These failures of both Marxisms are of course interesting to consider with respect to your earlier post and comment about "collegization" and administrative power. Managerial power, and hence bureaucratization and alienation, seem to relate to both developments. Illich will not likely ever be popular in academia nor in an indefinite dictatorship of the "proletariat", which is to say, an "eastern" communist state. The alternative to alienation is community. Only a human community can domesticate capital.
I'm glad you noticed that -- socialist planned economies are driven by the creation and application of policies by experts, rather than the inherent bottom up intelligence of the people themselves. This is why, I suspect, the CCP continues to lean into data, surveillance, and artificial intelligence, because they are still animated by the same belief which underwrote the Great Leap Forward -- with enough data we can make the economy transparent to itself and fully manipulable. In the coming years, we're going to see the possibility of a truly planned economy finally appear through the power of data and artificial intelligence, and then we'll be able to see what results such an experiment yields. Will it be worse than Mao's famines? I really don't know what to expect.
Hear hear. And a plug for Daniel Tutt. That trading group should be good
These failures of both Marxisms are of course interesting to consider with respect to your earlier post and comment about "collegization" and administrative power. Managerial power, and hence bureaucratization and alienation, seem to relate to both developments. Illich will not likely ever be popular in academia nor in an indefinite dictatorship of the "proletariat", which is to say, an "eastern" communist state. The alternative to alienation is community. Only a human community can domesticate capital.
I'm glad you noticed that -- socialist planned economies are driven by the creation and application of policies by experts, rather than the inherent bottom up intelligence of the people themselves. This is why, I suspect, the CCP continues to lean into data, surveillance, and artificial intelligence, because they are still animated by the same belief which underwrote the Great Leap Forward -- with enough data we can make the economy transparent to itself and fully manipulable. In the coming years, we're going to see the possibility of a truly planned economy finally appear through the power of data and artificial intelligence, and then we'll be able to see what results such an experiment yields. Will it be worse than Mao's famines? I really don't know what to expect.