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Lord, where are you going?
This thread seems entirely filled with people who seem to not grasp my core point.
We grasp the core point: vim is not typical. This is not insightful.
What we care more about is the link to the jobs portal of the company there will be an opening at soon that uses vim as it’s standard dev tool chain.
The image shows the last state of a terminal emulator of person without command line or git knowledge. The person attempted to run
git commitand is now blaming the result of a specific configuration on their system that launches a vi derivative on the vi derivative itself. This image is expected to convince the viewer that the vi derrivative is to blame.
Ideologically I agree that we need to transcend social organizations that stratify power.
Practically speaking framing it around a parasitic lens is ideologically pointless because socialist societies also tend to have this problem.
It doesn’t make the assumptions you made in your original comment, that elites are necessary or that they can be integrated by making society more complex without increasing the relative resources available for them
Elite positions are as necessary as the stability of the social systems under which they’re necessitated. If your argument is that elites are unnecessary then you’d need to explain a viable socio-political model where they do not exist.
We can argue about the elite efficiency, e.g. minimizing to necessary elites. However even the USSR, China, Makhnovshchina, and ELZN have elites. So it’s not like they’re going to go away without a new radical socio-technology that does not exist.
As far as the complexity argument, that’s literally the path that many societies had effectively chosen to stave off elite overproduction issues from coming to a boil. Tsarist Russia for example arguably ran a century and a half by doing makework bullshit for elites (see the linked blog). I never argued that it effectively solved the root causes of elite overproduction simply that it was a solution.
The arguments here can easily be applied to “Pol Pot”, which again is also not something I am advocating, but something I am enumerating.
Ibn Khaldun
Is this a Laffler Curve joke?
In the modern era that’s basically it (because higher education represents the biggest generation of elites), but it’s more general.
Elite in this case is simply the highest caste, class or social strata that enforces some form of power over the lower ones.
Let’s say there’s X amount of elite “positions” (cuz being a King is not a job and this applies to history as well) every year, presidents, senators, bankers, CEO’s, all the way to some upper middle class jobs.
Every year this set of jobs can expand or contract. These positions require (through culture or ability) social elites to fulfill their function, people of privilege, college educated, connected, skilled, etc. Let’s call the amount of elites Y
Elite overproduction essentially is a phenomenon in a country where Y > X and grows Y at a greater rate than X year over year.
In Tsarist Russia for example Y (represented by the nobility) grew at a rate of 2.5 over ~75 years. In that same time X had only grown through fake make work councils which could not subsume all of the elites being produced.
However that’s not all the Y there was, Russia was also growing like the world was and petty bourgoisie were also growing adding to Y.
Historically the conflict between the nobility and the bourgeoisie has been a conflict of the nobility refusing to make de jure space for the bourgeoisie and being de facto evicted from that space. That’s literally the French Revolution.
This isn’t just Marxism rebranded because this applies to socialist countries in history such as the USSR, and currently such as China.
The biggest issue with BPP’s militancy is community policing took on the state in the streets and protest actions took on the state in the newspapers. Had they not taken on the state the movement could have had community policing and maintained course while staying under the radar.
The difficulty of a simplistic “do it later” argument, is that it’s harder to build a competent militia “later” both politically, ideologically and militarily.
The issue was that David picked a fight with Goliath before securing the blessings of God.
The predator prey models are not used in elite over reproduction work. They’re used in his medieval geopolitical work.
Paper: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82s3p5hj
Explainer: https://www.historica.org/blog/cliodynamics-and-mathematical-models-in-history-part-2
The elite overproduction paper does not use them: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qp8x28p
First off, Turchin isn’t a Marxist. He accepts Marxist and Marxian ideas though especially when proven through empirical data. He obviously must he’s a sociologist. He’s ambivalent / neutral about Marxism.
His model is summed up as: When excess elites are not absorbed into the existing power structure and are locked out due to lack of space in that power structure, they become aggrieved by their low status and seek alternatives to that power structure in various ways. Since they are elites they have some means whether knowledge, skill or material, thus have the means to destabilize the power structure itself.
This quite literally describes the conditions that made Lenin and much of the intellectual vanguard themselves as they related to the power structure of Tsarist Russia. One of the things that many here do not really focus on is that Lenin and the Bolsheviks weren’t just solving a problem for the proletariat, they were solving a problem for themselves too.
Here’s a good blog putting together the historical info but focusing on the general nobility rather than the Bolsheviks only.
https://novum.substack.com/p/elite-overproduction-a-story-of-russia?s=w
Turchin’s book is called Secular Cycles.
