[NetBehaviour] Capitalism without its values, governance and pathologies

[Przemyslaw Sanecki]

>
> > Hi everybody,
>
> Hi!
>
> > from /#ACCELERATE (2013,Williams+Srnicek):
> >
> > /
> >
> >     03.1 (...) an accelerationist politics seeks to preserve the gains
> >     of late capitalism while going further than its value system,
> >     governance structures, and mass pathologies will allow.
> >
> >
> > Although, this fragment casts some light on it:
> >
> >     03.9 (...) the Left must take advantages of every technological and
> >     scientific advance made possible by capitalist society. (...) social
> >     network analysis, agent-based modelling, big data analytics, and
> >     non-equilibrium economic models (...). The accelarationist Left must
> >     become literate in  [technical] fields.
> >
>
> They also  quote Lenin:
>
> "Socialism is inconceivable without large-scale capitalist engineering
> based on the latest discoveries of modern science. [...]"
>

Sorry, but I don't think that digging out words of some twenty century war
criminal and announcing them
with a tone of  novelty is a good prophecy for the future.
this top-down approach of planning everything is easy to swallow in
cafeterias
for those who see themselves as planners and need some ideological
nutriment in meantime.
It is somehow  very disappointing that the West still think that what was
fucked up by Slavs and some Asian nations will be
led to perfection with a help of their ingenious technology and a good will.



>
> and say that:
>
> "5. Accelerationists want to unleash latent productive forces. In this
> project, the material platform of neoliberalism does not need to be
> destroyed. It needs to be repurposed towards common ends. The existing
> infrastructure is not a capitalist stage to be smashed, but a
> springboard to launch towards post-capitalism."
>

No, it is an escapism from the only structuring force  that
 is stitched into living organism and has been keeping neoliberalism strong
and attractive for masses for long time but is a nightmare for socialism.
I mean a self-interest.

>
> > I hardly can see anything should be preserved and is intrinsically
> > capitalist gain. What are capitalist gains? I quite blind when comes
> > to acknowledge them.
>
> The gross scientific, infrastructural and technological production that
> has not been prevented under current-phase capitalism.
>
>

Yes, I agree, capitalism is a disaster not only for these fields, it's
sickness to survive for most.
 but the same will happen under government "repurposed towards common ends"



> All to be "repurposed towards common ends" rather than continuing to
> reproduce capitalism.
>
> I can easily see a socialist objection that these forms are the result
> of distorted social relations and that post-capitalist production would
> take very different forms without those distortions. But these are
> resources that could be used to *get* there.
>

I'm simply not able to imagine a society at such scale as it should be
nowadays that is controlled and planned by sage PhD holders.
no matter from which site of political spectrum.
 I afraid that is too early for any "there" but too late for "here". Let's
crash and observe what's next.

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