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Post-scarcity economy

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**Post-scarcity** is a
theoretical economy in which
most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed,
so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely…

futurists who speak of
"post-scarcity" suggest economies based on advances in automated manufacturing
technologies,[4] often
including the idea of self-replicating machines, the adoption of division of labour[8] which in
theory could produce nearly all goods in abundance, given adequate raw
materials and energy. More speculative forms of nanotechnology (such as molecular assemblers ornanofactories, which do not currently exist) raise the
possibility of devices that can automatically manufacture any specified goods
given the correct instructions and the necessary raw materials and energy,[9] and so many
nanotechnology enthusiasts have suggested it will usher in a post-scarcity
world.[10][11] In the more
near-term future, the increasing automation of physical labor using robots is often
discussed as means of creating a post-scarcity economy.[12][13] Increasingly
versatile forms of rapid prototyping machines,
and a hypothetical self-replicating version of such a machine known as aRepRap, have also been predicted to help create the abundance of
goods needed for a post-scarcity economy…

Richard Stallman,
the founder of the GNU project, has cited the eventual creation
of a post-scarcity society as one of his motivations:[21]

In the long run, making programs
free is a step toward the post-scarcity world, where nobody will have to work
very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to
activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten
hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot
repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a
living from programming.
Sir Walter Raleigh

1554-1618

Sir Walter Raleigh was more than a poet. He was a mariner and a lover of queen Elizabeth I. Hence, it is no surprise that he was decapitated, after a brief sojourn to the Tower.

In the poem The Lie, composed around 1592, he speaks of corruption and falsehood of his times.

**Other languages**:

Сэр Уолтер Рэли
News: Italy

1. 27/10/14 – забастовка в Италии под красными знаменами
2. 12/2/13 – University system and culture in general is going down. Cronyism, underfinancing. No opportunities.
3. 2010: violence in December 2010,  when there was a vote in Parliament about vote of confidence in the Italian prime-minister Berlusconi.  In November 2011, Berlusconi had to leave the post of prime-minister.
Shining Path

A Maoist revolutionary organization in Peru . Founded in 1960's. Leader was Abimael Guzman, until captured in 1992.

Guzman is a former philosophy professor.

Read "Interview with Chairman Guzman ", 1988.

I believe this interview shows him to have a stencil type of thought, he is a Stalinist, a Maoist to the extreme degreee. No wonder Peru continues to be ruled by capital.
А.И. Герцен

1812-1870

Герцен начинает свой рассказ "Былое и думы" из воспоминания о том, что он родился в год нашествия Наполеона на Москву. Поэтому, их семья вынуждена была бежать, вместе с кормилицей и ребенком.

Самое стоящее в творчестве Герцена сегодня: это рассказ о развитии революционных идей в России и некоторые пассажи из "Дилентантизм в науке", где затрагивается диалектика Гегеля.

Обзор: Ленин, "Памяти Герцена" , 1912 г.

"Дилентантизм в науке", 1842-3

"О развитии революционных идей в России", 1853

"Былое и думы", 1868 г.
Vladimir Tatlin

1885-1953

He is the author of "The Monument to the Third International", which was envisaged as a design to house the offices of the Communist International, 1919-1943. Original description is here .

   I believe that Frank Lloyd Wright borrowed the design for Guggenheim's Museum from Tatlin's tower.

Tatlin is one of the best examples where Architecture goes back to its origins, which are art and technology .

* Material on Tatlin
Notes on "Trotskyism in the Twenty-First Century" from League for the Fifth International

Trotskyism in the Twenty-First Century
League for Fifth International, 14/02/2014

The Fourth International’s degeneration and disintegration was distinct from the fate of its two immediate predecessors. It collapsed into centrism, not into social patriotism or reformism. This was because it never attained a mass character; it did not have the opportunity to play a decisive leadership role in major revolutionary struggles

"The root cause of this failure (of IV International) was programmatic. Already disoriented by the outcome of the Second World War, which did not conform to Trotsky's perspectives (which was what?), the leadership of the FI responded to the expansion of Stalinism and the formation of new degenerate workers' states by revising both the analysis of Stalinism and the revolutionary programme. Equating Stalinism with loyalty to Moscow, they concluded that, having broken from Moscow, Tito had become a centrist and that the bureaucratic overthrow of capitalist property relations had established a workers' state that needed reform, but not political revolution and was, in that sense, a healthy workers' state."

1) Tito's regime is a case of Stalinism. This shows that tendency towards Stalinism is not accidental, but a law-like progression of all socialist revolutions in XX century.

2) The root cause of failure of IV International was theoretical: orientation towards proletariat as revolutionary class, in the epoch when knowledge revolution (IT, nuclear energy, robotics, etc.) was already dawning.

