I like that she left in the parts where she got stuck and had to backtrack to recover the narrative. It's charming, and it demystifies the craft of the video essay a little.

@Jane-oz7pp

2 жыл бұрын

it felt like a conversation I would have with friends or coworkers when I'm having to go back and flesh out the parts that I used too much jargon in. I like it

@Haarization

2 жыл бұрын

came to the comments section to say this. It is refreshing to hear a slight stutter or a backtrack (I mostly consume video essays in audio only). Hearing someone make a slight mistake or reword a phrase actually keeps me engaged because my ears are totally unaccustomed to that mode of speech.

Expecting nobody to see this, but I figured I'd share my story. I'm a young adult who still lives with my father, who has been a communist for as long as I can remember. My family as a whole have always believed in the concepts espoused in this video, and though we only have maybe 2 houses between the family, we let everyone in. It was quite a common thing growing up to have 9-10 people who were friends or neighbors comfortably sleeping in our 3 bedroom house (my grandfather bought it after the war, things were much cheaper then LMAO) because they couldnt make rent that month, or they had had an accident etc etc. Nowadays, we're still hosting people (including myself) rent-free, so long as people help out with the household chores, cook, walk the dog, and pitch in with repairs or building projects we have (we built two extra bedrooms in our tiny back garden last year in place of our shed, with the help of several people staying over.) Currently staying in our house, too, is my younger cousin. He's 14, and his parents are renovating their house. The whole vibe of the house scares him when its unfinished, so he's staying with us for the time being. He wouldnt have to pay rent even if we were the kind to ask for it - and yet he still helps around the house with jobs and things because *that's just something people do*. He doesnt have to be paid money to clean his room or anything like that. He just does it, because he sees that its messy and he cleans it up. Because that's how he's been raised. I'm in college now, studying art. Home is such an important and inspiring thing for me, that I cant help pierce through everything I do with a certain theme of this community we've built. Although mental health problems run in our family, everyone is, for the most part, genuinely deeply happy. It's almost as if giving and community are an integral part of human nature that we feel deprived without?

@Natalie-kl3er

2 жыл бұрын

that sounds like a really wonderful and inspiring environment, thank you so much for sharing!

@melanieg.9092

Жыл бұрын

I also thank you for sharing! Haven't started the video but I pretty much experienced the opposite in my grandparents home. They built the house themselves, used to welcome family but were always scared to have nonfamily here. Maybe because they were deemed too eastern european after the war and wanted to keep their dostance...

@arich20

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing.

@TheGLaDOSvideoCore

Жыл бұрын

key phrase, how he's been raised. your 14 year old cousin is growing into a great individual, and was granted such an opportunity by something as simple as the empathy of a good family. in an ideal society everyone would be raised in such a way and therefore be kind and civil people. but to enter that society we must also give equal attention to rehabilitation during its transitionary period. what the right and especially neoliberals don't understand is that some (most) people weren't fortunate enough to have decent childhoods. some were neglected and abused, many were even indoctrinated or forcefully brainwashed. it took me years to fully unlearn the racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia of my southern american family. i was an anti-sjw "good ol boy" during gamergate now i am a post-gender antifascist anarcho-communist. but the important point is that when i was indoctrinated into the right, i was a child. i could not consent to the massive bombardment of misinformation and propaganda that was being shoved into my vulnerable developing young mind. rehabilitation is equally as important as how someone is raised and we must never forget that most people especially young ones are not lost causes. sorry for the only semi related tangent just wanted to get it out there

