version of the template
→ 🔗template-financials
¶ * Quit rent !
### second one needs to be inverted. then both can be "QUIT" or "SHARE" [!!!]
Reconsider your living situation.
Reorganize access to & use of all real estate (land, house, flat, etc).
QUIT or SHARE all rents!
→ QUIT !
Join an existing mutualized location, or, become fully nomadic, using a network of mutualized spaces.
→ SHARE !
Re-organize your current rented space to mutualize it. See 🔗hackbases!
SHARE or DISSOLVE owned real estate!
→ SHARE !
Mutualize all spaces. This includes guardianship, labour and financial investment, etc.
→ DISSOLVE !
Sell. Put liquid capital to common use. Move to an existing location.
Reconsider your living situation.
Reorganize access to & use of all real estate (land, house, flat, etc).
QUIT or SHARE all rents!
→ QUIT !
Join an existing mutualized location, or, become fully nomadic, using a network of mutualized spaces.
→ SHARE !
Re-organize your current rented space to mutualize it. See 🔗hackbases!
SHARE or DISSOLVE owned real estate!
→ SHARE !
Mutualize all spaces. This includes guardianship, labour and financial investment, etc.
→ DISSOLVE !
Sell. Put liquid capital to common use. Move to an existing location.
¶ * Commonize all material stuff !
The concrete mechanics of commonization (= mutualization, redistribution, etc) are described in more details elsewhere.
But have to be understood only as formality, that does not influence the overall validity of the call to mutualization.
!!! include more details here
This relates to 🔗stuff (example mutualized stock), 🔗vaults (a new practice of sharing space and dissolving ownership), etc.
The concrete mechanics of commonization (= mutualization, redistribution, etc) are described in more details elsewhere.
This relates to 🔗stuff (example mutualized stock), 🔗vaults (a new practice of sharing space and dissolving ownership), etc.
¶ * Quit your job!
* Rethink labour-market participation
How do you currently work for money? Think about work in the future, as a conspirator.
Either QUIT or KEEP your job:
A) Well-paid mainstream job [ > 5 PPPM ]:
A net financial contributor.
Wage subverter, an expropriator of expropriators.
B) Job in aligned organisations**:
B1) Better paid [ > 3 PPPM ]
B2) Worse paid & more aligned [ < 2 PPPM ]
C) Work without financial compensation [ < 0.5 PPPM ]:
You are recognised to contribute full-time & high impact.
You are broke.
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
** Some aligned organsations:
→ 🔗non-shitty
→ 🔗coop
How do you currently work for money? Think about work in the future, as a conspirator.
Either QUIT or KEEP your job:
A) Well-paid mainstream job [ > 5 PPPM ]:
A net financial contributor.
Wage subverter, an expropriator of expropriators.
B) Job in aligned organisations**:
B1) Better paid [ > 3 PPPM ]
B2) Worse paid & more aligned [ < 2 PPPM ]
C) Work without financial compensation [ < 0.5 PPPM ]:
You are recognised to contribute full-time & high impact.
You are broke.
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
** Some aligned organsations:
→ 🔗non-shitty
→ 🔗coop
¶ * Augment ! Support !
AUGMENT MUTUAL ABILITIES !
Take advantage of access to new common infrastructure.
An international set of living and work spaces, institutions, tools and methods are available to all.
SUPPORT SHARED STRUGGLE !
AUGMENT MUTUAL ABILITIES !
Take advantage of access to new common infrastructure.
An international set of living and work spaces, institutions, tools and methods are available to all.
SUPPORT SHARED STRUGGLE !