Political Memes

I think it's fantastic but also it has gotten a ton of praise and is fondly remembered, so adequately rated imo

Why can’t we have art deco industrial design on modern devices? Smartphones with the aesthetics of 1920s cigarette cases/makeup mirrors and such. That stuff still looks daringly modern, despite the actual use cases of the objects being obsolete to the point of being essentially alien artefacts.

I absolutely love it and the streamline industrial period that came after it. Awesome style.

I don't know what it's rating is, but it's not forgotten. I bet if you surveyed 100 people to name art styles, I am confident that well over 60% would mention art deco.

New Capenna!

Detroit is already back and fuckin rocks.

Sure!

First our car companies will have to build a culturally relevant car.. That has a 0% chance of happening

well, let's start by breaking down the word.

• Anarcho: without leaders
• Syndicalism: a socialist economy in which the will of workers are directed through labor unions

So as a word, it means a socialist society without leaders, with an economy controlled by justified hierarchy. From what I've found in my search is that anarcho-syndicalists don't really have any major published political philosophy (I know it's out there, I just haven't found it), but it's typically taken the form of aggressive, sometimes militant methods of organizing workers. Historically, the one extreme example of their success was the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union during the Spanish revolution, which established a wartime socialist economy based on syndicalist values.

An important term I want to point out that's important to all anarchist strains of political philosophy is justified hierarchy. An extremely common misconception is that anarchists want pure chaos by destroying all of society, which couldn't be further from the truth. In actuality, they are opposed to all hierarchy that cannot be justified. This includes political parties, governments, and representative democracy. Instead they believe in highly cooperative direct democracy to ensure the will of the people. This is distinct from government due to free association. With syndicalism in the mix, this means that unions direct the distribution of goods within and between communities based on free association; both communities/unions/federations cooperate for as long as both groups see it as beneficial. These unions do not have any influence on what people choose to do, in fact the union itself is a justified hierarchy with limited direct influence on their member's lives, but controlled via participatory direct democracy. that is what it means to have justified hierarchy.

Syndicalism is using labor unions as a means of eventually gaining workers' control over the economy and abolishing capitalism.

It’s when you and your union decide you own the place now and that if the old owners would like to keep it they’re gonna have to outgun you.

We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.

By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

--but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

Unions (or workers syndicates) operate as the backbone of the economy. These syndicates are organized into varying levels of syndicates (national, local, etc). They then form a web like structure where they coordinate resources in a decentralized manner while also being partially centralized through central syndicates.

Me and my local union (they love the Charleston)