I didn’t come to communist ideas out of some form of idealism but because l’ve actually done the math. I played and made money on the stock market then realized that because of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics capitalism is doomed to fail and if we want to have a society left when it does, we gotta structure one around stability instead of endless growth. We’re on a finite planet. The markets can’t grow forever and when they run out of space to grow, the whole system falls apart. We’re already at the breaking point. That’s why they’re betting the farm on Al. It’s a desperate bid to invent a way around it, but it won’t work. As someone who was working on Al long before the big tech companies were, I know it just can’t do what they’re trying to make it do. What they call hallucination” and “model collapse” is actually the problem at the root of the entire thing. It’s too technical to explain in a Facebook message but basically unless you can build a machine that can rewire itself in real time, all you can build is a fancy plagiarism machine. Computers work by taking in instructions, doing fixed algorithms to those instructions, then outputting the result. You can’t algorithm creativity because that comes from neurotoxicity, which is something our brains are constantly doing; literally rewiring themselves. It’s how we’re able to improvise, adapt, and overcome. No machine we currently have any idea how to build is capable of that. If you look into the Al industry, what you find is a circle jerk. There’s no money actually being made except for a small amount of government funding for surveillance programs (something no freedom loving American should tolerate). Even if every single person with a smart phone bought a ChatGPT subscription at the highest level, they would still be losing money because of the astronomical operating cost. So if it’s so unprofitable and doomed to fail why are they doing it? Because they’re panicking and think throwing money at the problem might make it go away. But you can’t money your way out of a physics problem. So yeah, l’m a communist, but only because I tried it their way and found out the hard way that it doesn’t work. But had already stumbled onto things like permaculture which fill in the gaps that used to exist in old world communism. We didn’t have that kind of technology back then but we do now. We can literally terraform the entire planet into a food forest. There’s already people doing it and it’s proven to be 100% scalable and works astronomically better than factory farming, because you’re working with nature instead of against it.
Farmers in America are committing suicide at a much higher rate than any other profession and the problem keeps getting worse. The reason is that they’re not getting enough return on investment to be profitable. People always say that if you make a product everyone wants to buy you will be successful but literally everyone has to eat food and yet they’re not making enough to keep the farm. Why? Well it’s a complex issue but a big contributor is the depletion of topsoil. Monoculture farms (farms that grow a lot of one kind of plant) deplete the nutrients in the topsoil overtime and the longer you try to grow just one or two kinds of crops in a field the worse return on investment you get. Permaculture answers this problem by studying how nature solves the problem in a natural forest and repeating that with intent. The answer is layering and plant allies. Naturally different species of plants use and release different nutrients from each other. By clustering groups of plants that complement each other together in layers (not unlike how buildings are constructed in layers) you can engineer self replenishing soil. It takes more work to setup initially but after you get it going it basically takes care of itself. Plus you don’t need to worry about weeds and pests because you engineer around them, so you don’t need to dump chemicals all over the field. Weeds are plants that get in the way and cause damage in a nonoculture farm because you’ve artificially left niches open that they’re spreading into. With permaculture, you’re manually filling every niche with plants that naturally compliment each other. Since there’s no open niches to spread into, weeds just don’t have anywhere to go. And with such high and diverse yields, permaculture ends up producing so much more than it can use that pests just become a non-issue.
