Sebastian Flores
@sebas
Sebastian Flores
f the Left wants to stop narrating defeat and start shaping power, it must abandon the fantasy that elections alone can confront firms that control energy, data, computation, and labor at planetary scale.
Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
Fight Oligarchy by Senator Bernie Sanders: 9798217089161 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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claims to be apolitical reflect not a cooperative principle but a political choice, since there is no such thing as being apolitical: for James Baldwin, refusal is a privilege; for Hannah Arendt, withdrawal abandons responsibility; and for Antonio Gramsci, indifference consolidates hegemony.
Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
Against Racism
Against Racism
Social movements and unions can use cooperatives to build the economic power needed to advance their struggles, distributing benefits in the present while prefiguring socialist enterprises. In this sense, cooperatives can function as what Gramsci saw in the factory councils of the 1920s: worker-owned and worker-governed forms of a socialist... See more
Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
We no longer live in an industrial economy. What was easily defined as a worker back then is harder to define today, because much of our 'work’ is done for free by the users of these platforms. the work is data creation and therefore provide value and utility to the platforms they use. So first we need to tell people that what they are doing is indeed work, and once they see this, they will feel they need to be compensated for this work. Then we can organize ‘workers’ in today’s modern networked economy.