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Easiest most concise argument that most people can get on board with: the ownership of capital and the owners of capitalism are not managing our economy well, and they are inefficient at growing our society. I accuse them of mismanagement (stolen form Jack London).
Also that house is an AI rendering, isn’t it? The windows are either weird as fuck or this is some new hell-style grown out of settler colonialism
I was literally thinking just now that this would be a good candidate house for that kind of analysis.
Well I really hate that lol
Kate (the author) is so hilarious tho
Nah that’s real home-grown American contractor “architecture”.
Goddddamnnnnnn
Maybe I should give Jack London a chance. Growing up I was turned off reading my dad’s Jack London books by the author’s name.
The Iron Heel is a very good book, only really running into problems when it just handwaves that a revolution ‘happens’. But the lead up and building of contradictions and revolutionary preparations are great!
On the need for / inevitability of revolution:
- We want collective ownership instead of ownership by capitalists
- That means we need to take their stuff and make it our stuff
- Do you think they will just hand over the keys? They should, but have they ever done that before?
Focusing on ownership is too easily misunderstood. It’s difficult to speak of a transfer of property rights when the concept of property itself is transformed. Otherwise this message is easily misconstrued by anticommunist rhetoric that communism is merely redistribution rather than a restructuring of production relations. The 2nd chapter of the manifesto also makes this point, that abolition of private property is a derived, not fundamental, principle.
Moving from private property, it might be tempting to reduce communism to abolition of wage labor. Yet in the modern super-imperial, financial era, much of the global value flow occurs through means other than direct exploitation of wage labor.
If not wage labor, maybe it’s simply commodities that have to be done away with? But commodities have existed for millennia, so has money. Capitalism clearly cannot be reduced to those either.
If communist revolution is reduced to a single phrase, in my opinion it has to be focused against capital, because capital is the social relation that allows the use of wealth to expand personal wealth and thereby entrench class society. Naturally some might ask, well what is this capital? And it will require some explaining. But it’s accurate at every level of analysis, from intro to advanced theory.
3-week project
Fucking hell. At least spend a fourth week planning a decent application instead of just chucking at least half a million $ in stone out front. Obviously taste isn’t the issue since it’s already an aesthetic monstrosity. Someone’s family must own a quarry 🙄
At least it’s good for way finding. Out on the pontoon with the other 10am drunks trying to remember which McMansion is yours; “ah it’s the one that looks like shit, has no vegetation, and is a bajillion degrees in the summer.”
Suck off me.
Why use both blocks and rocks!? That’s so fucking unnecessary and shit looking!! Choose a lane!!!
Just getting warmed up for another week of living the dream as a civil
I usually try to explain the concept of wage labour and the exploitation inherent in it. It works especially if the price of the product that the person creates is easily known by them or found out.
Or I will explain how having control of the workplace and therefore the economy in aggregate, means that when productivity increases we can make the choice societally to either have more stuff or work less for the same amount, instead of right now where the choice is made for us by capital.
I do get pretty mad when beach front properties limit access to bodies of water.
Even when there is some public access that’s always unesserely crowded on hot days when there is private access that is mostly unused or at least underutilized.
Groverhaus
Rock stackingFuck houses, we should all be living in apartment buildings with tons of communal space. People demand tons of room that they literally never use. Massive houses filled with nothing, bedrooms nobody ever sleeps in (because a guest might want to sleep in them), I mean seriously whats the point?
how often should a guest room be occupied before it meets your approval?
also a lot of guest rooms over time were probably bedrooms for kids that wouldn’t be conceived for a few years
i feel like its not too hard to have a dual purpose guest room/other thing you do often room if u are intentional w the space u live in (assuming 1 extra bedroom compared to ur living space)
How many years must a guest room exist, before it’s allowed to be free?
My guest room is called the couch
I keep returning to the idea that even a small fraction of our housing could hold everyone if we weren’t so materialistic.
The house in the OP is pretty clearly designed to evoke a sense of many separate houses, only it’s on one lot and probably has just 2 people living in it.
The boulders look easier to pick up and throw through the windows.
That house is disgusting, absolute trash
