he seems to be repackaging some anarchist ideas in a way that’s more digestible for more ardent marxists/Marxist-leninists

And vice versa, is I think the point.

Though I took it not as repackaging as such, just highlighting strategy and tactics from both along with pros and cons, and suggesting make use of whatever works in a given context. Kind of and pattern language approach to political organisation.

Thanks for sharing these interviews and your thoughts, good to read them.

Fully agree on the wiki editing. I think of it as provisioning the knowledge commons, i.e. knowledge commoning. Sharing good info is very important. IMO a community wiki (local or not, could be an online community) is just as good as editing Wikipedia. Even just posting what you know on your own blog/wiki/digital garden is valuable. One of the most visited pages on my personal site is my notes on how I fixed some crappy cat feeder, not going to foment a revolution but presumably it’s helping people to fix theirs too and stopping some e-waste.

Yeah I think it being based on interviews with those involved keeps it pretty non-dogmatic, just descriptive of what happened. I like that he references Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal towards the end of that interview. An ecology of organisation is a good take.

If We Burn for more on this lesson. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_We_Burn

I mean, it’s marginally better than having to pay or sign up to Backups or Rewards, but yeah, still not great.

Consumers can only get 1 year.

It’d be great to switch everyone to Linux, but ‘just install Linux’ doesn’t fly for a lot of people. I volunteer in a repair cafe and see it first hand, even if you’re there to do it with them

Check out https://www.repaircafe.org/en/visit/

Also https://directory.repaircafe.us/browse/cafes/

If you’re in the US, also search for ‘Fixit Clinics’. Same idea, different name.

Permanent repair spaces like Fixing Factories are a move in this direction https://www.fixingfactory.org/

Totally agree on the importance of skill sharing.

Sharing skills and knowledge is a big part of RC culture. The idea is ‘fix your thing with someone’ rather than ‘get your thing fixed’. But it does vary from place to place and fixer to fixer.

In the London Restart community skillshares used to be common - fixers gathering together to share what they know (soldering skills, PAT testing, Linux, fault diagnosis, that kind of thing).

Also check out the move towards permanent fixing spaces like Fixing Factories - https://www.fixingfactory.org/ - skills training is a big part of them.

He didn’t try org-mode though. https://orgmode.org/