stabby_cicada

stabby_cicada , 9 months ago

Every single state created after a revolution by a socialist or communist Party has resulted in a continuation of capitalism.

This is absolutely correct.

And every single stateless society created after a revolution has been crushed by state violence.

So what options are there?

Work within a capitalist state to mitigate its worst excesses (the European democratic socialist model)?

Work towards a socialist state that practices state capitalism as a transition stage to full communism, and hope your socialist state won't become a self-perpetuating dictatorship clinging to state power for its own sake?

Build a stateless society within a "friendly" state and hope that state's leaders will treat it kindly?

stabby_cicada , 9 months ago

If you want to judge whether energy consumption is a waste, you have to consider the value of what's consuming that energy.

Keeping the internet running? A global storehouse of humanity's collective knowledge available to almost everyone around the world for free? The ability to communicate in real time with your family on the other side of the world, or coordinate protests in every major city in your country, or host a live meeting that would have required fifty people to fly cross country into a single zoom room?

Yeah, data farms could become more efficient and sustainable, as could we all. But I don't begrudge the power they spend one bit. 2% of global energy consumption is low for the benefit.

Compare to Bitcoin, which accounts for 0.5% of global energy consumption, and benefits no one and nothing...