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en able to lay out for me the steps in this theorem empirically of course we find that it has a strong immanent tendency to expand but if my distinction holds water that s not the same thing and then of course we also find it has a strong immanent tendency to destroy accumulated capital war being the locus classicus as far as i can see there s no obvious reason why capital couldn t get along just fine even under some fairly strong legal or regulatory or tax constraints this should not be misread as a defense case for capital by the way i m as eager as the next comrade to see the end of it as far as i can tell the problem is really political not technical or essential with capital in the driver s seat who s in a position to impose such constraints or motivated to do so corollary if someone were in a position to impose those constraints what would be the point of keeping the capitalists around posted in uncategorized 1 reply cop love posted on december 31 2022 by michael j smith 155 to me the sight of a cop in his brutish ugly uniform and his panoply of weapons is purely bad the badness is a composite of fear i really don t want to attract his attention and hate why is he there at all and why so heavily armed and i wish somebody would take him out or at least pin him down under covering fire and make him cry for his mother and wet his cop pants others feel otherwise obviously i wish i understood them better to me the menacing cop looks like a menace i mean a menace t o me to the cop fans the cop also looks like a menace but to somebody else whom they fear and loathe who might that be the obvious answer is black people and there s no question that in the us at least this is a big part of the picture but then there are black cop fans too and i think that race though it can never be overlooked isn t the whole story the cop is plainly an object of fear so to stan him implies that there s someone real or illusory whom we fear worse and against whom this horrid talus might be turned is that someone perhaps some part of ourselves is the cop the heavily armed external superego keeping our own unruly id in line the personification of a punitive social order whose rules regs we have to obey and are expected to love the cop can be for us or against us depending on which side of us turns up better for than against considering his heavy armament better to love him than hate him identify with him or he might gun you down but that leaves some id left over and so there s another other too namely all those people out there black people or for boogie black people cousin pookie unruly people undeserving people those who didn t do their homework or got bad sats or made bad choices we who have more or less made it under the rules have implicitly constructed these others onto whom we have projected our own anarchic id the thing that makes the cop dangerous to us they become the externalized internal enemy go get em officer once you ve gunned them down no way that id will rebound back onto respectable us and of course no way will we have to worry about you posted in uncategorized 155 replies the first church of christ communist posted on december 26 2022 by michael j smith 5 m smith senior warden rectorship currently vacant https jacobin com 2022 12 christmas marxism christianity alasdair macintyre jesus slightly surprising piece in jacobin this is a topic that has always interested me as a high church liturgically and theologically conservative episcopalian commie in fact my current tragedy is that my old mother church has become too liberal for me but has never been left wing enough i personally have never found any contradiction here i m not an especially good communist or an especially good christian but to the extent that i m either they ve never seemed to pull me in different directions he hath put down the mighty from their seat the remarkable lady sings and hath exalted the humble and meek sounds pretty commie to me jacobin s writer seems to be asking why shouldn t a commie be a christian well there are reasons start with the fact that the great sages were atheists marx engels lenin and so on so how can one be an admirer and follower of theirs and yet not an atheist one obvious answer is that our admiration for marx et al is not fideistic it s well empirical on matters of political economy and politics and history they seem to have got a lot of stuff right when they ascend to metaphysics they run the usual risk of hypoxia so these great men are not moses charged with tablets from sinai but fellow enquirers with us like newton or darwin they re not a package deal this is not meant to endorse a cherry picking eclecticism but to suggest that every reading however respectful of the greats marxist or not is also an interlocution there s another perhaps more serious obstacle the default position for self respecting college educated people in north america and western europe these days is to be an atheist the alternative is more or less an unthinkable gaucherie one has to be very contrarian to take it up i dare say that most marxists in my world were atheists long before they were marxists and why should an atheist ever change his mind absent some extraordinary road to damascus thing atheism is a perfectly respectable and consistent position after all and it s really implicit in modernity so i would turn mr jacobin s question around and ask rather why shouldn t a christian be a commie i think i could convert christians to communism more readily than most communists to christianity because christianity is basically a tough sell as st paul observed some years ago but communism is just good common sense for religious people not only christians but religious people in general there s the baggage of course that commies are supposed to be atheists i think this is easily disposed of in politics as in religion start with the praxis and the theory will over time make itself clear believers can easily and do easily make common cause with non believers on some agreed upon project and a lot of believers started coming to church with mental reservations consider the famous joke about episcopalians crossing their fingers when it s time to say the creed so they re used to this and they have the mental apparatus to dip their toes into communism except for the atheist part some of them will find the water fine lemma the atheist commies mustn t insist on atheism as a requirement and indeed i can t think of any way that marxism or leninism requires atheism qua axiom falls to the ground without it the substantive ideological obstacles to communism for religious people aren t often specifically religious ones in fact they re usually irreligious ones and lie in commonplace secular ideological notions about the nature of the state liberal representative democracy due process rule of law tyranny of the majority all that mythology or human nature sociobiology and all its hellspawn in the us at least the curious sociological fact is that a lot of the people that us commies would like to recruit in fact the social base we re meant to depend on are self identified christians the atheists are all pmc and therefore hardened liberals not quite beyond communist redemption perhaps but the parable of the camel and the needle s eye mutatis mutandis does come to mind in fact if 10 of christians could be brought round to communism that would be at least numerically a bigger deal than 10 of commies