Turchin’s substack is here: https://peterturchin.substack.com/archive?sort=top
He has a fairly interesting series called “A Chronicle of Revolution” that talks about the meta of revolutions themselves and relates it to current/historical happenings.
Turchin’s father was Valentin Turchin who was a fairly famous Soviet cyberntician who left the USSR after defending Sakharov, because he didn’t want his science career to plummet in the same way. His life story is literally based in elite over reproduction.
Turchin was at the University of Moscow before his family left the USSR.
What’s always interesting about these discussions of elite overproduction is they’re never framed as understanding elite management as a social control model rather elite overproduction is framed as a natural expression of needing a certain labor mix that spirals out of control.
Nobody seems to take the 3rd order logic step of saying, if society needs smart people, but hierarchical societies can only aggrandize these individuals with a limited number of positions, and that the creation of members of this class becomes easier as we advance in technology that leads to a couple of “solutions”:
The USSR struggled with this as well in terms of students in the 80’s which thought they were better than kolkhoz. The Jeans Generation was not just a Georgian phenomenon, it was all over the USSR. It’s fairly inarguable that class stratification reemerged in various was in socialist states, just not in the classical capitalist form. It will be interesting to see how China deals with this going forward given that graduating with a Masters Degree is currently a great way to be unemployed.
This is quite literally the plot to A Clockwork Orange.
This is a Ukr. claim. Image is from Ukrainian DIU in Ukrainian. The component breakdown happened because they scrapped a downed drone.
Yeah it’s not “civilian sacrifice” when your poorest get priced out of food so that you have to bring back rationing through cash assisted means. Cool. Cool. You’re a self professed Marxist huh?
None of what you said matters in regards to economic reorientation of a war economy. You’re just saying the top line of the economy was good in 2024. Most war economies are boom economies. You are just incapable of staying on topic even on your own terms with your own definitions.
Kaliningrad has literally reintroduced the card system this year. Kamchatka has also done this. Tatarstan is likely next if they don’t just put the kibosh on the whole thing and tell people to deal.
This is literally modern rationing, except capitalist realism style since Governments are no longer powerful enough to keep market-clearance price by volume alone with a globalized market.
Also the CB is dropping rates because the first quarter of this year was a 1.4% vs 5.4% in 2024.
Anecdotally, my friend has been running a pretty successful consumer good for Russians, 3d printed war gaming figurines. He expanded like crazy 2020-2023 quit his job and everything had 3 employees somewhere near 30 printers. He’s back working SE for a western company because the sales have been unstable and he didn’t want to fire someone, but he cannot work on it full time anymore.
yeah a big problem right now is that a lot of Maori parties are in a no-win political situation because the lib system was always going to defeat them, in the same way it unfairly defeated other indigenous movements. Essentially the passing of a practical Treaty Principles Bill is going to be a loss, because the Treaty is interpreted in a way that says Maori have sovereignty, which is impractical for a parliamentary government, same way the shore issue was impractical for a capitalist propertarian system.
The Maori aren’t organizing a revolution they’re organizing politically within the system. They also have an advantage of sorts with Maori electorates. However these are consistently at risk of being reformed out of the NZ electoral system. Maori participation in parliament has consistently been growing, but they’re 26% of Parliament and 17% of the population, so in terms of representative population mix, they’re over-represented arguably.
The difference between World War I and World War II and all of the subsequent wars that explains the military spend is that it was the end of the second industrial revolution in the West. War was fully mechanized in the first half of the 20th century. So until a technological breakthrough of the magnitude of the second industrial revolution happens next to such instability as the beginning of the 20th century there will never be another “war economy country” by your measures. Armenia hit 18% of GDP just to lose Artsakh, that’s literally the biggest percentage spend in the post WW2 era.
Everyone’s libing out hard over this. I’ve seen this my entire fucking life.
Watch any municipal or state town hall where it’s an issue with real stakes where the cops have shot someone, where there’s an unequal land deal with developer money behind it, or literally just like be black in America.
The only difference here is that your status as Mr. Senator no longer protects you. These types of arrests and laws have existed in America and have always been used this way. This is why disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and and vagrancy laws are often only criminally enforced on those who cannot afford good lawyers or plead out. These cases get dropped upon challenge because most applications of these laws won’t pass a smell test, and the jurisdictions don’t want to lose them.
Likewise most courts won’t per se strike down these laws because this kind of stuff is really where the rubber meets the road with liberal legalism.
These laws are basically what makes that cop saying “you can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride” possible.