"This accommodation to Tito's version of the programme of Socialism in One Country, which was endorsed by all the main leaders of the FI at its Third Congress, opened the way to full scale revision not only of the programme for political revolution but of the entire methodology of the Transitional Programme."

"The Third Congress of the Fourth International, in 1951, carried Pablo’s theses on Yugoslavia unopposed and thus collapsed into centrism. The 1953 split between the International Secretariat, IS, and the SWP (US) and its supporters, who referred to themselves as the International Committee, IC, did not result from disagreements over the programmatic revisions of 1951 but rather over the proposed tactic of “entrism sui generis” (a “unique form of entrism”) into the Stalinist parties. The split was unprincipled since it was undertaken in advance of the planned 1954 Congress at which the issues could have been presented to the highest body of the International."
Problem Stated

Marxist theory of state was formulated in "State and Revolution", 1917, by Lenin. The theory says that a state is:

1. a product of class contradictions within society;

2. Hence, the ruling class creates a group of armed men to impose its will on the other classes.

3. Along the armed bands are courts, jails, and various other "hard" and "soft" means of coercion, two of these being "religion" and "morality". "Education" is in essence indoctrination in the values of the ruling class.

4. The task of a revolutionary organization is to break down, destroy the capitalist state apparatus and its place create new institutions, in the interests of workers.

However, since 1917 we have had 100 years of experience, and revolutions turned into counter-revolutions. An attempt is under way to restore capitalist social relations in countries which used to call themselves "socialist".

Perhaps the most curious case of Restoration has been East Germany, the GDR (German Democratic Republic), seemingly disappearing into West Germany, the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany), around 1989-1990. It seems like a whole state, with its non-trivial army, and the security police, the Stasi, one of the most thorough in the world, just “disappeared”, evaporated overnight, without a shot being fired. What light does it throw on the Marxist theory of state? This entails that we look closer at the former East Germany and try to understand its state and society.

However, before we jump into details, let’s look around and notice a similar case of China absorbing Hong Kong, in 1997, and two years later, Macau. Here, we have a case where a state ruled by a Communist party, with a mixed economy, however, dominated by state institutions, absorbs a capitalist colony, under the slogan of “one country, two systems”.

Looking at these two cases will help us understand better what happens to “state”, i.e. armed bands of men, and “society”, in the case where a larger entity, with a very different, even antagonistic system, absorbs a smaller entity.

Next: What Happened to the East German Army?
Universal constructor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von\_Neumann\_universal\_constructor

1. a kind of self-replicating machine
2. Newmann interested in construction universality and evolution
3. Von Neumann's crucial insight is that part of the replicator has a double use; being both an active component of the construction mechanism, and being the target of a passive copying process. This part is played by the tape of instructions in Von Neumann's combination of universal constructor plus instruction tape
Saint-Simon

1760-1825

   It was the genius of Saint-Simon who proposed, at the dawn

of science, to unify all existing sciences into one (in this he is similar to
Tsiolkovsky who proposed rocket flight into space before the airplane was
invented). Saint-Simon writes: “The general system of our knowledge shall be reorganized in accordance
with the hypothesis that the Universe is governed by a single unchangeable law”
(“A Note on the Science of a Man”).

Saint-Simon’s students, in 1820’s, talked about
a need for a grand synthesis of facts accumulated by various sciences. One
attempt at this was made by Auguste
Compte (1798-1857), one of the first philosophers of science and a founder
of positivism. The picture below represents Compte’s theory of science. At the basis of science is mathematics and physics. Astronomy, or cosmology, as we call it today, is a derivative of these two aspects of science. Then, we study the formation of molecules, in chemistry. From chemistry we proceed to the development of life, and a study of it (zoology, botany, theory of evolution). Then, we deal with the most complex phenomena: human society, which is based upon the previous evolution of Universe, and our study of it.
Stone Age tools

Development of tools is what distinguishes one culture from another, and "gods" from "humans". I.e. "gods" are humans with vastly more developed tools and abilities, as shown in the science-fiction novel by brothers Strugatsky "Hard to Be a God".

An adult male chimpanzee standing bipedally while using a tool to dip for ants in the Goualougo Triangle, Congo

Periods in development of tools:

* the Oldowan - 2.6 million years old

The Oldowan traditinal chopper

* the Acheulian - 1.8 million years old - 150-120 thousand years ago

A spear and knife 300,000 years old

* Mousterian culture of Neanderthal men - 300,00 - 40,000 years old
Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World

"If the war of 1870 dealt a blow to the First International, disclosing that there was as yet no fused mass force behind its social-revolutionary program, then the war of 1914 killed the Second International, disclosing that the mightiest organizations of the working masses were dominated by parties which had become transformed into auxiliary organs of the bourgeois state!"

1943 was the end of III International. It was the Second World War that finished that corpse.