@canonicallykayfabe

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGLaDOSvideoCore Oh no I totally agree with u. I grew up with my dad cuz my mother was... not the best, and I have trauma sourced from outside the house that fucked me over for a very long time (and still now). Its very difficult to overstate how much of an affect that that has on a person. I channelled a lot of the issues with my mom into being argumentative and combative on everything, having "evidence" of everything, having to be logically minded about every decision and never knowing how to handle emotions. In a way , you could say my father's was my safe space. But for years, while far from fash, I was definitely the sort of libertarian who believed that safe spaces and the like were the pursuit of idiots and snowflakes. And having worked through the trauma I had, I can safely say that I put most of that down to pure resentment. "I could never be happy if I wanted to stay soft. How could that ever work for society??" I think the same goes for a lot of conservatives. From what I've heard growing up like that seems like a trauma in itself. I think it'd be totally natural to have the same views I did for a while after being raised by a family like that. On my cousin, he's good for the takes. He educates himself and generally has good takes on things like the black lives matter movement and women's rights (his current habit of getting enraged over everything that comes out of Andrew Tate's foul mouth is particularly funny) but I think he still feels as though lgbtq stuff is "too complicated" (which I suppose it is sometimes). Hes getting to grips with it now, but he did say some pretty inflammatory shit in the past. You just need to work through it. I dont think that's something we're great at on the left, just working through things. The online urge to strip away nuance and repost succinct ideas rather than well thought out ones I suppose.

I don't think you touched on it, but having a well thought out public transportation system that you don't have to look at a schedule for and operates in rural areas so that car ownership/usage is not a necessity would be 10/10. And cities built for pedestrians and people on bikes instead of cars.

@TheJakeL152

2 жыл бұрын

this is so important. i grew up in a city with really good public transit and bike lanes, and moved to a city with garbage public transit. it makes it impossible to get around, really limits job opportunities, which makes it harder to buy a car lmao. thanks big oil

@IQtichenor

2 жыл бұрын

This is a great point. It's such a tangible, necessary, radical change, and sometimes it *feels* like the revolution could happen tomorrow, and then you look around and see that no one can get anywhere without mass production and consumption of fossil fuels through individualized vehicles. Feels like being able to get from any community to the another, let alone one country or planet to another, through mass public transit is a necessary endgame.

@Nevarek_

2 жыл бұрын

deleting suburbs would precipitate the need for better public transportation and infrastructure and reduce the need for personal car ownership one can dream, though

@smileyp4535

2 жыл бұрын

Housing, healthcare, education, and transportation

@may72612

2 жыл бұрын

Omg yesssss

I have literally thought about this so many times, leftists get so caught up in pointing out why capitalism sucks that we rarely talk about the world we want to build. I hope this becomes a larger trend

@johannageisel5390

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, though, if you start talking about what you want the world to be like, all the assholes come out of the woodwork and tell you why "this won't work" and then you have to spend ages to explain to them it only doesn't work in their minds, because they are still thinking within the capitalist box.

@MiaaaaaChan

2 жыл бұрын

@@johannageisel5390 We need to spend less time responding to assholes anyways and just focus on formulating our agenda

@edmaldonado8207

2 жыл бұрын

@@MiaaaaaChan Youre gonna find opposition outside of youtube comments. If youre unable to adequately defend your positions then i wish you all luck if you ever get your agenda into the mainstream.

@MiaaaaaChan

2 жыл бұрын

@@edmaldonado8207 This isn't about arguing with people, this is about public messaging. Never take the defensive is the tactic by which the right had grown so much

@edmaldonado8207

2 жыл бұрын

@@MiaaaaaChan I understand that but you're inevitably going to receive scrutiny, even with moderates or apolitical people, not just people on the right. So its not enough to have public messaging, you need to be able to defend your positions as well as explain why your positions are better than the alternative. This is especially true within a democracy.

"You are probably living in the Imperial Core" *laughs desperately in Brazilian* Love your work, Sophie, wish you all the good stuff. Peace among ourselves, war to the tyrants!

@ximenatapia8126

9 ай бұрын

jajajaja laughing very much so in peruvian.

I love how you didn't mention the dinosaur comrades on mars to make it a little more believable for the earthlings. They will see and understand when their time has come.