So now I imagine you’re asking if it’s so great why isn’t everyone switching? Well three big reasons: first, it’s a brand new science that’s only recently just started being deployed at scale in certain areas. Secondly, companies like Monsanto and John Deere have built entire industries around monoculture farming and they’re not in any hurry to suddenly switch to an entirely new way of doing things overnight. Finally, most people, even in the agricultural industry, simply don’t know it’s a thing. That’s changing though, thanks to that topsoil problem I mentioned there’s now a growing number of activist groups working to turn things around and spread awareness of the problem and its solution. Joe Rogan recently did a podcast with one such activist who has been riding across Asia and Europe on a motorcycle teaching people about the topsoil depletion problem and how to respond to it by moving away from monoculture farming. lt’s a great listen of you’ve got the time. So how does this all tie back into communism? Well if you solve the food problem by turning every backyard into a food forest and you suddenly have more food than you can eat, suddenly we’re in a new kind of economy. Star Trek depiction is probably the closest metaphor. In a post scarcity economy we don’t need everyone working in order to keep things chugging along. People will still need to make things but nowhere near at the scale were currently producing. Plus the current economy is overproducing at an absurd scale. So much gets produced only to end up in landfills. What a waste. Uber capitalism in order to stay in business you gotta keep growing That growth drives inflation thanks to that thermodynamics I mentioned earlier. (You likely know it as supply and demand, but fundamentally it’s just a physics problem; matter and energy exchanges) In order to keep up the demand you gotta balance the supply. The primary way they do that in today’s economy is to intentionally make the products worse so they slow down or even outright break so you have to buy another one and another one and another one. We all kinda know this by now; planned obsolescence. It’s why everyone always rushes out to buy the new iphone even though it’s practically the same thing you bought last time. They artificially slow it down so you’ll buy the new faster one. Why I realized communism does what capitalism don’t was actually something I stumbled into by accident. You see, while 1 work in IT as my day job, I moonlight as a musician. T have a decent collection of guitars from all over the place. Well I got tired of having to pay Guitar Center to fix them for me so I bought a soldering kit and learned how to do it myself. After fixing up all the ones in my collection and deciding it was a fun hobby,I started looking on eBay for stuff on the cheap I could fix up. 1 found couple Soviet guitars and I just fell in love with the design. They were only about $200 a piece so I figured why not. That’s practically nothing in guitar terms. There are Chinese knock off Temu guitars for more than that. 1 got them expecting them to be junk and needing major repairs and bought parts and tools in preparation for their arrival in advance while I waited for them to get here from the Ukraine. Again, this was just gonna be a fun little project; let’s get some old Soviet junk working again with modern parts bought here in the good old USA. Then they got here and they were not at all what I expected. They were in practically pristine condition. I couldn’t believe it. For how little they cost and how old they were how could they possibly still be in working order? I’d just spent like an entire month repairing my capitalist made guitars that were all less than 15 years old and these things were from a country that doesn’t even exist anymore and yet they still worked? Amazing. But it didn’t stop there. No, these things sounded better than anything else in my collection at any price point and even sound better than some of the most expensive guitars Ive ever played in my life. Even more shocking is they play better too. They’re the most comfortable things l’ve ever played and they hold their tuning like nobody’s business. And these things are rock solid too. I’m pretty sure I could drop kick one of them off a lighthouse and it would still work after it hit the ground. That’s how well put together these things are. was absolutely shocked. They were so much better than my other guitars that for a hot minute other guitars that for a hot minute I genuinely considered just selling everything else in my collection After having to replace damn near everything to get my capitalist guitars working again after less than 15 years, having Soviet guitars that didn’t need any work at all just broke my brain. The contrast was unreal. Literally the only thing l’ve done to them since getting them was swap out the strap pegs with strap locks. The Soviet ones used a different size standard which didn’t fit Western straps and I always put straplocks on any new guitar I buy regardless. That’s literally the only thing l’ve had to change. So yeah, that’s when it finally clicked; we’ve been doing it wrong this whole time. We’re wasting so much time, money, and resources making garbage for landfills on purpose just to keep capitalism alive when there’s better alternatives.
Thermodynamics and the Economy
“All natural and technological processes proceed in such a way; the availability of the remaining energy decreases. In all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves an isolated system, the entropy of that system increases. Energy continuously flows from being concentrated to becoming dispersed, spread out, wasted, and useless. New energy cannot be created, and high-grade energy is being destroyed. An economy based on endless growth is unsustainable.” –From The Second Law by Muse
Economics is the study of the conversation of kinetic energy (labor) into chemical energy (wealth). The laws of thermodynamic therefore directly apply to economics. Inflation is therefore simply the measurable increase in economic entropy. Wealth, as a storage medium for the value of energy extracted through labor, losses value over time as the system tries to expand beyond it’s fixed physical limits. It’s value goes from being concentrated to being disappearsed.
