Buddhism and Marxism

I would like to propose that the next Trash community be a debate between the Buddho-Marxist critique of Capitalism, offered by Chaim and Tom Pepper; and a networkological critique of Capitalism--aka 'post-capitalism'--offered by Oshan Jarrow and Paul Mason.


Or maybe nobody in this Trash Community cares enough to even go on with this project. If not, I'll end my involvement in it.

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Jarrow's A Post-Capitalist Philosophy of Networks offers an intriguing possibility of post-capitalism through superseding networks. musingmind.org/essays/networking-post-capitalism

What I find particularly compelling is this critique offered by Guattari:

"It’s this scrapping of business-as-usual that Guattari sees potentiating our moment in cultural evolution:

“Henceforth it is the ways of living on this planet that are in question, in the context of the acceleration of techno-scientific mutations and of considerable demographic growth. Through the continuous development of machinic labour, multiplied by the information revolution, productive forces can make available an increasing amount of time for potential human activity. But to what end? Unemployment, oppressive marginalisation, loneliness, boredom, anxiety and neurosis? Or culture, creation, development, the reinvention of the environment and the enrichment of modes of life and sensibility?”
The latter ends are networked possibilities. In these liminal spaces, competing futures grapple with institutions of the present. What prevails will depend largely upon what ways of living we network ourselves into. Here’s Paul Mason again:

“Everything comes down to the struggle between the network and the hierarchy: between old forms of society moulded around capitalism and new forms of society that prefigure what comes next.”