I read an interesting thing earlier today about how labour isn't a commodity, and isn't driven by the profit motive because if it was labour would be almost constantly on strike to drive up scarcity, and that's obviously not what's happening, and never could be. So we're already working for something other than pure profit: we're clearly working to get things done, to meet our collective human needs. I don't understand why people think communism wouldn't work. It already is, but capitalism is exploiting it for profit. As to fast food, I used to work in fast food. And even if societally we were looked down on I had some coworkers who took pride in how they treated customers well, getting their food and coffee so quickly, and putting a smile on their faces. These coworkers weren't motivated by profit, since we all made the same shitty wage that barely covered our needs, they were motivated by something else, a desire to help and be kind in whatever way they could, they were motivated by humanity. I often think of them, and what kind of world we could have if we recognized that as a driver of society.

@TheJakeL152

2 жыл бұрын

there are absolutely people that just like some of those jobs. when i was a cashier at a grocery store, i had one coworker who came out of retirement to work there just because he was bored and didnt have anything to do around the house. had another coworker who must have been at least 78, i think she just liked being a cashier because it was a good opportunity to socialize with a lot of people.

@williancruz9657

2 жыл бұрын

Right sentiment but cringe take. People don't strike all the time because they're goonna run oout of food.

@TheJakeL152

2 жыл бұрын

@@williancruz9657 you're cringe

@karkatvantass3730

2 жыл бұрын

I'm one of those people that actually likes doing their shitty wage job. Pizza delivery driver. Ya know, getting to be the person to give the customer their food. And while some customers can be rude, that's on the rarer end. I just meet a lot of nice people, get to hear kids screaming "pizza!" on the other side of the door, pet some dogs and even a kitten once! I love just relaxing while I'm driving too. It's definitely stressful sometimes, but even then I love the rush moments. In a world where money isn't a thing and I could do whatever, pizza delivery would still be something I wanna do (as well as having time to do some other jobs I'm interested in)!

@TheJakeL152

2 жыл бұрын

@@karkatvantass3730 that's based as hell you kick ass

Your comments on big/little system medicine are interesting because they aren't speculation at all. There's already a country which runs their medical system with a ton of small, local professionals for everyday problems and a few large, systematized hospitals for everything they can't handle. That country is Cuba. They have the best public health statistics in their entire region, it isn't close, their healthcare expenditures are a fraction of what they are in the US, and they have the time and resources to do things like invent their own COVID vaccine to distribute to literally everyone in the country just as fast as the capitalist pharmaceutical companies did it because they aren't wasting resources on all the garbage we do. Not saying Cuba is paradise (though that has more to do with the effects of living under decades of US blockade and recovery from the effects of the literally fascist regime Castro toppled than any fundamental flaws in their ideology), but the fact that they aren't a paradise and are still better than the entire imperial core at this is a damning indictment of our entire system.

@Emery_Pallas

Жыл бұрын

Additionally, material conditions are important to Cuba’s healthcare industry (or lack there of). Basically the lack of resources due to trade embargoes result in Cuban healthcare having to be very efficient in medicine, so a lot of the focus becomes on preemptive measures.

this is such an important video that i will be sharing with all of my liberal friends and family. one small nitpick. i hate to ask, but could we get a source list? or a open doc file with all of the books mentioned so that we could open it and find them there easily. it's fine if you ignore this message. regardless thank you very much. have a good day!

@hamstergal9164

2 жыл бұрын

I second this!

@SophiefromMars

2 жыл бұрын

Added

It's really fun to hear this presented as a *totally real* society that already overcame similar problems, it just adds a very pleasant grain of hope to it all, which I sorely needed I think. As someone who has just recently had to cave to the pressure to beg for employment for money to afford hrt, the explanation of big and small systems, particularly relating to healthcare and drugs, was incredibly uplifting to think about. Hopefully soon, without the stress of my body stubbornly poisoning itself with testosterone, I'll have the energy to help work and fight and dream to see such a beautiful world around me. ❤️❤️❤️

@astralax

2 жыл бұрын

The Culture series of sci-fi novels by Iain M Banks are a similar tonic. They prominently feature a society that is fully automatic luxury gay space communism.

