This week I’ve been mostly reading/watching/listening about #anarchism, largely via David Graeber interviews, related content, and looking up Irish Anarchy groups (not many!). Also been reading Graeber’s ‘Bullshit Jobs’ and I don’t know how I’d managed to avoid it until now; this shit is exactly my jam. Like I say this stuff all the time, I should have read this ages ago.

I think Graeber is a bit too narrow in his definition of BS jobs though.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

His criteria for bullshit jobs depends heavily on the workers perception, whether or not they feel it is a bullshit (pointless) job, and he doesn’t really try as much to assess the job in terms of its actual utility to people.

I think many people don’t realise how unnecessary their job is or could be, for instance, if it were not for imaginary copyright laws and the associated threat of violence or harm which prevents us from openly sharing ideas, software, and other tools.

Jobs which exist because “competition is healthy and leads to innovation”.

Evolutionary methods try to simulate what an anarchist society might be like, but revolutionary tactics, which have historically taken a violent turn, aim to overthrow authority and the state.

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Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarianand anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers’ self-management. It is contrasted from other forms of socialism by its rejection of state ownershipand from other forms of libertarianism by its rejection of private property.

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