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*last tended: 29/12/2021
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Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).
- The commons enables people to assert sovereignty without nationalism
- Britain's welfare system is "unfit for purpose" and in urgent need of reform
- The commons enables people to enjoy freedom without repressing others
- Technology plays a significant role in political economy
- Social revolution is necessary in order to bring about structural changes to society
- Degrowth is an element within the broader struggle of ecosocialism
- The right to repair movement is an example of neo-Luddism
- Structurally decentralized technologies do not guarantee decentralized power
- Books I've finished but have no claims
- Most of the innovation on which Silicon Valley depends comes from government-funded research
- Spare parts for repair should be easily accessible
- All you need is links
- Social and environmental issues are interconnected and inseparable
- The government should invest in the NHS, not privatise it
- Food is a human right, not a commodity
- gift economies build community
- Free software enacts 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'
- Reality is identical with divinity
- Covid antiviral drugs significantly reduce the chances of hospitalisation and death
- We need vaccine equity
- Social change has never come without violence
- The Public Order Act already makes peaceful protest harder than in almost every other democracy
- We should phase out intellectual property
- The EU has no homegrown Big Tech companies of its own
- Britain's early handling of the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst public health failures in UK history
- Cutting the Covid isolation period to five days is foolhardy and dangerous
- Democracy functions best at the level of the city
- Any society in which people must rely on money and markets for the essentials of life is not a communist society
- The information necessary for repair should be easily accessible
- Keir Starmer is a bit dull
- There is no capitalism without colonialism
- Nonprofits should (almost) never write their own software
- Free software is a gift economy
- Planning to get Omicron in order to gain some immunity or get it over with is a terrible idea
- State socialism is good for the environment
- The policing bill is an attack on some of the most basic democratic rights of citizens
- For-profit healthcare systems are a piece-of-shit
- Cuba is world-leading in agroecology
- The menace of Trumpism is darker now than it ever was before
- Democracy is in retreat worldwide
- Capitalism is the root cause of social inequity
- Digital technologies are an important part of movement infrastructure
- More Covid variants are inevitable
- Markets don't give you what you need, they give you what you can afford
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- We should socialise the platforms
- Self-governance is a mode of resistance
- Energy price freezes are a direct result of campaigning like Don't Pay UK
- AI is fuelling a data centre boom
- Vaccinations and acquired immunity mean that there is no longer much risk of becoming severely unwell from Covid
- To be a 21st century socialist is to be an ecosocialist
- The built environment reinforces cultural messages
- There will be a fresh wave of Omicron cases in the early summer
- The free software movement is an example of neo-Luddism
- revolution is a necessary precondition for a transition from capitalism to socialism
- There is a latent fascist waiting to emerge in all humans
- Households across the UK will see rising prices and stalling wages in 2022
- Capitalism is a complex adaptive system
- Cuba is a good model of a green society
- Governing complex economies and societies by consent is hard
- The commons enables people to foster togetherness without compulsion
- Covid-19 will not just disappear
- We should have public ownership of water
- The policing bill is about state control
- Expanding national parks and protected areas will not be enough to halt the destruction of nature
- 1.3 million people, or 2% of the population, are estimated to be living with long Covid
- Net zero is part of a global imperialist climate policy
- ICT is a fundamental part of modern society
- We should socialise ICT infrastructure
- The next UK election will be decided in the north of England
- Britain is better off without Bristol's monument to Colston
- The policing bill will undermine the right to protest at a critical moment in the fight to avoid climate breakdown
- Modern information technology is one of the main conditions for socialist revolution
- self-organising systems should be the terrain of the Left
- Solarpunk is about technologies that de-abstract human relationships with the material world
- The commons enables people to enact fairness without bureaucratic control
- Amazon exploits workers and is anti-union
- Boris Johnson is a liar
- Britain's history contains astonishing levels of greed and cruelty
- Communism requires the abolition of money and the market system
- We should have public ownership of energy
- Attempting to limit markets to just "non-essential" sectors is risky
- Democracies are inherently unstable and susceptible to ruin by aggressive, skilled demagogues
- There is no such thing as knowledge
- Humans are eusocial animals
- Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world
- The policing bill is an embrace of a new authoritarianism
- A commons is a politics of belonging
- The French Revolution has historical significance to revolutionary socialism today
- Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity
- New technologies are more likely to amplify the inequalities and the injustices of a society than to undo them
- Capitalism requires insecurity
- Capitalism is the cause of the climate crisis
- Widespread racial inequality is embedded in healthcare in England
- Governance is the extension of whiteness on a global scale
- Acknowledging historic injustices is part of building a more equal society today
- We do not have vaccine equity
- Data commons are digital ecosocialism
- Commoning represents a profound challenge to capitalism
- Well-connected
- Agroecology is an example of systems thinking
- Markets for goods and services are compatible with socialism
- Benefits need to increase
- Local communities are the primary organisms within human society
- The policing bill increases the risk of peaceful demonstrators being criminalised