Already do. IMF in the 70s and FDI has been preferred to developing domestic companies since thatcher.

Of course, the IMF’s job was to break the labour party and FDI means investment from the US and vain attempts to reclaim some petrodollars.

That’s the kind of thing I’m thinking of, yeah.

I guess the real question is whether or not the privileges I’m referring to will be absorbed by the US to shore up its position (America first) or if they’ll suffer the same thing (eg decline).

Insulate houses to conserve resources for the revolution and increase the comfort of my comrades by providing them with warm homes.

Edit: other idea:

• Localised horticulture to provide a wide variety of locally produced produce. Today it is known as market gardening: in the future, social gardening.

That seems pretty hopeful. What’s to stop unions doing what they did in lots of western countries and reaching an accommodation with capital? Or simply falling short of actually revolting

Questions, I have many!

• Have you considered building it as a Lemmy client rather than a standalone forum?

See: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/client_development/custom_frontend.html

In terms of what would be different, UX could focus on eg, surfacing longer comments first, presenting each comment as a thread within a category (which would be a post on Lemmy rather than a community). It could even be a “sticky” forum UX pointed at a single post or set of posts, for instance. That might promote the kind of long running discussions you’re looking for.

• What features will differentiate it from eg, Discourse? Or other existing forum software?

• Do you have any plans for helping people make and plan groups?

Longer discussions are, I’d posit, more a result of culture than interface. The cultural enablers here would be things like groups with meetings that offer interaction centred around ML topics. It seems reasonable to assume that better tools for this might help with that change.

Just thoughts - it is awesome that you’re motivated enough to do this!

Right, I guess. I suppose I’m just having trouble connecting the dots - seeing how the quantitative becomes qualitative. Time will tell and all that.

Going back to your earlier comment about (effectively) redistribution, it’d be neat to see a federation of coops who distribute some of their surplus/profits to a foundation or something along those lines. Something to act as a petit-vanguard, developing communist projects that can raise class consciousness and so on. Hard to do though.

What I’d like to know is about ideas that can work on a small scale, outside of AES, and preferably as an exercise in party building. Worker cooperatives don’t seem sufficiently combative (as far as I can see) to cause change. Unions are too battered. But what else could work?

This is a good one: https://web.archive.org/web/20220308224623/https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii100/articles/perry-anderson-the-heirs-of-gramsci

If you’re interested in more afterwards, I’d suggest going to newleftreview.org, finding his other articles, and finding them on archive.org. It is a neat paywall bypass for lots of publications.

See my other answer - tl;dr veteran of CPGB, historian and critic. Very influential on the British left in general.

I’ve only read his articles in the London Review of Books and the New Left Review. In the latter he reviews people like Gramsci and those that follow after him, but it is paywalled. He has also reviewed books like Luk van de Midelaar’s Passage to Europe, generally with an identifiably marxist perspective. He’s very influential on the british left and was one of the old CPGB group of historians, alongside people like Eric Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson.

I’m offline this weekend but could find and share some articles when I’m back if you’re interested.

Yep, based. Anti-nato, anti-imperialist (including French neocolonialism in Africa AIUI), even anti-EU (which he’s right in saying is deeply neolib). Lots of pro-worker policies. Not French but I vaguely follow this guy’s progress.

Another fracture in the social media landscape. Good. Also, hi comrades.