- 24 Jan 2014 15:35
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I'm not that familiar with Bookchin actually, but from what I understand he's coming at it from an angle that is radically environmentalist and distrustful of private property from a socialist perspective, whereas I'm not. We're possibly compatible, but I'll have to research this.
Karl Hess is an anarchist who advocated an early form of some of these things and was an "appropriate technology" enthusiast. Here we would probably still differ in our explicit positions, if not combatively.
How I came to my position was by modulating things I had previously believed into a new coherent whole without just throwing the baby out with the bathwater each time I found out something was a little wrong with a 100% pure application of the particular philosophy I was looking at.
My political philosophy is essential libertarian/ancap ethical standing points, with the details modified on property through the distributist and subsidiarity principles of the... Catholic Church (ugh), through history and class analysis by... Marxism (ugh), economic theory with Keynesian economics, and technological applicability to the problem by observation and futurist arguments, as well as some of the arguments of the appropriate technology folks.
I've pretty much tunneled through the political spectrum into another dimension by this point. As far as I'm aware, technological distributism is something I named even if I someone else thought of something similar. Thinking about principles that emerged from Catholic teaching and then applying that to a technological paradigm where it could actually be workable is not the kind of synthesis that just pops into your head unless you've been through a very specific political journey.
A society without toil. A society of robotic property.
Matt24 wrote:Technology, I have a question. Which thinkers theorized these ideas of technological distributism? Could it have been Murray Bookchin? I've been reading more information about Anarchism and I found out that Bookchin expressed similar ideas to the ones we've been discussing in his book "Post-Scarcity Anarchism".
Was he the first one to propose this anarchist system? Do others advocate his ideas?
I'm not that familiar with Bookchin actually, but from what I understand he's coming at it from an angle that is radically environmentalist and distrustful of private property from a socialist perspective, whereas I'm not. We're possibly compatible, but I'll have to research this.
Karl Hess is an anarchist who advocated an early form of some of these things and was an "appropriate technology" enthusiast. Here we would probably still differ in our explicit positions, if not combatively.
How I came to my position was by modulating things I had previously believed into a new coherent whole without just throwing the baby out with the bathwater each time I found out something was a little wrong with a 100% pure application of the particular philosophy I was looking at.
My political philosophy is essential libertarian/ancap ethical standing points, with the details modified on property through the distributist and subsidiarity principles of the... Catholic Church (ugh), through history and class analysis by... Marxism (ugh), economic theory with Keynesian economics, and technological applicability to the problem by observation and futurist arguments, as well as some of the arguments of the appropriate technology folks.
I've pretty much tunneled through the political spectrum into another dimension by this point. As far as I'm aware, technological distributism is something I named even if I someone else thought of something similar. Thinking about principles that emerged from Catholic teaching and then applying that to a technological paradigm where it could actually be workable is not the kind of synthesis that just pops into your head unless you've been through a very specific political journey.
A society without toil. A society of robotic property.