Thus:

1) Franco-Prussian war brings to end I International

2) WWI brings to end the II International, while creating pre-conditons for the next one.

3) WWII brings to end the III International. IV International was born in anticipation of that war.

Hence:

Major, world wars seem crucial to ending "old" international organizations, and creating grounds for the next one.
Richard Bach

b. 1936

Bach is noted for his love of aviation and for his books related to flying in ametaphorical context. Bach has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17. In late August 2012, Bach was badly injured when on approach to landing atFriday Harbor, Washington, his aircraft clipped some power lines and crashed upside down in a field.

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" , 1970 (audio)

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah ", 1977

These novels are meditations on how to live.

"Illusions" tries to paint the hero for our times. But so does the "Jonathan Livingston".
News in productive forces 2018

**Science**

Towards unification in mathematics: the Langlands programme.

Cows love and listen to music. A dogfalls asleep to music.

It is possible that there werecontacts between ancient Greece and the First Emperor of China, circa 200 B.C.

Traditional skis in China

A dolphin repeats words after humans

Circumnavigation of Antarctica

A preview of things to come in 2018 - a NASA trip to Mars, and Heavy Falcon flying to ISS.

99 best things that happened in 2017

**Technology**

A 3D printer builds using 4 different techniques, which allows for wires to be printed  together with parts.

MIT is developing  a fusion kind of reactor which promises almost free electrical energy (Rus.)

Tesla starts buildingelectric trucks , which seem better than diesel

Solar farms, instead of coal, in China

Falcon Heavy rocket test - partially successful. Cost - 90 million dollars per launch, instead of 500, for NASA.

Chinese test a flying taxi

Robots replacing humans at many jobs

AI read better than humans, but lag in understanding

**Education**

Most of the students in Yale need a psychologist

Problem with online education - sitting passively in front of a computer. Completion rate - 5-10%

Current state of MOOC's - vocational training, charging students for education. Interests need to be broadened, charges dropped off.
What is a "system"?

Wikipedia:

A **system** is a set of interacting or interdependent component parts forming a complex/intricate whole.

(Here, the concept of a "system" is broken into 2: "parts" and a "whole".)

## Etymology[edit]

The term "system" comes from the Latin word *systēma*, in turn from Greek σύστημα *systēma*: "whole compounded of several parts or members, system", literary "composition".[2]

## Some Concepts in systems theory

In the 1980s John H. Holland (1929- ), Murray Gell-Mann (1929- ) and others coined the term "complex adaptive system" at the interdisciplinary Santa Fe Institute.

Systems theory views the world as a complex system of interconnected parts.

There are natural and human-made (designed) systems. Natural systems may not have an apparent objective but their behavior can be interpreted[*by whom?*] as purposefull by an observer. Human-made systems are made to satisfy an identified and stated need with purposes that are achieved by the delivery of wanted outputs.

An open system exchanges matter and energy with its surroundings. Most systems are open systems; like a car, a coffeemaker, or a computer. A closed system exchanges energy, but not matter, with its environment; like Earth or the project Biosphere2 or 3. An isolated system exchanges neither matter nor energy with its environment. A theoretical example of such system is the Universe.

   An economic system is a mechanism (social institution) which deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in a particular society. The economic system is composed ofpeople, institutions and their relationships to resources, such as the convention of property.

(Hence, "revolutions" are all about changing economic and social systems, i.e. a kind of "systems change".)

In computer science and information science, **system** is a software system which has components as its structure and observable inter-process communications as its behavior.

In engineering and physics, a physical system is the portion of the universe that is being studied (of which a thermodynamic system is one major example). Engineering also has the concept of a system that refers to all of the parts and interactions between parts of a complex project. Systems engineering refers to the branch of engineering that studies how this type of system should be planned, designed, implemented, built, and maintained.

Systems thinking is a style of thinking/reasoning and problem solving. It starts from the recognition of system properties in a given problem.

There are also systems of logic, mathematical systems, military systems, etc.

The concept of a "model" can be used to test our understanding of a "system".

**Other languages:**

Что такое система?
Walt Whitman

1819-1892

An American poet in the period of the Civil War.

"Whitman reportedly enjoyed bathing naked and sunbathing nude. In his work *Manly Health and Training* written under the pseudonym Mose Velsor, he advises men to swim naked. In *A Sun-bathed Nakedness*, he wrote,

Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me… Nature was naked, and I was also… Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! – ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.

See his:

"O Captain! My Captain!" , 1865

"Leaves of Grass"
Альберт Эйнштейн

1879-1955

   Создатель теории относительности. Среди прочего, эта теория использует геометрию Лобачевского-Риманна, согласно которой пространство-время искривленно.

После этого занимался формулировкой единой теории поля (unified field theory).

