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Replenish's avatar

Thanks for the education on Keynes!

Agreed that central planning will fail and that things will be a struggle in the meantime.

Current policies and events align with post-carbon goals of managed economic contraction and desirable and humane population reduction with them holding the levers on resources and behavior guided by the LTG model and UN SDGs timelines.

Their best efforts to engineer technocracy and social credit rationing in a planned degrowth economy translates into a sort of hunger game neo-feudalism, possibly a return to pre-industrial civilization for the 90+%.

Some voices determine that the scheme involving vaccine immunity by subscription to digital ID to technofeudal society will suffer the same fate as industrial capitalism from diminishing EROEI, resource limits and increasing complexity.

Take a look at Dr. Tim Morgan's Surplus Energy Economics.

At any rate if you're not going to comply, go broke in a ponzi or die fighting one of their strawmen, let me suggest how to position. I see 2 paths to follow.:

1) pursue local self-reliance, mutual aid and food security networks with alternative currencies &/or trade and barter hubs. Invest in real durable goods and commodities, shelf stable food, gardening tools, utility items and reliable sources of defense, water, food, heat and shelter.

2) have a back-up plan for collapse scenario including bug out to rural camp, intentional community or seasonal rental near state or national wildlands.

Survive world collapse dot com has a straightforward explanation with suggestions on how to prepare. I've been working off the list "100 things to disappear in an economic collapse." Get started on your plan and preps!

Thanks for reading! Best wishes!

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Mother Mott's avatar

Lenin was the ultimate practitioner of dialectics and exploitation of contradictions in “capitalist” countries, and the 8-year NEP was his crowning achievement. Four years into the revolution, Soviet Russia was teetering on collapse, economically and politically. Collectivization of ag produced less than before 1917, there was no hard currency, nationalists in Ukraine (among others) agitated for independence, sailors in Kronstadt revolted, etc.

By appearing to soften on ideology, Lenin gained time to restore the economy. Western industries, rope in hand, rushed to set up shop in partnership with the Soviets, western central banks gladly loaned fiat currency and financed infrastructure. At the same time, independence movements were appeased with a sop to federalism by creation of a union of “republics,” the USSR. This was also the period of Operation Trust.

When the objectives had been achieved, the mask was dropped, businesses nationalized, loans defaulted, currency confiscated, etc. The NEP was followed by the inevitable terror and repression, the “liquidation of kulacs as a class,” and the purges of the Great Terror.

No matter what costume he wears, the wolf is always a carnivorous predator.

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