Therefore, according to the second law of thermodynamics, if no wealth enters an isolated system, such as is the case on the planet Earth (or more accurately the solar system if you insist on being pedantic), under the pressure of capitalism’s need for constant economic expansion, it will always ultimately devalue the currency until it inevitably reaches collapse. They call this a “market crash“. This is the inevitable result of what happens when the needs of the people outweigh the amount of value their labor can provide them. Since there’s only so much time in the day that one can use for working without physically collapsing, there is therefore a fixed wall beyond which no more labor can be extracted from an individual. As the pay cut effect inflation has on one’s income increases exponentially, eventually you reach critical mass.
Therefore, because of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, capitalism is inherently unsustainable. Late stage capitalism always gives way to fascism in a desperate attempt by the exploitive class to keep capitalism alive on life support. It starts with corporate subsides and bailouts at the taxpayer expense, and ends with a totalitarian expansion as the rich try desperately to hold their crumbling wealth together as it inevitably gives away to entropy. Economic expansion hits its fixed physical limits and so they look to military expansion to try to maintain the endless growth, but that too is unsustainable and will inevitably fail.
Under such conditions the poor, who’s share of the pie continues to dwindle, is forced to work harder and harder to make less and less until they can’t anymore. Eventually they have no choice but revolt or starve.
This isn’t hypothetical. We have direct historical evidence of this happening. After the end of the first world war, the economy of the Weimar Republic was in shambles. Its currency had reached an inflation rate so astronomical that they literally had to carry carts of the stuff everywhere in order to buy anything. Faced with such a situation, the rich turned to a fascist takeover of the country, turning it into what we now know as Nazi Germany. In order to win over the masses, they pulled a bait and switch. They feigned socialism while being its literal polar opposite. Additionally, they used forms of prejudice such as racism (primarily in the form of antisemitism and romaphobia), homophobia, transphobia, ableism and the like to turn the working class against themselves so they would accept the new totalitarian regime, mistaking their neighbors as their enemies rather than the predatory class that was pulling the strings. (Sound familiar?)
If it wasn’t for the brave heroism of the allied Anti-Fascist (Antifa for short) forces taking the flight to the shores of Normandy, it likely would have gotten a whole lot worse before it got any better.
Therefore, if we want to halt the inevitable march towards fascism, we must convert our economy from one centered on endless growth into one centered on maintaining stability, such as democratic communism. We have no other options and time is quickly running out. Like it or not, the rise of fascism is inevitable under capitalism due to the fundamental laws of nature.
The word communism likely made you flinch, but have you ever considered why? How about we follow the money and see who has a vested interest in keeping you afraid.
Now, if communism is really as bad as they say, why would they feel the need to spend so much money to keep you afraid of it? Really makes you think, doesn’t it?
I know the knee-jerk reaction is to say “yeah well communism failed” but have you ever thought about why that is? If in the Olympics, a US athlete pulled a gun and shot off the kneecaps of the Russian athlete, we wouldn’t say that the Russian athlete was a failure, we’d say the US athlete cheated, so why when the race was economic, do we let the sabotage of the Soviet Union by the US get a pass? In reality, capitalism cannot compete with communism without cheating. I’m not just talking out my ass either, I’m holding physical proof in my hands.
If you need further proof of what’s coming if you don’t fight immediately, look into the actions of Plantir and Oracle, which is a capitalist led effort to build a social credit score system designed to force people into compliance with the upcoming fascist regime.A great breakdown of this threat to democracy can be found here:
All the horrors they said would come about under communism are things they’ve done under capitalism. It’s the old “everything accusation by the right is a confession” once again.
I’m now reminded of the words of one of the founding fathers of the United States:
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” –Patrick Henry
So in the words of the Dropkick Murphys 🎵 Who’ll stand with us? 🎵