Среди популярных работ, наиболее видная "Почему социализм? "

Лучшее что написано об Эйнштейне - это его собственная автобиографическая заметка, в виде некролога. Отрывок тут .

По истории физики, Эйнштейн написал:

1. "Ньютон"
2. "Кеплер"

**Другие языки:**

Albert Einstein
Semi-colonial states

**Definition:**

These are countries nominally independent, however, a
foreign military power exercises real power in the country.

1. Indonesia - a revolutionary war of independence against the Dutch in 1945-49
2. Algiers - a revolutionary war against France in 1954-1962
3. Bangladesh - a war of independence from Britain in 1971
4. Pakistan - an on-going war against Pakistani Taliban, TTP (in December 2014, 140 children were killed in a Pakistani army school)
5. Tunisia - dominated by France, "Arab spring" started here in 2011
6. Bahrain - strong protests against government in 2011, part of "the Arab spring"
7. Morocco - part of the "Arab spring"
8. Mali - a new anti-colonial rebellion since 2012, directed against the French
Narodniki, part 8

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(iii) "Narodnaya Volya" was far removed from the masses

   Narodniks have come to the conclusion of the necessity of terror. The main factors contributing to this were: 1) small effectiveness of agitation among the peasants, 2) repression of the tsarist regime against the agitators. However, 3 things are necessary for a social revolution: 1) a mass movement of the people against the existing institutions, 2) a split of the ruling class into opposing factions, 3) a revolutionary organization. The actions of the narodniks have shown a presence of a revolutionary organization ("Narodnaya Volya"), but without the massive protest movement. For example, when the tsar was killed, the people were shocked; they seized possible regicides and led them to the police stations; they beat the students who looked like they might be terrorists; they were hostile to the 5 members of "Narodnaya Volya" who were led to be executed in 1881.

A revolutionary party, without a mass movement by the people, is not often formed. Much more frequently there is an opposite situation, i.e. a massive movement of the people without a revolutionary party, e.g. "the Orange revolution" in Ukraine in 2004. The art of leading a revolution consists in combining the two opposites, i.e. the mass movement of the people and a revolutionary organization.

   Narodniks believed that if the tsar would be killed, the tsarist regime would fall. But this didn't happen. For the terrorist act of 11 September, 2001, the terrorists perhaps also believed that if the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House would be destroyed, the power of the Yankees would crumble. But this didn't happen. The people at the epicenter of the events were shocked and scared. The ratings of the conservative party, and specifically of the President of the USA George Bush, have significantly increased. People on the periphery of capitalism were happy but not organized.

A revolution didn't happen because the terrorist organization behind these acts: 1) didn't lead a mass movement; 2) it was ultra conservative in its ideology.

   10 years after the events of 2001, we have observed "the Arab spring", i.e. massive protest movements in many countries of the Arab world, but first of all in Tunisia, then in Egypt, in Lybia, and in other countries of Africa and the Near East. Here we observed the opposite of what we've seen in 2001. In 2011 there was a mass movement, with little coordination, organization on ad hoc basis, through mobile telephones and social networks, such as Facebook. There was no revolutionary center, no clear program, no appropriate strategy, no significant preparation, which we've seen in the events of 2001.

If one is *to combine the elements of revolutionary organization*, such as those we've seen in the terrorist acts of 2001, *with a mass protest movement*, which we've seen in 2011, then we will get a new great revolution, which will dwarf the Great French revolution of XVIII century, as it will spread to other countries of the world.

Next: Narodniki, part 9
Narodniki, part 10

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(v) The Origins of Revolutionary Movement

Where should we search for the origins of the narodnik movement? Surely, this is not in the works of the theoreticians of the narodnik movement, such as Lavrov and Mikhailovsky, although according to the reminiscences of their contemporaries, students would go to the people having the volume of "Historical Letters" of Lavrov under their arms.

The origins of the narodnik movement should be seen in the general growth of knowledge. The new people and the new concepts which they represented did not fit into the old framework of the tsarist Russia. For example, Wikipedia writes about Lobachevsky : "the scientific ideas of Lobachevsky were not understood by his contemporaries. His work 'On the Origins of Geometry', sent in 1832 by the council of his University to the Academy of Sciences, has gotten a negative evaluation from M.V. Ostrogradsky. He was not supported by his colleagues, there was a growing misunderstanding and an ignorant ridicule".

   Lobachevsky lacked "common sense". Tsiolkovsky was considered a deaf moron. However, N.A. Morozov, a former narodnik, speaking at the meeting of Society of Friends of the Aviation Fleet, on 19 August, 1923, said: "The time has come to think about the future and develop a harmonious plan for development of all kinds of aviation. We should provide strong wings for our Fatherland... Our society should pay a special attention to flying apparatuses based on the rocket principle - the rocket airplanes and space rockets for interplanetary travels. The problem of jet aviation and interplanetary travels is successfully tackled by our great countryman of Kaluga Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky. I find his works exceptionally interesting! We should ask the government to subsidize the rocket investigations with golden rubles to the amount necessary for experimental development of theoretical conclusions of Tsiolkovsky".

