What is CHT? How does it work?
Table of Contents
A graph of key topics, addressed by the Totalist system.
¶*** (1) "What are you building to engage the system & the economy as a whole?"
###[!!]20211112@khg was raised that "disrupt" is a bs word
¶ (1.0) TO "DISRUPT" THE BOURGEOIS ECONOMY OR THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE, TOWARDS COMMUNISM, SOME WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE →
↓ Endothermic work
¶ (1.1) OWN INFRASTRUCTURE (SUBSISTENCE & WORK MEANS)
BUILDING / CURATING / ASSEMBLING / MAINTAINING
THE INFRASTRUCTURE COMMONS IN CANARIES
FOR COMRADES' DAILY LIFE & WORK
### Critical in TRANSITION time
### Traces edges of POST-REVOLUTION / NEW-STATE
### simply: HACKING AND ORGANIZING TO SPEND AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE→NOT PARTICIPATING→NOT WASTING TIME. this is missing !!!
### include :
(A) Material
→ 🔗stuff, 🔗ordering, 🔗tech-tree, [...]
### tech tree could be hybrid?
(B) Immaterial
→ #🔗protocols, #🔗systematics, #🔗economics, [...]
BUILDING / CURATING / ASSEMBLING / MAINTAINING
THE INFRASTRUCTURE COMMONS IN CANARIES
FOR COMRADES' DAILY LIFE & WORK
(A) Material
→ 🔗stuff, 🔗ordering, 🔗tech-tree, [...]
(B) Immaterial
→ #🔗protocols, #🔗systematics, #🔗economics, [...]
↓ Exothermic work
¶ (1.2) INFRASTRUCTURE REPLICATION (AS PATTERNS & INSTANTIATION)
PRODUCING ABSTRACTIONS, TO SUPPORT AFFINITY REPLICATION OF ABOVE
_______________________________________
→ DURATIONAL (= continuation)
→ SPATIAL (= expansion & transplantion)
_______________________________________
(A) Documentation
→(same links as above, used as a generic plan)
→ 🔗puzzles
(B) Spread
(presentations, interactions, invitations, [...])
### consider "LIMITATIONS" such as #antirelease, CL, etc
PRODUCING ABSTRACTIONS, TO SUPPORT AFFINITY REPLICATION OF ABOVE
_______________________________________
→ DURATIONAL (= continuation)
→ SPATIAL (= expansion & transplantion)
_______________________________________
(A) Documentation
→(same links as above, used as a generic plan)
→ 🔗puzzles
(B) Spread
(presentations, interactions, invitations, [...])
¶ (1.3) COURSE-SETTING
DETERMINING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE,
UNDERSTANDING & INTERACTING WITH FELLOW TRAVELLERS
(A) via NEWS / MEDIA / ...
Following day-to-day situation.
→ 🔗left-media, 🔗postmedia, [...]
(B) via HISTORY / TACTICS / POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ...
Macropolitical view, larger patterns of past and present.
→ #🔗systematics, 🔗struggling, 🔗commonground, [...]
###AWK[!!]
(C) via INTER-ACTING
Support fellow current actor codiscovery, coordination & consolidation.
(including overviews, communicating out / social media, etc )
→ #🔗systematics, 🔗intersub, 🔗alike, 🔗maps, [...]
→ 🔗consolidation
DETERMINING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE,
UNDERSTANDING & INTERACTING WITH FELLOW TRAVELLERS
(A) via NEWS / MEDIA / ...
Following day-to-day situation.
→ 🔗left-media, 🔗postmedia, [...]
(B) via HISTORY / TACTICS / POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ...
Macropolitical view, larger patterns of past and present.
→ #🔗systematics, 🔗struggling, 🔗commonground, [...]
(C) via INTER-ACTING
Support fellow current actor codiscovery, coordination & consolidation.
→ #🔗systematics, 🔗intersub, 🔗alike, 🔗maps, [...]
¶ (1.4) DIRECT STRUGGLE
DOING "WHAT IS TO BE DONE": Research, systematize, curate, develop targeted knowledge and tools — to progress cause & stifle opposition. Within domains: TRANSITIONAL / POST-REVOLUTION; PERSONAL / LOCAL / GLOBAL; ACUTE / ROUTINE / REGULAR; PRE-EMPTIVE / REACTIVE; IN THEORY / TACTICS / PRAXIS; [...]
XXX🔗whatistobedone
DOING "WHAT IS TO BE DONE": Research, systematize, curate, develop targeted knowledge and tools — to progress cause & stifle opposition. Within domains: TRANSITIONAL / POST-REVOLUTION; PERSONAL / LOCAL / GLOBAL; ACUTE / ROUTINE / REGULAR; PRE-EMPTIVE / REACTIVE; IN THEORY / TACTICS / PRAXIS; [...]
¶ * Build capacity & maintain preparedness:
personal, and as a loose association of people
→ 🔗fields
personal, and as a loose association of people
→ 🔗fields
¶ * Participate in all forms of progressive political opportunities:
(including elections, protests, international support, [...])
→ 🔗struggling
(including elections, protests, international support, [...])
→ 🔗struggling
¶ * Tools to support common understanding:
→ 🔗representation.systems
→ 🔗postmedia
→ 🔗left-media
→ 🔗polemics and 🔗numerics
→ 🔗postchatter
### XXX🔗coordination
→ 🔗representation.systems
→ 🔗postmedia
→ 🔗left-media
¶ * Transitional & post-revolutionary economic models:
→ 🔗subfinance
→ 🔗postmarket
→ 🔗comrade-license
→ 🔗subfinance
→ 🔗postmarket
→ 🔗comrade-license
¶ * Scheme, specify and develop software:
(to support other goals)
→ 🔗dev-index
Especially:
* Co-ordination support systems
* Planned economy software research
* Knowledge tools
* [...]
