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Mess around Marx

"In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion"
"What is being seen is not a distortion of so-called democracy as practiced for the last few decades in most countries but its inevitable outcome, especially when combined with two other factors: modern industrial or capitalist notions of development and progress that raise impossible-to-meet aspirations, and formal education and the media that dumb us down, making us willing, pliant subjects."
#democracy #fetishism
pressenza.com/2024/12/in-the-s

Pressenza · In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion. Is there a real alternative?Too many decades have been lost to the myth that liberal democracies will deliver. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has
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Estelle Platini

The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

"As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: contendingmodernities.nd.edu/t

Contending Modernities · The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities | Contending ModernitiesThe birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.
#taboo#fetishism#sacred
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Hamish Campbell

The #geekproblem highlights a recurring issue within tech-driven movements, the overemphasis on control and complexity at the expense of accessibility, community, and collective goals. This “problem” arises from the intersection of tendencies toward hierarchy, a blind reverence for technology as inherently powerful (#deathcult worship), and the unchecked growth of technical complexity over the last few decades. This diverges from the principles of #KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid).

Control as an Obsession is the invisible insecurity that blinds this path. The desire for control has deep roots, where order, precision, and predictability are prioritized above all else. In tech communities, this translates into over-engineering, with complex solutions that are difficult for non-technical people to engage with. Leading to exclusion and often to gatekeeping through jargon, obscure processes, and rigid technical hierarchies. This is tech #Fetishism, and leads to a belief in technology’s ability to solve any problem, with almost no understanding of the side lining social or political paths this come with.

This fixation, and resulting intolerance, leads to systems that might be technically impressive but fail to serve any broader community, producing another wave of #techshit that then needs work to compost
In this path, the #deathcult represents the blind worship of systems and ideologies that lead to direct harm to us.

The #KISS principal advocates for simplicity and accessibility, ensuring systems are intuitive and usable by the wider community groups that need them. The #geekproblem runs counter to this, by alienating the very communities tech projects are meant to serve and widening the gap between technical experts and everyday people, perpetuating inequality in access and understanding.

Taking the “problem” out of geek, we must rebalance priorities by shifting dev focus on people over technology. Build systems and networks that empower and include rather than control and exclude.
Embrace simplicity, with #4opens, prioritizing usability, transparency, and community feedback to make tools accessible. Actively challenge tech fetishism by pushing of technology as a tool, not an end in itself.

Solutions must address social and political dimensions by decentralize, this can be hard as all the code is in the end is about centralize authority in the hands of a few technical “elites”. But, the #geekproblem is not insurmountable, solving it simply requires a shift in mindset. By rejecting control-driven hierarchies and embracing collaborative simplicity, we build systems and networks that serve the people they’re meant to empower.

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-is-the-problem-with-our-geeks/

hamishcampbell.comgeekproblem – Hamish Campbell
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Estelle Platini

[A long thread ball 🧶]

#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.

Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': libcom.org/article/problem-wor @politicalscience

libcom.orgThe problem with work - Kathi WeeksThe introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries'.
#fetishism#manufacturingConsent#believe
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Mess around Marx

@junesim63
pretty example how #state #fetishism can lead to idiocy. This guy seriously wants the government finance the campaigning against its own climate policy (which of course is a prevention policy in the interest of the ruling class). It's baffling that even intelligent people still see the state as kind of a neutral actor representing the interests of the people.
Wake up: The state is already in charge and could enforce effective measures. Guess why it isn't doing so?

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

I will observe, but not comment further, on the ironic juxtaposition of #WalterBenjamin's name being right next to a private bank (any bank for that matter). That said, I was very happy to see #Benjamin's name several times while I had the good fortune to be in #Paris. Not only this street sign but in the #Museum of #Decorative #Arts, which had an exhibition about the birth of the #departmentstore, his words about #fetishism & the #flaneur were present.

#Flaneuse
#WalterBenjamin
#LeBonMarche

me pointing to street sign in Paris, Passage Walter Benjamin, while standing in front of Milleis Banque.
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