Similarly for the modernity, we should also *seek the origins of revolutionary movement in the global development of knowledge in its various forms*. What does it mean?

Looking back at the development of knowledge in Russia in XIX century, we can ask the following questions:

1. Who can summarize modern knowledge?

2. What is the state of modern science?

3. What is happening to the development of industry?

4. What are the tendencies in the modern poetry, music, literature, and art?

5. Who are the people with multidimensional knowledge?

6. What revolutionary movements are there in the modern society?

Next: Narodniki, part 11
Al-Qaeda strategy

On March 11, 2005, *Al-Quds Al-Arabi* published extracts from Saif al-Adel's document "Al Quaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020".[60][61] Abdel Bari Atwan summarizes this strategy as comprising five stages to rid the Ummah from all forms of oppression:

1.     Provoke the United States and the West into invading a Muslim country by staging a massive attack or string of attacks on U.S. soil that results in massive civilian casualties.

2.     Incite local resistance to occupying forces.

3.     Expand the conflict to neighboring countries, and engage the U.S. and its allies in a long war of attrition.

4.     Convert al-Qaeda into an ideology and set of operating principles that can be loosely franchised in other countries without requiring direct command and control, and via these franchises incite attacks against the U.S. and countries allied with the U.S. until they withdraw from the conflict, as happened with the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but which did not have the same effect with the July 7, 2005 London bombings.

5.     The U.S. economy will finally collapse by the year 2020 under the strain of multiple engagements in numerous places, making the worldwide economic system which is dependent on the U.S. also collapse leading to global political instability, which in turn leads to a global jihad led by al-Qaeda and a Wahhabi Caliphate will then be installed across the world following the collapse of the U.S. and the rest of the Western world countries.
What is "life "?

"Life" is characterized by "organisms" rather than "mechanisms".

However, as we strive towards "artificial intelligence ", is it not possible, in fact necessary, that the next step will be "artificial life "? And why shouldn't it be either mechanical or organic?

Curiously enough, we haven't yet found life outside Earth, although we did find organic molecules on asteroids that crashed into our planet. But astronomers, such as Carl Sagan, argue that there must be a lot of life outside Earth, outside our Solar system.

Some say that "life" is the higher form of existence of matter, higher than physical or chemical forms.

Essential characteristics of life, as we know it on Earth, seems to be: 1) cellular form, 2) genes within cells responsible for reproduction.

"Life" is the cycle of existence of an organism from birth to death.

Two main species that we know and that are alive are plants and animals. Their common characteristics are:

1. reproduction
2. birth
3. growth, development
4. ability to obtain food for sustaining itself
5. death

"Thinking " of one sort or another is present only with animals.

**Video:**

* What is life? A lecture by Jeremy England, 2014
Notes on "Ancient Society"

1. Human society evolves through different stages: a. Savagery, b. Barbarism, c. Civilization. These stages are separated by: a. different inventions, b. different modes of organization of human society. Hence, there is a direct connection between inventions and forms of organization of human society.
2. While progress from Savagery is marked by such inventions as fire, bow and arrow, pottery, and Barbarism is marked by such inventions as agriculture, domestication of animals, metalworking, beginning of civilization is marked by the use of alphabet and writing. This is a qualitative jump in human knowledge. We can hypothize that any significant jump in the accumulation and use of human knowledge brings about a significant jump in the mode of organization of human society.
3. Principals subject of Morgan's book are: 1) inventions and discoveries, 2) development of the forms of government, 3) development of the family, 4) development of property. The book of Engels which followed totally missed on the first category ("inventions and discoveries").
4. Government of human society can be based on: 1) sex (primitive society), 2) kin (civil society), 3) territory (the state).
5. Types of families: 1) The consanguine family – intermarriage of brothers and sisters in a group. 2) Punaluan family – “the intermarriage of several brothers to each other’s wives in a group; and of several sisters to each other’s husbands in a group”. 3) Syndyasmian family – “the pairing of a male with a female under the form of marriage, but without an exclusive cohabitation”. Transitional between group marriage and monogamy. 4) Patriarchal family – another transitional form. One man is married to several wives. 5) Monogamian family – “the marriage of one man with one woman, with an exclusive cohabitation; the latter constituting the essential of the institution”. The first two types of organization belong to savagery, the next two to barbarism, and the 5th to beginning of civilization.
6. The growth of institution of private property broke up the group marriage in favor of monogomy. Same thing is happening today in reverse: monogomy is broken up in favor of group marriage. First factor which contributes to this is the public nature of information and knowledge, due to Internet.
7. Conclusion of the author: "A mere property careeris not, the final destiny of mankind, if progress is to be the law of the future as it has been of the past. The time which has passed away since civilization began is but a fragment of the past duration of man’s existence; and but a fragment of the ages yet to come. The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim; because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending. It will be a revival, in a higher form, of the liberty, equality and fraternity of the ancient gentes."
The Fourth Congress of the Communist International

