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Oh wow! The prints for my “At the beginning it should be just a case for the old iPad 4 display panel” Raspberry Pi case came out better than expected! I’m really happy with the result. 🥰

Now I have to print the rear plate, mounting a bunch of threaded inserts and the electronics and the case is done.

Photos of the end result will follow. 😃

#3DPrint#3DPrinting#RaspberryPi
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Megan

"A long view of the history of capitalism reveals that growth has always depended on enclosure. The Lauderdale Paradox holds that an increase in private riches is achieved by choking off public wealth. This is done not only in order to acquire free value from the commons but also, to create an artificial scarcity that generates pressures for competitive productivity."

Jason Hickel, "Degrowth: A Theory of Radical Abundance"
#Capitalism #Degrowth #JasonHickel #Enclosure #Colonialism

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Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

I understand capitalism to be the economic system that functions by enclosing access to private property* in order to force people to cede a large part of the value produced by their labor to the people who control access to the means of production. The other essential aspect of capitalism is that that this access and control can be bought and sold, thus making it into capital.

What I'm wondering is what about this economic system requires continuous growth? This is a serious question, to which I don't have an answer. It's easy enough for me to imagine a steady-state capitalist economy. What's wrong with this idea if anything?

P.s. I'm not especially interested in arguing about the definition of the word "capitalism", but maybe I've missed some essential aspect of it that does imply continual growth?

#Capitalism #InfiniteGrowth #Enclosure

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* Which means productive land as well as more abstract means of production. In this definition "private" doesn't mean owned by non-governments, it means that access is restricted in order to compel labor. Governments own plenty of private property.

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Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

TIL about Kett's Rebellion (1549)!

Led by Robert Ket, himself a landowner, a rebel army of sixteen thousand peasants captured Norwich, England’s second-largest city. They set up their “court” on Mousehold Heath outside the city, where they maintained their cause for six weeks. They demanded that “lords, knights, esquires, and gentlemen” be stopped from commercial stock-raising, and rent-gouging, and from privatizing common lands. We can agree with Bindoff that this was “a radical programme, indeed, which would have clipped the wings of rural capitalism.”

-- Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race vol. 2

#Capitalism #Commonism #Enclosure #Norwich #KettsRebellion #PeasantUprisings

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kett%2

en.m.wikipedia.orgKett's Rebellion - Wikipedia
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RD

@jik @shrugdealer

The point here is that the vast majority of people never chose capitalism, it was forced upon them.

The ability of more people to chose ways of living "involving kindness and cooperation" have been drastically reduced, almost eliminated, by the oppressive regime of capitalism.

This was a calculated result of some people being "thinking creatures" and having amassed power to dominate and exploit the rest of us, not about people acting on "animal desires", nor about people having chosen something.

>>Maybe people killing each other is "natural." <<

Do you think killing people *lawfully* (as described in the article I'm not sure you read) is "natural"?

Isn't "rule of law" supposed to be about rejecting "animal natures"?

#capitalism#enclosure#commons
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Cory Doctorow

Long thread/7

Hardin asserted this as historic fact, but cited no instances in which it happened. But when the Nobel-winning #ElinorOstrom actually looked at how commons are managed, she found they are robust and stable over long time periods, and are a supremely efficient way of managing resources:

pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/ana

The reason Hardin invented an imaginary history of tragic commons was to justify #enclosure: moving things that the public owned and used freely into private ownership.

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Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

The End of Policing Means the End of Capitalism — Some Likely but Rarely Discussed Economic Effects of Abolition

A great deal of discussion about police abolition concerns non-police responses to violent crime, but most police work is unrelated to violent crime. Most, maybe all, of this is economic in nature – designed to keep working people from using productive property to meet their own needs directly – to keep the commons enclosed. This work means the police are inextricably integrated into the economy in surprising ways that are largely undiscussed in the context of abolition, which would trigger monumental, almost unimaginable changes in how we as a society meet our human needs through work. It’s likely that the end of policing would mean the end of capitalism, which suggests that it won’t be easy to achieve given the magnitude of what’s at stake.

#Abolition #PoliceAbolition #Capitalism #Police #ACAB #LosAngeles #Anarchy #Anarchism #Enclosure #Commons #Landlords #TenantsRights #Squatting

chez-risk.in/2023/08/24/the-en

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RD

HOW DID WE GET HERE?
(a thread of threads, quotes, and links)

This is a collection of writings and research concerned with how we got where we are today, which is in fact the story of what has been done *to* us, and what has been *taken from us*.

By "us" we're talking about "the 99%", "workers", "wage slaves", all non-owners of private property, "the poor", unhoused people, indigenous people, even plenty of people who swear by capitalism and identify as "capitalist" yet have no capital of their own and no serious hope of ever having any worth speaking of. In other words almost everyone except for the very few who have had the power to exploit us and shape our lives to serve their agenda. We're going to examine institutions and concepts that have deeply altered our world at all levels, both our external and internal realities.

By "here" we are talking about climate crisis and myriad other environmental catastrophes resulting from hyper-excessive extraction, consumption and waste; a world of rampant inequality, exploitation and oppression, hunger and starvation, genocide and war; a world of fences, walls, gatekeepers, prisons, police, bullshit jobs and criminalized poverty; a world overrun with cars and preventable disease; a world of vanishing biodiversity and blooming fascism; a world where "democracy" results in being led by some of the worst of humanity; a world ruled by an imaginary but all-powerful and single-minded god: Capital.

Our inspiration and structural framework for this survey is this quote from "The Prehistory of Private Property", an important work from political philosopher Karl Widerquist and anthropologist Grant S. McCall:

"After hundreds of millennia in which all humans had direct access to the commons, it took only a few centuries for enclosure, colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization to cut off the vast majority of people on Earth from direct access to the means of economic production and therefore to rob them of the power to say no. It took only a few generations to convince most people that this situation was natural and inevitable. That false lesson needs to be unlearned."

widerquist.com/books-3/#2b

Also recommended: "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy"

widerquist.com/books-3/#4b

#capitalism #colonialism #enclosure #PrivateProperty #state #police #inequality #anthropology #environment #ClimateCrisis #economics

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After hundreds of millennia in which all humans had direct access to the commons, it took only a few centuries for enclosure, colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization to cut off the vast majority of people on Earth from direct access to the means of economic production and therefore to rob them of the power to say no. It took only a few generations to convince most people that this situation was natural and inevitable. That false lesson needs to be unlearned.
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Jason Baird Jackson

Happy to do an #introduction. I am a #folklorist & #anthropologist with a wide range of topical interests. Geographically, I have focused (1990-present) on Oklahoma & the rest of Southeastern North America. More recently, I have also been involved in team research focused in Southwest China (2013-present). Conceptual issues of interest include #heritage, #property, #appropriation, #revitalization, #commons, #enclosure… I also work on scholarly communications reform & #openaccess. @anthropology

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