I love how anarchists themselves don’t know what centralization is, despite all this talk about decentralization
In no way is capitalism decentralized except maybe in the early production and it’s “anarchy of markets” but even then we’re way past that point as capital tends to centralize. State power, and the bourgeois dictatorship, is centralized pretty much everywhere in the world (local power being mostly irrelevant)
The most recent historic period where decentralization existed would probably be pre-absolutist feudalism, where regions would generally be split between local nobility or prefects instead of one centralized body.
Yup. Though, less “tends to”, more inevitable, mechanistically, intrinsic to money as power, taking more money to extract more money, the rich get richer, and accelerates under consolidations towards monarchy via plutarchy via oligarchy via kleptarchy via corporatism via capitalism via “free market”, ending with maximal centralisation. But yup.
Oh, and another point, … I have logs (history) of irc chans of decentralised organisation of development of decentralised technologies… so that’s more recent than the feudal times… while we’re on contrivances. ;) Heh. Feudal, decentral. That’s a fun angle to look at it from.
I love how anarchists themselves don’t know what centralization is, despite all this talk about decentralization
In no way is capitalism decentralized except maybe in the early production and it’s “anarchy of markets” but even then we’re way past that point as capital tends to centralize. State power, and the bourgeois dictatorship, is centralized pretty much everywhere in the world (local power being mostly irrelevant)
The most recent historic period where decentralization existed would probably be pre-absolutist feudalism, where regions would generally be split between local nobility or prefects instead of one centralized body.
Yup. Though, less “tends to”, more inevitable, mechanistically, intrinsic to money as power, taking more money to extract more money, the rich get richer, and accelerates under consolidations towards monarchy via plutarchy via oligarchy via kleptarchy via corporatism via capitalism via “free market”, ending with maximal centralisation. But yup.
Oh, and another point, … I have logs (history) of irc chans of decentralised organisation of development of decentralised technologies… so that’s more recent than the feudal times… while we’re on contrivances. ;) Heh. Feudal, decentral. That’s a fun angle to look at it from.