A digital shock doctrine for the left

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I recently read What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy? by Christian Fuchs. It's a great article, outlining the tools we might need to build leftist digital infrastructures that can withstand attempts to destroy it from the right.

But beyond resilience, we also need a programme for transition - how do we get from the current stage of digital capitalism to something better?

Capitalism is a complex adaptive system¹. Unfortunately for society and the planet, a very resilient one².

For systems, resilience is the capacity to survive crises, disruptions, shocks, and attacks³. Resilience determines whether shocks lead to restoration of the old system or to systemic transition.

• The left should use moments of chaos to achieve emancipation
• The left needs a shock doctrine to undermine the resilience of capitalism and to support a shift
• Though resilient, Capitalism is prone to crisis.
• Leverage points are…
• A shock doctrine is…
• A shock doctrine for the left is…
• A digital shock doctrine for the left is…
• Some shocks:
  • AI, Win 10, memory crisis
• What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?
• The Shock Doctrine of the Left