@Auburnleavesfall

2 жыл бұрын

@@astralax Ooh thank you!

@noizepusher7594

10 ай бұрын

Yeah! The backstory of how this society rose up from a bunch of tiny protest camps eventually starving out the roots of the capitalist systems then eventually merging together like mycelium roots into one interlocked system was awesome!

This is incredibly utopian And that's not just okay, but a good thing. We need unconditionally hopeful ideas that can work as targets, and as reminders of a better reality so we don't fall into despair. Great another banger video Soph!

@somefuckstolemynick

8 ай бұрын

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. We've tried to implement idealistic systems before, it always ends in disaster. We need unconditionally realistic and pragmatic ideas.

I always find it so odd when someone gets angry at a KZreadr for doing a utopianism when we're talking about the kind of worlds we'd like to live in. The whole point of the thought experiment is to think about what would be amazing, and then making compromises with reality. If someone's response to your thought experiment is that's unrealistic, they've missed the fucking point and they've done so in the absolutely most annoying way because they just want to nitpick on other people's ideas

@kas6223

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! It’s a really useful approach

@infra_Gray

2 жыл бұрын

It's not nitpicking to demand thought-leaders and influencers be more honest and accurate about the visions they're presenting. I don't understand why do utopianism and call yourself a communist. Those things are literally the opposite. That's the only problem. I love fiction and fantasy. It's separate from my politics.

@michimatsch5862

2 жыл бұрын

@@infra_Gray It's about knowing what your ideal society would look like. Then you structure your poltical actions around that. It's a starting point for figuring out what you need to do. As with every thought experiment, some will find it useful, others will not.

@phangkuanhoong7967

2 жыл бұрын

@@infra_Gray why are utopianism and communism mutually exclusive? honest question.

@infra_Gray

2 жыл бұрын

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence." - Marx Communists spent a century floundering in idealism/utopianism. and only upon discovering dialectical/historical materialism were we able to chart a path towards a better society and change the world. Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific explains this stuff really well

also - I found out about that Dalston immigration raid from your twitter, ended up sitting outside the station for arrestee support till 4 am :)

@SophiefromMars

2 жыл бұрын

That's really cool!

@khazermashkes2316

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I loved how you went raw and unedited here. Combined with your voice training, this video has the vibe of a teacher giving storytime to children, inviting us to use our imaginations. Preserving or reviving childlike wonder is one of the beautiful things about anarchism and I appreciate you brought that here.

The easiest way to describe the fundamental flaw in policing is that they don't "protect" property, they prevent people from accessing unused resources in order to enforce social hierarchy.

a whole video about the socio-economics of the witch hunts would be awesome

"systems can change to accommodate human needs; human needs cannot change to accommodate systems." - ancient martian wisdom

I like this freeflowing, "unedited" kind of video. Keep 'em coming, Sophie! _Finally we have an answer to Bowie's question, "is there life on Mars?", and the answer is yes! And it's Communist!_ 😄 Slime World is cool, but I think Mars is cooler, seems a bit _free-er_ and more laid back.

@jahipalmer8782

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. The parts where she paused to compose herself or had to start a line again reminded me of how much work video essayist put into their craft.

Between this video and Mildred’s Slime World video I like this video more. I like how Sophie explain what Mars is like using examples and also contrasted it to how Earth is right now. Mildred’s video is great it is just that for me I like Sophie’s a lot more.

absolutely love this and we 1000% need more communists describing in positive terms what we want. i did a whole "how to abolish police" video !!