# Report on the Communist International

### (December 1922)

Marxism teaches us that in order for the proletarian revolution to become possible there must be given, schematically speaking, three premises or conditions. In the first place the conditions of production. The technology of production must have attained such heights as to provide economic gains from the replacement of capitalism by socialism. Secondly, there must be a class interested in effecting this change and sufficiently strong to achieve it, that is, a class numerically large enough and playing a sufficiently important role in economy to introduce this change. The reference here, is of course, to the working class. And thirdly, this class must be prepared to carry through the revolution. It must have the will to carry it out, and must be sufficiently organized and conscious to be capable of carrying it out.

(What role in the production process is played by the "knowedge" class of workers?)

Revolutionary class must show a tendency towards self-organization, and hence organization of others.

Not to take the role of the party into account is to fall into pseudo-Marxist objectivism which presupposes some sort of purely objective and automatic preparation of the revolution, and thereby postpones the latter to an indefinite future. This automatism is alien to us.
Атаман Козицын

Предыдущая: "Добровольческие батальоны" ДНР и ЛНР

   Николай Козицын, родился в 1956 г. "В 1978 году окончил Харьковское училище МВД. В течение 6 лет служил надзирателем в исправительно-трудовой колонии УЧ-398/14, откуда в 1985 году был уволен за многочисленные должностные преступления".

"за шесть лет службы надзирателем-контролером в зоне УЧ-398/14 будущий «генерал» успел отличиться по полной — тут тебе и прогулы, и злоупотребление спиртным, и неслужебные контакты с заключенными…

В 1980 году сержант Козицын был привлечен к дисциплинарной ответственности за грубое нарушение общественного порядка: 24-летний конвоир задержан дружинниками за неудачную попытку завладеть сумочкой незнакомой ему дамы" (источник ).

Атаман кроме того еще безграмотный. Пишет он так: "Выпив содержимое, посидев немного в гараже, мы пошли домой. К. пошол домой, я остался поседеть на площади, потом зашол в опорный пункт".

Спрашивается: почему стабильно к власти приходят подобные шушеры?

Гордон пишет : "После начала боевых действий на востоке Украины Козицын и его “казаки” принимают активное участие в столкновениях на стороне сепаратистов. Подконтрольные “атаману” части “Казачьей национальной гвардии” заняли Антрацит (который является неформальной столицей козицынских владений), а также Ровеньки, Красный Луч и ряд других городов на юге Луганской области. Также в сфере влияния Козицына находится “атаман” из Стаханова Павел Дремов.

Николай Козицын открыто не признает существование “ЛНР” и считает подконтрольные ему земли “территорией Российской империи”."

Википедия пишет: "Неоднократные конфликты Козицына и его сторонников с руководством ЛНР в лицеИ. В. Плотницкого и его окружения сделали дальнейшее пребывание атамана в непризнанной республике невозможным, и 30 ноября 2014 года Козицын покинул Донбасс, заявив, что находится в отпуске и сознавшись в подготовке восстания на востоке Украины на протяжении последних двадцати лет." Это лучше, чем судьба "Бэтмена" или Мозгового.

Дальше: Павел Дремов
Money makes the world go round

Money makes
the world go round….is a thought I abhor

True as it may be on a dozen different shores

From Jean Paul Gaultier to all the dollar stores

for a lot of us it seems money's got us on all fours

We bark when it says speak and let it tug our popped collars

lug thru every week while being drug thru debt galore

fillin out our lives like a fuckin order form

And this I'm sad to say's becoming more n more the norm

we can barely tell the difference between perfume…and chloroform

as we put our passions deep to sleep to be cool instead of warm

Is there any reason to think that there will ever be reform

as our imaginations shrink along with the depth of our own core

it’s like the soul’s the missing link as we are further than before

from the center, towards the brink of an endless civil war

One country fails, One country succeeds, and the prosperous ignore

the luscious garden’s full of weeds but there’s nothing to deplore

“as long as there’s a clean place for my feet and the poor don’t look…

too poor, then there’s not much else I need up on the 42nd floor”

Not that you should be ashamed of being successful…or a whore

it just doesn’t seem humane to suck the life out of every pore

of every person in every country for the profits that you HOARD

So you wanna know what I think of money

and the rich vs the poor

yeah you Got NO I-DEA What the fuck I got in store!

