Wow! This interview between @agreenberg and @Mer__edith is gold. On #Signal, #SurveillanceTech, the role of #NonProfit|s and #capital. And #AI and drones. And the business model of #discrimination by AI.

One of the many memorable statements:
«The short answer here is that AI is a product of the mass surveillance business model in its current form. It is not a separate technological phenomenon.»
#MustRead #LongRead
https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

The Yin unicorn & Yang unicorn always went dialectical. Yin is not Yang. Yin is the opposite of Yang. Yang is not Yin. Yang is the opposite of Yin. But they can not be distinct from each other, they flow into each other. They are of the same kind. Together they become something new, s.th. greater.

When Capital faced the #Hegel.ian dialectics, they were so shocked, that since then not only #Marx had by all means to be denied. Also the still capitalist Hegel were rejected a place in Valhalla. ( https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhalla )

Why? Because #Capital assumes us to be the contrary to each other. As logical exclusions we hate each other and, the foremost important characteristics: we compete each other to death.

This peaked in the mass extermination of white men life on the battlefields of 1918 and 1945. The true catastrophe for capital was not the #holocaust, but that the whites race colonial order needed a redesign to prevent further world wars. In face of nuclear extermination a necessity.

The imperial order was replaced by a hegonomial hierarchy with the #US by all white western countries accepted head of the white world. That's why the US army has still 5 time the military than the 2nd place country.

But the united white world became rich and weak. Unfortunately, an upcoming multipolar world risks in this logic another final world war. Cause we didn't overcome the capital logic, deeply fabricated into each nation, yet.

"Das Schweigen vieler Wirtschaftsbosse zum Thema Abgrenzung von der AfD ist ohrenbetäubend". Kommentar von Laura Eßlinger (#Capital) zu Zeichen gegen Rechts: Die Wirtschaft muss sich positionieren #deutschlandfunk #dlf
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kommentar-zu-zeichen-gegen-rechts-die-wirtschaft-muss-sich-positionieren-dlf-5c082ccc-100.html

My dumb believe

(Derived from a previous response)

If you read #Marx #Kapital carefully, in particular with a math background and the #Grundrisse as support, you'll see that after a certain peak of innovation (automatization) the value behind commodities will collapse. Thus also the value of the most general commodity: #Money.

Unfortunately this is denied by those who call themselves #Marxists and thus liberals and further right can piss on it too. Even though #MichaelHeinrich gets the direction he all makes it wrong throughout.

Without money states cannot exist. When #Russia attacks #Ukraine, #Israel kills Kids or #US sends a carrier group to bomb defenseless people and armies, all this has one in common: They fight something strong but actually don't know what to fight.

They all feel the deterioration of statehood, but can neither quantify it nor locate the origins. But a state is composed in a way, that it has to survive.

Marx says, the capital is processing behind the back of the worker. This is a quick explanation where modern #antisemitism comes from. The personification of the decay of our salary in the person of an interest grabbing Jew.

The same way states do personification. Those who risks the states existence, are those who don't pay taxes, #ThePoor. It also correlates with the old enlightened bourgeoise believe, that being poor is caused by genetics and only extermination of the 'degenerates' could solve this issue. (or abstinence )

In fact, behind all this is nothing but a further failing #capital accumulation. This is the unfortunate fact that nobody even wants to listen to. People are way more enthusiastic about depicting a group of evil and exterminate them.

Unfortunately.

In 2006 there was a documentary about the massive buildup of police force throughout #EuropeanUnion. I say this bc. it was before the financial crisis.  A French professor concluded: In the future it might be, that some people might not be satisfiable by the state anymore. Those will fall off our society (!)

But those are not voluntarily dying away. Hence #Hamas and Co.

C'est ça.

This way of thinking is called #Wertkritik or #Wertabspaltungskritik

#Review to #KoheiSaito 'Natur gegen Kapital', 'Nature against #Capital':

I took the moment to read the book fast without remarks and underlining. So the first nice thing, that is absolutely possible. Most evaluations are practical, like historical explanations about the development of modern #agriculture in relation to Marx personal development and the difference between the first #Kapital editions.

Saito starts with #Marx, Engels and #Feuerbach. This part can be understood even though you know few about how crucial Feuerbach was to Marx and what exactly this new german ideology is. Why Feuerbach was crucial, and why Marx finally rejected Feuerbach will be explained to you.

In the following part Saito talks about Entfremdung (alianation) introduces this term in meaning represented by 'Das Kapital', but also Feuerbach and Hegel, and goes ahead with the Japanese school of thought and their particular different interpretation of abstract work, that is according them, found in reality (not just by quanta in time) and has existed before the start of capitalism. This brings you some headakes to keep on understanding some few following chapters, but all in all conclusive.

Even though this interpretation is diametrically to those of #RobertKurz and #MichaelHeinrichs, it come to plenty of similar conclusions and claims to follow the same idea of Heinrichs science of value.

The most interesting part of Saito starts, when he starts following Marx observation towards, at that time contemporary, research of agriculture and how this changed Marx entire cause from an optimist person thinking in linear progress, to someone pessimistic, and later on into an pessimistic optimism, when Marx finally learned about the impact of human made climate change.

And yes, you heard right. A botanic called #Fraas wrote about how Forrest disappearance finally leads to the disappearance of Farming, although trees were remove to make space for farming. His argument was, that the impacting climate in this regions lead to desertification. We talk about mid 19th century science, that caught Marx attention.

Saito is able to increase the wow effect, so you keep on reading. In total a good book, nice to read and some incredible messages inside to a generation, that for some not obvious reasons wants to survive #ClimateChange.

I might later post some of these messages, but would suggest you reading the book instead.

"This has led to the introduction of the misleading term “#investor” that nowadays masquerades as an occupation."

Distinguishing incomes from #capital and #labor:

https://open.substack.com/pub/branko2f7/p/distinguishing-incomes-from-capital