@infra_Gray

2 жыл бұрын

I like Caleb Maupin on positive terms. He's practical, focused, and appeals to broad people

@clairrorist9157

2 жыл бұрын

@@infra_Gray please be joking

this video brought tears to my eyes. it's a simply stated, uncompromising embrace of the basic truth of our potential as human beings to be free and do good. and when you have to go about the world pretending like that isn't true, having it stated this succinctly feels like a release of stress almost. thanks for this

"Getting the graeb from beyond the grave, 24/7" my girl that shit is dark 🤣

I once lived in a small cave community and it was so easy to see that when something needed doing, it would be done. We had a toilet for example, that was a hole in the ground to shit in. When it was full, someone needed to cover it and dig a new hole. Even though that was a very uncomfortable thing to do, we all knew it needed doing, so it always got done. Having lived that way I feel very disconnected from the rest of society now. I know there are different ways to do things, and I know poverty doesn't need to exist. But we're all stuck in a capitalist hellscape because most can't see a better way. I hope to see that change within my lifetime.

We could learn a lot from Mars! Us fellow Earthling should make manifestos like this, as well as art, that illustrate the wonderful futures we can achieve free of oppression, borders, and the state.

So glad I joined your patreon!!! THANK YOU for making this, and for getting me to check out Slime World. Thank you for hope. Thank you for your work. Can't wait for the things you have described you're going to be making soon!

Love this, but I’d like to give some suggestions, questions, and compliments from Venus ;) For one, love the abolishing of work culture while allowing structured work to exist. Not only is it useful for safety, but for people like me, who are autistic and need structure while not being constrained by work culture. Farming animals CAN be ethical and sustainable, even mutually beneficial with the animal and ecosystem, the problem is mass producing meat. In Venus, we practice permaculture-esque methods, which often include farming livestock in a way that helps keep the garden healthy and the animals happy, and we only raise as many as we need since livestock are only raised on a community basis. Because of this, many communities still choose only ethical hunting of veganism if they find it more convenient or appealing while still allowing people to enjoy meat without waste or destroying the environment. On Venus, we also have a prominent skill-share culture. This is basically when people within a community share knowledge and space in their specialized areas so that their role in the community is never left completely empty and no one can hold power with their contributions. People are actively encouraged to offer skill shares with the community, often times just basic knowledge like what to do if someone has a broken bone or basic dog training tips that give everyone a broad range of skills that they can apply. We also give more autonomy to the youth. They are allowed much more priminance in community discussion making from a much younger age than on earth, where they are free to share their opinions. Since they will likely have to live longest with the decisions, we want their input and openness even if we don’t always follow it. It can also help us address problems we may not see as adults earlier on, before it becomes a defining trait of the generation. I’d also like to hear more about how problems of bigotry on mars were solved compared to how we did it on Venus and how it could apply to earth.

@Natalie-kl3er

2 жыл бұрын

lovely contributions!

Wow. I actually love the idea of all advertising being educational or PSAs rather than just "buy this shit instead of that shit!"

Extemporaneous Communism Explainer is a side hustle we ALL need to pursue on Earth; but GOOD LORD, WOMAN: you've already set such a high standard! Thanks for the hope, and the push.

@bdz_4206

2 жыл бұрын

Side hustle, that is a perspective right there! Because remember, if we pull it off everyone wins in perpetuity, even the rich people would see their life improve!

"Debt is the chain that binds the world" so good keep up the good work sophie

Love this! Would be interested to hear more of how issues like racism, queerphobia and sexism were eliminated

Lovely Martian Help-Talk. Sophie is indeed divine wisdom.

I still have questions. What if the hotrod martians decide they don't want to wait for the mediator, and just take a bunch of the metal for themselves while mediation is still taking place? What if a charismatic advocate rallies enough advocates to their side that they manage to turn the big system of advocates into a state? Basically, what if someone takes advantage of the weak spots in these systems? How is that avoided? What are the consequences? Who carries them out?

