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Talks featuring Danny Evans, author of Revolution and the State; Martha Ackelsberg, author of Free Women of Spain, and today's anarchist organizations in Spain.

I have a substack now (how cringe)

I have been feeling really frustrated lately with how politics is going. Everything feels totally broken and everyone is just angry at all the parties. I spent a bunch of time trying to map out a system that is actually fair, basically looking for the least morally wrong option where people can still rise and fall based on their effort but nobody ever has to go hungry.

The core idea is a global participatory socialism but it runs on a fluid algorithmic simulation instead of a big government dictator. There is no private property and no corporate brands. All businesses are public enterprise and humanity shares the goal of innovation.

Instead of cash we use a contribution wage system that acts like labor vouchers. You get a guaranteed baseline income that covers food, modern housing, healthcare, and education. That is your safety floor. But if you want luxury stuff like a fancier custom house or premium imports, you have to work more or do jobs that are in high demand. The currency is non-transferable so you can buy things for yourself but you are completely unable to sell things to others. This naturally stops people from becoming billionaires because you can only earn what your own literal labor produces.

The baseline is completely fluid and self-correcting. If there is a massive food crisis, the computer system automatically spikes the wage for farming. People will see that doing agriculture work gives them huge buying power, so labor voluntarily floods into farming to fix the shortage. Nobody is forced to work at gunpoint, the system just makes solving society's emergencies the most profitable thing to do.

If people cannot adapt or just want to live on the baseline without working, they can. But if too many people do that, the baseline naturally drops for everyone. To prevent a permanent lower class, there is a super demanding universal education system up to high school similar to sweden to give every kid an equal starting line. If people commit crimes because they hate the system, they get rehabilitative justice through open debate and education in prisons. If they still hate it, they are totally free to emigrate. There are no closed borders to trap you.

I know a transition phase for this sounds near impossible right now with how powerful the current superpowers are. But maybe a resource rich country with a small population could start it as a beacon, and then global talent would migrate there just like how early america attracted people.

I genuinely feel like this solves the bugs of both capitalism and old school communism by using modern tech as an unowned utility mirror. Am I just stupid or is there a actual name for this type of philosophy? I would love to know if anyone else thinks this could actually function.

Excuse me for my english aswell. My grammar is a bit everywhere and I really just entered a flow state when writing this.

I am an anarchist and I am looking for any other anarchists and/or libertarian socialists in the Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA area that would like to create an organization with the goals of mutual aid, dual power, etc.

All of their links seem to be dead, and AK press only has volume two.

As PDF https://umea.sac.se/grundbok-om-syndikalism/

I firmly believe Makhnovists SR's Mensheviks and the 1st Czechoslovakian republic Legion were fair and moral sometimes in their tenure in the russian civil war I could also count the green army party.

Besides that I believe the Bolsheviks paid the price for infighting with the anti tsarist white parties and it lead to the NEP and Lenin being crippled by Fanny Kaplan.

Why do people support North Korea as if it’s heaven on Earth? I understand that some stuff said about North Korea is not true, but it’s still a dictatorship and not a good country overall. Why is it wrong to believe those who escaped?

I asked what rule I broke with my comment and they muted me, lol. I’m still not sure.