The US has basically been some flavor of fascist since at least the end of the second world war.

I was trying to figure out how to say what you said so I'll just piggy back. I agree that moving from proprietary to foss is definitely one aspect of the "withering away of the state". Engels didn't explicitly write about software for obvious reasons but yeah lol.

I think, and this is probably preaching to the choir, but one thing that we can keep doing is just supporting foss and try to get more people to use and contribute. Regardless of if the revolution were to happen tomorrow, we've definitely seen a big uptick in open source being used over the last 20-30 years.

I've seen people bring up that Lemmy/Mast/kbin are open source and my thoughts is always "as it should be". We are living through what I think might be a software revolution as more people get fed up with data harvesting and proprietary services. Will this era last? Who knows but I hope it does.

Funny enough, Linux and foss were what actually started my radicalization to the left. Back when I was using Ubuntu 9.10 I just kept asking why this wasn't this the norm? I mean Linux growing pains baggage aside that is.

This sounds really good thanks! I got it pulled up in my phone and will grab an epub of it tonight for my e-reader.

From the wiki:

In the book Lafargue proposes the right to be lazy, in contrast to the right to work, which he deems bourgeois.

This definitely sounds like what I was wanting to explore. It's just been heavy on my mind and I was pretty hopeful someone had written about it.

I'm surprised I haven't heard of Lafargue before. Thanks for the rec.

Something that has been on my mind as I have been diving more into theory is what will happen to those that choose not to work "after the revolution."

I feel like at the time of Marx or Lenin, it was understood that manual labor war paramount to a productive society and the automation of the time made production more efficient with less manpower needed. But there was still this emphasis on how everyone will be a productive member of society in order to "earn their keep." The USSR, of course wasn't able to be 100% automated. So, I get that.

But we are in the early stages of an era of automation where there are going to be a lot less jobs needs that not everyone will be employed. But I also think that is a good thing. It's, imo, the obvious path our society needs to be striving for. Fewer people working, and less work needed due to fully or nearly fully automated systems of things like food or clothing. After all, we won't be striving for that infinite growth factor anymore.

The only thing I think I have seen that is close to an answer is that we will be working less so we will have more time to create. But that suggests that we will all still work but only, say 16 hours a week instead of 40-60. I think this definitely opens the opportunity for those that choose not to work, but do we call those people "parasites" and shun them? I don't think so. But I also don't know if this idea is fully realized in any text. At least not in any I've read yet.

Maybe this whole thing is just naturally lumped in with the old state "withering away"? Sorry for the sort of stream of thought comment btw.

I decided to suffer from work-related anxiety most of the weekend.

We took the kids to the local Pride festival and that was actually a lot of fun. Then I ordered a man purse that I hope will help me get more organized and keep my ctlutter-stress in check.

Oh and I finished the book I have been trying to get through so now I can jump back into theory.

Preach!

Baby vegan here. The potato chip industry can fuck right off with putting whey in my salt and vinegar chips. Why is it even there?

It is! And actually like half of the mod and blueprint content for the game is all in Chinese because I guess it's pretty big over there. There's even a channel on the discord for helping with translation errors.

Ah alright.

Also holy shit I read through some of those comments.

I'm currently reading Grace Can Lead Us Home by Kevin Nye. It's is about a housing-first approach to helping the unhoused(as opposed to the current mainstream systems). It's written by a Christian based on his experiences with working for the unhoused but I still think it's good literature regardless of your faith. It's been running fairly parallel with my experiences with helping the unhoused as well. I've since added it to my lefty lit I will recommend.

Up next I am gonna read either Killing Hope, Inventing Reality, or just read both. Then I want to get back to theory, which I am always taking suggestions on.

Is it just a formatting thing or is that just one long ass paragraph?

Thank you for your service.