I really enjoy these types of videos. Dunking on people is fun but ultimately useless without counter proposals and ideas

I just got the same sense of lesbian yearning I get for fictional women but for a society. How am I queer for a society wtf? Also the point about doing many jobs at different points in your life is really such a big one for me. I'm studying game design, but... but I also want to be a teacher! And I'd love to do manual labor like construction at some point in my life!! And so many more I can't remember. But I just don't think I'll have the time for that in my life at the moment. It takes too long and is too financially risky to change carer like that. Oh well! I guess that's why I'm a leftist. Even if I don't get to live in that world, hopefully I help build it. Brick by bloody brick lol

@nickpoenisch4563

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I was lucky enough to get two degrees in two radically different fields (animation and dental hygiene) and I don't feel like either was a mistake, and I really wish we had a society that allowed more freedom to learn and do other jobs

I want to be smart and say something useful, but honestly I just need to say that the amount of joy the giggle after "martian dudes rock" gave me will carry me forward FOR DAYS

Oohhhh I just got the "Red Planet" connection as you said it right at the end in a *very* obvious fashion.

i love this. thank you for making this. i've been really struggling recently with hopelessness in the face of all the terrible shit going on, and this was such a balm. i have to go catch thought slime's now!!

There's one area where I don't feel convinced by this and similar visions - unpleasant forms of work. The idea that you GET to reture early if you do a hard/unpleasant job means that there has to be a system forcing people to keep working, which seems like it's just kicking the can down the road. I think we need a solution that doesn't involve forcing work on anyone.

i love this. thank you for making this

Thank you, Sophie. I've been watching this video when I've been having the hardest time, and it makes me feel actual hope and even optimism. Peace and power to you 💕

This is SPECTACULAR. More of this everywhere please. Brilliant.

I live behind a Little League baseball field and sometimes I watch kids play baseball. I don't have any kids but they're having a lot of fun. It's fun to cheer for people. It's fun to raise each other. I guess, in a perfect world, everyone who wants to play baseball gets to and everyone who just wants to cheer gets to as well.

Such a good practice to turn into a trend. We really need more of this.

Thank you for making these videos! You are a lovely human being... er, I mean Martian :o)

This is a fantastic video and such a cool project! I hope more people make videos like it. I felt especially inspired by your descriptions of big and small systems - taking into account the idea that there are things that benefit from that bigger level of systemic organization without the fatalistic “this will drift into more and more control” perspective. A set of systems that allow for things like building codes and research doctors, while also allowing for smaller-scale organization sounds amazing.

Such a great video Sophie!

I hate when people say "but who will do all the crap jobs", not only because it implies that some jobs are "better" in some way than others, but also ignores the fact that there are people who enjoy doing work like sewage management and unblocking drains, jobs that are very important.

@Natalie-kl3er

2 жыл бұрын

it also reveals that they believe that masses of people must simply be victims of society for it to function, forced to do unpleasant labour. very sad picture of the world

@AbdallahTeach

Жыл бұрын

people would do those sewage jobs if they actually lived a dignified life outside of it. give them protective gear, good showers and shampoos. If i lived in a better world, i would've worked as a social worker as long as i got education, healthcare, housing and food.

I'm so glad you exist in the world making videos, comrade. It improves my day to know it. :)

Excellent video and I thoroughly agree that more conversations about what we want our world to look like benefit us all. It is my favorite passtime, both and alone and with friends and it was great to hear your musings. Peace and love!

love this series, thank you for sharing!

Always nice to hear from Sophie

This is such a beautifully uplifting video thank you!

Wow i never realised how much i wanted to live on Mars before this, thanks for the video

The music choice made me keep thinking you were going to introduce a semi sentient animal class on Mars that you use for battle

thank you for this video; whenever i feel sad about our future, i watch and remember what i'm fighting for :)

Lovely video, thank you Sophie

thanks for the simple breakdown vid as well as all of the book recs!

This is probably the coolest thing I've ever heard

So inspiring! Absolutely wonderful seeing videos like this! ♥

@BarbarianGod

2 жыл бұрын

we really need more of this!

i love this, thank ❤ :3

This was v uplifting ty

Yeah. More often than not what automation ends up being used for is capital taking a bigger chunk of production as profit. This goes all the way back to the beginning of industrialization: with a powered-loom a worker can produce in a day amounts of cloth it would have taken a month to produce previously, but they were paid a fraction of the old piece-work price of the putting-out system. The rest of that value is then claimed by the capitalist through the argument that the expense of installing the machine(done by other workers) and centralizing the work(mostly done by the state through enclosures and the destruction of villages), and the relative "ease"(the worker is working EVEN HARDER under MORE dangerous conditions than before, as part of the increased productivity) of the work, justifies the massively larger cut they're taking.