Whenever I look at the system I think there must be a glitch

most the world lives in a prison that was built by the rich

and the poor live with this mission as they stretch every stitch

to get on that golden bridge instead of livin in this ditch

but da whole world’s like a game that is fulla bait and switch

and I don’t know the system’s name but it really is a bitch

fulla pretty rocks that glisten and pleasures that make you itch

fulla ears that never listen and eyes that look bewitched

or bewildered by the isms that make everybody twitch

Capitalism….commercialism….consumerism, which

are the trains on which everybody’s lives are hitched

You might think it idealism you might even call it kitsch

but I do not see the wisdom in so many superrich

Faces buried in the bosoms that ‘re inflated by a switch …

throwin out buffets

while people starve for a sandwich

half a world away or in your city’s every niche

people sittin in soup kitchens

eatin up the CARTILAGE!

So ya wanna know what I thinka money
…

and the poor vs the rich

yeah I’d drop another fuckin HOUSE on that GREEN
WICKED WITCH!
Open-source software and hardware movement

First to appear was **free and open source software**.

Wikipedia:

Free, open-source operating systems such as Linux and descendents of BSD are widely utilized today, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones (e.g. Android), and other devices.

The person at the head of the movement was Richard Stallman, in 1980's:

   "In 1983, Richard Stallman, longtime member of the hacker community at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, announced the GNU project, saying that he had become frustrated with the effects of the change in culture of the computer industry and its users.[10] Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in October 1985. An article outlining the project and its goals was published in March 1985 titled the *GNU Manifesto*. The manifesto included significant explanation of the GNU philosophy, *Free Software Definition* and "copyleft" ideas."

   "The Linux kernel, started by Linus Torvalds, was released as freely modifiable source code in 1991. Initially, Linux was not released under a free or open-source software license. However, with version 0.12 in February 1992, he relicensed the project under the GNU General Public License. Much like Unix, Torvalds' kernel attracted the attention of volunteer programmers".

Today, thousands of people cooperate around the Linux project, contributing millions of lines of code.

In 2000's, "**open-source hardware**" started to appear, headed by RepRap project to provide low-cost 3D printers.

Wikipedia:

'*"'***FOSH** (free and open-source hardware). The term usually means that information about the hardware is easily discerned so that others can make it - coupling it closely to the maker movement. Hardware design (i.e. mechanical drawings, schematics, bills of material, PCB layout data, HDL source code andintegrated circuit layout data), in addition to the software that drives the hardware, are all released under free/libre terms. The original sharer gains feedback and potentially improvements on the design from the FOSH community.

   By the mid 2000s open source hardware again became a hub of activity due to the emergence of several major open source hardware projects and companies, such asOpenCores, RepRap (3D printing), Adafruit and SparkFun.

Arduino is another open source hardware (electronics).
Nikolai Kardashev

b. 1932

Kardashev defined three levels of civilizations, based on energy consumption:Type I with "technological level close to the level presently attained on earth, with energy consumption at ≈4×1019 erg/sec (4 × 1012 watts)". Type II, "a civilization capable of harnessing the energy radiated by its own star", and Type III, "a civilization in possession of energy on the scale of its own galaxy".[2]

Interview:

**В чем по Вашему мнению будет следующий серьезный прорыв в Вашей области исследований?**

Возможно, что именно обнаружение входов в кротовые норы и явится прорывом для исследования многих основных проблем современной астрофизики и космологии.

He is engaged in looking for "wormholes" in the Galaxy.

   A wormhole is "is a hypothetical topological feature that would fundamentally be a shortcut connecting two separate points inspacetime. A wormhole may connect extremely long distances such as a billion light years or more, short distances such as a few feet, different universes, and different points in time. A wormhole is much like a tunnel with two ends, each at separate points in spacetime."
Roger Waters' "Watching TV" song

1992 album "Amused to Death"

Watch here

This song recounts in brief the history of China, from Chiang Kai-Shek "who used to order his troops to fire on women and children" to Tiannamen Square in 1989, when same order was given.

   Lyrics of the song:

We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
We were Watching T.V.
Watching T.V.

In Tiananmen Square
Lost my baby there
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes

She was a short order pastry chef
In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
She had shiny hair
She was the daughter of an engineer

Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes

She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs

She was a student of philosophy
Won't you grieve with me
For my yellow rose
Shed a tear

For her bloodstained clothes
She had shiny hair
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes

She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was the daughter of an engineer
So get out your pistols

Get out your stones
Get out your knives
Cut them to the bone
They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine

They built the dark satanic mills
That manufacture hell on earth
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
They are irrelevant to me

But I grieve for my sister
People of China
Do not forget do not forget
The children who died for you

Long live the Republic
Did we do anything after this
I've a feeling we did
We were watching T.V.

