Camille E. Acey @kavbojka@mastodon.social

Land reform is my Exhibit B -- coops being Exhibit A -- of what happens when you attempt to introduce radical economic changes without the commensurate radical political transformation.

(BBC) South Africa risks 'Zimbabwe-style land chaos' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-45099915 #cooperatives #landreform #southafrica #platfomcoop #venezuela

@wu_lee
Unfortunately cooperativism is an economic project without any associated political project, so history has already borne out that the answer to this question is clearly NO.

@wu_lee
I have been involved in coops for 20 years and have mentors who've been involved in coops since the 70s. I struggle to point to examples of coops being forces for broader radical sociopolitical *systemic* change. I'm all ears/eyes if you know of any. But effecting sociopolitical change is not some thing that is "baked" into the cooperative structure and that is why I call for an accompanying explicitly political project.
@Antanicus @vfrmedia @alanz

@Antanicus
My point is that the lion's share of cooperatives in the world would not describe themselves this way. I believe the majority of the world's cooperatives are, indeed, capitalist and pro-capitalist. I don't have data at hand, but I welcome it and am enjoying this debate immensely.
@wu_lee @vfrmedia @alanz

"Asian Futurism is inspired by Afrofuturism. But temporal speculation works in an opposite way here. Whereas the latter resists a racist primitivism, the former accedes to the futurity of the yellow peril. After all, every cyberpunk plot, ever, goes like this: the future will be Asian, even though the heroes won’t be."
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/sep/05/continental-drift-notes-on-asia#n-art/ #futurism #antiblackness

"Living a Nonprofit Lie: Childcare Workers Who Can’t Afford Childcare" (via NPQ)
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/09/20/living-a-nonprofit-lie-childcare-workers-who-cant-afford-childcare/
#childcare #workersrights #nonprofitindustrialcomplex

There's nothing like dealing with legal issues in this country to make you double down in your commitment to its violent overthrow. #legalsystem

And for the record, this shit is STILL going on. Alison Brie is STILL accepting pay to do something she claims to know is wrong. Talk is cheap, white people. CHEAP. Money talks. Goodbye #bojackhorseman

"Alison Brie still voices Vietnamese-American Diane Nguyen, but BoJack’s creator says he wouldn’t make the same choice now." Forfucksakes! Finally. https://slate.com/culture/2018/09/bojack-horseman-raphael-bob-waksberg-diane-nguyen-representation.html #bojackhorseman

"A left populism worthy of its name would not stabilize the existing institutions around us, but stretch them beyond their limits, breaking them and building a new politics based on radical democracy. " https://theoutline.com/post/6253/chantal-mouffe-left-populism-review #chantalmouffe #democracy #populism

As a woman of color, I related to her struggle but I wasn't sure how to feel at the end. I'd rather Kusama be free than famous. #yayoikusama

The Kusama Infinity was both beautiful and frustrating. It centered the same self-congratulatory art establishment swine that first cast her aside and celebrated white men who blatantly stole her work. In the end, she emerged triumphant but so terribly broken.

I gotta admit this was a helpful read despite the fact that this dude seems like an entitled bro https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people
The part about the moving goalposts definitely rang true in my case as did the final section Next #employment #fired #autonomyinstitute #work

"It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, is always passing away."  #boethius

I kinda wanna know about this #antideutsch thing but then again... I kinda don't. #technoqueers