{"id":1762,"date":"2019-05-16T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2021-07-05T17:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T17:40:03","slug":"socialism-or-primitivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/16\/socialism-or-primitivism\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialism or Primitivism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nSocialism, as understood by Karl Marx, is the organization of industrial production for the benefit of all.  And a book like that of Peter Joseph, <i> The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression<\/i>, 2017, is fundamentally making the claim that we already have the industrial capacity and technological capability for a free maintenance of the whole world. What is needed is a new organization of these productive forces.\n<p>\nI agree, but how are we to get there?\n<p>\nThe governments and economy are in the hands of capitalistic corporate oligarchs who are not interested in moving towards this or any other utopia. \n<p>\nThe other consideration is that a great portion of the world is presently living off subsistence farming, and the incessant wars and impending ecological collapse may force us to devolve to a primitive subsistence mode of survival, and the best advice is to prepare for an eventual collapse (as, for example, in the Middle East, parts of Africa, etc.), and to learn basic survival skills:\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zc6iTHRMvz4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialism, as understood by Karl Marx, is the organization of industrial production for the benefit of all. And a book like that of Peter Joseph, The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression, 2017, is fundamentally making the claim that we already have the industrial capacity and technological capability for a free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/16\/socialism-or-primitivism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Socialism or Primitivism?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predictions","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}