Watching T.V.
We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
She wore a white bandanna that said

Freedom now
She thought the Great Wall of China
Would come tumbling down
She was a student

Her father was an engineer
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
That no-good low-down dirty rat
Who used to order his troops

To fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
And in the spring of '48
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate

And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
Out of the state of China
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
And they armed the island of Quemoy

And the shells were flying across the China Sea
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory
Called Taiwan
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man

She's different from Anne Boleyn
She is different from the Rosenbergs
And from the unknown Jew
She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan

Half superstar half victim
She's a victor star conceptually new
And she is different from the Dodo
And from the Kankanbono

She is different from the Aztec
And from the Cherokee
She's everybody's sister
She's symbolic of our failure

She's the one in fifty million
Who can help us to be free
Because she died on T.V.
And I grieve for my sister

Read more: Roger Waters - Watching Tv Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Paolo Freire

September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997

P.F. was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. He is best known for his influential work, *Pedagogy of the Oppressed*

born September 19, 1921 to a middle class family in Recife, Brazil. Freire became familiar with poverty and hunger during the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1931, the family moved to the less expensive city of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, and in 1933 his father died. In school, he ended up four grades behind, and his social life revolved around playing pick up football with other poor children, from whom he learned a great deal. These experiences would shape his concerns for the poor and would help to construct his particular educational viewpoint. Freire stated that poverty and hunger severely affected his ability to learn

Chapter 1:

The oppressed cannot be freed using the methods of the oppressors, i.e. propaganda. The right method is a dialogue of the leaders and the oppressed, together finding their way, the leaders explaining the action.

"A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice *co-intentional* education. Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as it£ permanent re-creators. In this way, the presence of the oppressed in the struggle for their liberation will be what it should be: not pseudo-participation, but committed involvement."
Summerhill school

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill\_School

Summerhill is noted for its philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion. All lessons are optional, and pupils are free to choose what to do with their time

In addition to taking control of their own time, pupils can participate in the self-governing community of the school. School meetings are held three times a week, where pupils and staff alike have an equal voice in the decisions that affect their day-to-day lives, discussing issues and creating or changing school laws. The rules agreed at these meetings are wide ranging - from agreeing on acceptable bed times to making nudity allowed around the pool and within the classroom

There is no concept of a "year" or "form" at Summerhill. Instead, children are placed according to their ability in a given subject. It is not uncommon for a single class to have pupils of widely varying ages

A documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxngqMavda0

site: http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/
Артем Кирпиченок

«Горизонтальные структуры» против рабочих партий

2013 г.

   И в Европе и в Америке «не-авторитарное» и «горизонтальное сопротивление», вооруженное фейсбуками и айфонами, было без особых затруднений разогнано авторитарной, централизованной и милитаризированной полицией. Картина столкновения держащих мобильники над головой демонстрантов и полицейских с дубинками наперевес, напоминала известную сцену из приключений Ходжи Насреддина:

«Обуянный гневным неистовством, Агабек выхватил из пояса тыквенный кувшинчик с волшебным составом.

– Лимчезу! Пуцугу! Зомнихоз! – грозно возопил он, брызгая из кувшинчика на стражников. – Каламай, дочилоза, чимоза, суф, кабахас!

– Держи его! Держи! Хватай! Вяжи! Тащи! Не пускай!... – разноголосо отвечали стражники своими заклинаниями.

Их заклинания, как и следовало ожидать, оказались неизмеримо могущественнее…»

Вместо организаций с четкой революционной программой и с твердым намерением прийти к власти для реализации своей программы, мы имеем сборище атомизированных индивидуумов и рыхлые группы, которые, с разрешения муниципальных властей, способны на несколько недель «освободить» пару сотен квадратных метров городского пространства.
Thor Heyerdahl

1914-2002

      He became notable for his *Kon-Tiki* expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures. This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development. Heyerdahl subsequently made other voyages designed to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient people, notably the *Ra II* expedition of 1970, when he sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.
Александр Богданов

1873-1928

   российский революционер и философ. Написал "Тектология ", которая является ранней версией теории систем.

**Ссылки:**

Текст "Тектология ", ок. 1924 г.

"What I think of Alexander Bogdanov's "Tectology"

Просматривая еще раз "Тектологию" Богданова, 2016 г.

"Тектология" - сайт посвященный толкованию тектологии А. Богданова.
Structure of the Earth

Earth has an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer core that is much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner core.

R. Feynman once remarked that we know more about the interior of the sun than about the interior of the Earth. Hence, we don't know much. One result of the ignorance is our inability to understand and predict earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Very few science fiction authors dared to go to the center of the Earth. These few are: 1) Jules Verne, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", 2) Vladimir Obruchev, "Plutonia". Judging from these science-fiction works, we really know very little about the Earth beneath us.

   We have already harnessed the energy of the earth beneath us to heat houses and produce electricity. This must be developed. See "Geothermal energy" on Internet.