(to support other goals)
→ 🔗dev-index
Especially:
* Co-ordination support systems
* Planned economy software research
* Knowledge tools
* [...]
¶*** (2) How does CHT relate to prefigurative anarcho-communist projects? Does CHT think to forego the need for a dictatorship of the proletariat?
(2022-08-09: In response to a comment on the discussion 🔗channel, attempting to relate CHT with Rojava, Chiapas)
As I understand, Rojava, Chiapas and other communes establish prefigurative anarcho-communist societies, taking complete and territorial power, and trying to keep that power against all forms of reactionary vectors (external/internal, direct/proxy, military/culturally revanchist, by class interest/by particular ignorance, etc).
Meanwhile, CHT attempts to find/assemble/complete/instantiate/document new institutional tactics, that work opt-in alongside the bourgeois state and other actors, and though opportunistic, are systematic in the relation to them. CHT secures a stock of own means of reproduction and production (focusing to accomplish it with minimum effort) — in this sense it is mutualist, but does not end there. Simply put, the goal is to offer sets of clear, accessible and effective (re)production patterns directly to the vanguard, so to not waste away in the capitalist labour form. Infrastructures replicable in both time (→continue the CHT project), and scale (→assist new instances of the model).
This is in contrast to communities (including a lot of existing anarchistic prefiguration, like squats), that by my understanding attempt to do this in particularist ways, on the level of mostly implicit relations within groups of people. Only secondarily, they collate dispositional knowledge in "zines", "theory", "networks", etc, with formal ways of expressing and instantiating this knowledge being a side thought.
This turn to the form, or substrate, of tactics is integral to a possibility of "totalism". That's why we are specifically R&D-ing hypermedia tools (and the neccessary support environment/scaffolding). As CHT believes the communist project critically relies on means of information, the vanguardist format could then only come out of the highest technical expression of that, so, produced in concert with information/knowledge technologists or (per McKenzie Wark) "the hacker class".
Meanwhile, CHT/hackbase crews (in a way, communards) produce surplus work, greatly extended in quantity and quality by the fact they are mostly removed from the capitalist labour form, and instead embedded in counter-economic forms.
While reproduction (of the CHT, and crews personally) take effort to keep existing, it also produces extensive results that are useful to the general communist project. CHT uses chemical language to express this. The first type of labour — the vanguardist reproduction — is endothermic, and contributes to personal well being of the communards. The second — vanguardist progression — is exothermic, and contributes towards general (local, trans-local and general) communist goals.
Those are ultimately, within the West: to reach the "activation energy" neccessary for a local revolution; and to continously and successfuly prevent interventions from the imperialist core, trying to encroach on successful communistic & anti-imperialistic projects abroad (especially PRC & the global south).
In this, it is one of the means, and purportedly a neccessary one, to catalyze a revolutionary dynamic in the west.
(2022-08-09: In response to a comment on the discussion 🔗channel, attempting to relate CHT with Rojava, Chiapas)
As I understand, Rojava, Chiapas and other communes establish prefigurative anarcho-communist societies, taking complete and territorial power, and trying to keep that power against all forms of reactionary vectors (external/internal, direct/proxy, military/culturally revanchist, by class interest/by particular ignorance, etc).
Meanwhile, CHT attempts to find/assemble/complete/instantiate/document new institutional tactics, that work opt-in alongside the bourgeois state and other actors, and though opportunistic, are systematic in the relation to them. CHT secures a stock of own means of reproduction and production (focusing to accomplish it with minimum effort) — in this sense it is mutualist, but does not end there. Simply put, the goal is to offer sets of clear, accessible and effective (re)production patterns directly to the vanguard, so to not waste away in the capitalist labour form. Infrastructures replicable in both time (→continue the CHT project), and scale (→assist new instances of the model).
This is in contrast to communities (including a lot of existing anarchistic prefiguration, like squats), that by my understanding attempt to do this in particularist ways, on the level of mostly implicit relations within groups of people. Only secondarily, they collate dispositional knowledge in "zines", "theory", "networks", etc, with formal ways of expressing and instantiating this knowledge being a side thought.
This turn to the form, or substrate, of tactics is integral to a possibility of "totalism". That's why we are specifically R&D-ing hypermedia tools (and the neccessary support environment/scaffolding). As CHT believes the communist project critically relies on means of information, the vanguardist format could then only come out of the highest technical expression of that, so, produced in concert with information/knowledge technologists or (per McKenzie Wark) "the hacker class".
Meanwhile, CHT/hackbase crews (in a way, communards) produce surplus work, greatly extended in quantity and quality by the fact they are mostly removed from the capitalist labour form, and instead embedded in counter-economic forms.
While reproduction (of the CHT, and crews personally) take effort to keep existing, it also produces extensive results that are useful to the general communist project. CHT uses chemical language to express this. The first type of labour — the vanguardist reproduction — is endothermic, and contributes to personal well being of the communards. The second — vanguardist progression — is exothermic, and contributes towards general (local, trans-local and general) communist goals.
Those are ultimately, within the West: to reach the "activation energy" neccessary for a local revolution; and to continously and successfuly prevent interventions from the imperialist core, trying to encroach on successful communistic & anti-imperialistic projects abroad (especially PRC & the global south).
In this, it is one of the means, and purportedly a neccessary one, to catalyze a revolutionary dynamic in the west.