becoming christian because there are a lot of christians and very few commies i m sorry to say i wish there were many many more posted in uncategorized 5 replies okay i m a believer now posted on december 20 2022 by michael j smith reply so by pure chance i picked up a copy of the deficit myth by stephanie kelton i suppose this is the bible of modern monetary theory mmt i m totally convinced although various puddleglums sometimes quartered in surprising corners of the swamp assure me that it s snake oil i recommend the book to those who have heard the brouhaha about this topic go to the source don t just believe what the doomsters tell you you may or may not be convinced but the book is lucid and plain spoken and it disposes briskly of most of the canards on this topic let s begin with the limitations kelton acknowledges that the limit of sovereign money printing is unacceptable levels of inflation that is mmt at least kelton s version doesn t claim that greenbacks can roll off the press ad infinitum her claim rather is that deficits as such don t create unacceptable inflation ipso facto and that much depends on the state of the economy in general and more specifically on where the deficit spending goes she notes accurately that even official economics allows as how some degree of inflation is ok 2 seems to be the canonical benchmark she s very good and eloquent on how central banks worry a lot about how bad inflation might happen and dial up unemployment just in case even when bad inflation is not happening one has to wonder whether there s some other agenda here she s brilliant on the false analogy of household finance clearly a sovereign who can print money is not in the same position as a household that can t yet precisely this false analogy absolutely dominates ordinary political discourse balance the budget living beyond our means all that crap i wonder whether as in the populist days the question doesn t come down to hard money beloved by creditors versus easy money beloved by everybody else two percent inflation is ok grudgingly for the creditors at the cost of high unemployment not so popular with everybody else thought experiment what would monetary and fiscal policy look like if nobody cared much about creditors apart from giving them a basis point over inflation or two what are they going to do with their money except invest or lend it on whatever terms they can negotiate do the scrooge mcduck thing convert it to specie and roll around in it bless em if so if they sequester their assets thesaurization is the term historians use and don t spend them that gives even more scope for non inflationary public expenditure hopefully directed to more constructive ends than the vain consumption of the frivolous rich posted in uncategorized leave a reply ex ponto posted on december 18 2022 by michael j smith reply of course dear naso you d have rather not been sent to pontus liked your metro life especially your amazing metro wife friends fans it really sucks to be forgot and hence your whingeing letters stir the pot perhaps amid the never ending strife in court and forum there among those rife factions and interests you might have a shot but i suspect that pontus ain t so bad i bet you ve found who serves the best street food down by the harbor who can be too sad with such grilled octopus i know you dude metamorphosis that s your thing my lad pontus a new adventure be it ne er so crude posted in uncategorized leave a reply get me rewrite posted on december 17 2022 by michael j smith reply the concept of journalist needs some examination these are people who used to be called reporters a term which has the merit of describing what they actually do or are supposed to do anyway namely find stuff out and report it but as usual we get title inflation so something called journalism is invented and as usual it becomes credentiallized and professionalized columbia university the octopus as we neighbors call it has a school of journalism and no doubt other diploma mills have one too now terms ending in ism generally denote religions buddhism or ideologies communism or practices onanism or medical conditions daltonism which of these is journalism somebody who worships journals or believes in journals or does journalling or suffers from it for that matter what s journalling i mean if it s not just reporting there s a good deal of argument about who s a journalist and who isn t assange is or isn t depending on who you ask ditto greenwald and taibbi everybody seems to agree that ole marse tom friedman is a journalist though and everybody agrees that woodward and bernstein were the patron saints of the guild by contrast it s a bit easier to know who s a reporter does he report things which brings us to the question why is it important to know who s a journalist and who isn t are journalists allowed to do things others aren t the way people with a driver s license can legally drive a car and people without can t are journalists subject to some hippocratic code if so it s hard to know what its rules are assange for example was attacked for not selecting and redacting material and taibbi is being attacked for the opposite woodward and bernstein had sources they wouldn t disclose and this is thought to be praiseworthy or at least ok though it seems a bit sketchy to me but taibbi who has been quite open about how he got the stuff he s reporting is excoriated for depending on a known source so it would appear that a journalist is a reporter you like and a non journalist is a reporter you don t posted in uncategorized leave a reply que diable faites vous dans cette galere posted on december 15 2022 by michael j smith reply tech worker layoffs in silicon valley jacobin sounds the alarm i m a tech worker myself at least when i can find work but i applaud this development the layoffs jacobin seems to be whingeing about here are all in the frothy and wildly overstaffed vc funded sector with its epicentre in san francisco these people are long overdue for a big takedown and if it s finally happening well bring it on the sort of jumped up junior poindexters who work for the likes of twitter and meta are a far cry from the umble drudges like myself who do galley slave programming in the bowels of bank of america vel sim which is just what most of us tech workers do at the moment anyway hiring is pretty robust for these galleys and the rates aren t bad though they don t compare with lawyers or psychoanalysts still you can make an ok living at it silicon valley is another matter altogether the speculative overvaluation and insane burn rates of the companies themselves leads to a speculative overvaluation of rock star programmers both in the market and in their own poorly socialized minds i ve met good programmers and bad ones but i ve never met a rock star and frankly i don t think there are any it s a very mundane job writing good code is mostly a matter of putting in the time and of course giving a shit so if all these silicon valley boy bands get disbanded i won t shed a tear even though the former rock stars will be competing with me for a place on the lowly rowing bench posted in uncategorized leave a reply post navigation older posts search recent posts moving day which side are you on quomodo sedet sola alma mater was will das kapital cop love recent comments charlesgef on the fire next time charlesgef on hate speech charlesgef on the paper mill charlesgef on real 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