Your ideas of medical systems are great!

Omg, that calendar, I love iiiiit.

I really like this video. I appreciate the unedited nature of the video. 🛸

I'm impressed martian people collectively agreed to move past having 69 genders.

I think “Open Veins of Latin America” by Eduardo Galeano is good reading for the concept of how the periphery is affected by imperialism

this is great!

I am so hear for the rant that was cut. I'd happily listen to Sophie rant for an hour, or more, about the moving of the industrial base.

Shout out to Mars, the RED planet

thank you so much for making this!! i've been really struggling with doomerism lately, and I've been thinking more and more that spending a bit more our general leftist energy thinking about how we can build better systems, might be a lot healthier than the current hyperfocus on problematic individuals

@wormisjunkd

2 жыл бұрын

noncompete and djmuel both have fairly recent videos on the importance of defeating doomerism with revolutionary optimism if you’re interested. definitely helped mend my perspective a little :)

@rubys.shibanigans

Жыл бұрын

I hope you don't mind if I mention a podcast I've been listening to, called Srsly Wrong. It's been really good to listen to ideas of a better society and a more optimistic outlook on how things could be. Plus I like the comedy skits they do to drive in a point or poke fun at some capitalist assumptions and ideas. I just thought I'd give them some exposure because I love their work and it's helped me not feel like I'm in a black pit of despair... Which is easy to do tbh. They have a pretty big catalog and some guests on occasionally. I really hope to find more content like this so I hope if anyone has good ones feel free to suggest them to me.

Fantastic Video!!

Communism is not particularly complex. No things over people. Your value come from what you do and who you are, not from things (whatever they are, money or a stick that has a religious significance). Old socialists simply saw this as a rational way of living.

@edmaldonado8207

2 жыл бұрын

How would that work?

@enfercesttout

2 жыл бұрын

@@edmaldonado8207 What part exactly escapes your imagination? No thing (you have or is on you) should matter insofar as someone else making a action that effects your life. In the morning, you wake up, you are going to do whatever you do; stop by the coffee dispenser, person there also woke up and came here, and now fills your cup because you are a human being, like herself. Realistically, that person also knows you at least, have seen you around before and has an idea about what you do after you get your morning coffee. So, there is a tacit contract that each person treats others as persons; rather than owners of money bills or religious icons, or object of hatred. Tho, at the very base that person doesn't know anything about you other than that you asked for coffee, let's say this is your first day in the collective. And only condition to this is your actions not destroying it for others. Obviously, i am not describing architecture or flow of goods here, but these don't depend on the form of communism. You can fill it in however you like. Plus, we already live most of our non commercial lives like this.

This is fucking great, thanks Soph

Good video! I can really hear the effects of your voice training, keep it up 👍🏽

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This video has gotten closer to successfully convincing my friends to make content with me than my years of trying lol

The colour pallet of the Gameboy implies that the a & b buttons are udders and I dunno how I feel about it.

@davyhotch

2 жыл бұрын

Martian Gameboys look like ExistenZ

This video was beautiful, thank you. I wasn't super into Mildred's ideal society, but yours is one that I would live in without a second thought.

god i love the bean that makes us go fast

Wooo!

This is the first time I realisethe decal is a window 🤦🏽‍♂️ Also great video, we need to describe the futures we want more than the ones we want to avoid.

This video is really hopeful. It's very nice to see

Also, I really like the big system/small system distinction

+1 for the sex workers, tofu is underrated, also I like the unedited bits and it seems like you had a lot of fun recording this one stuff I'd like to hear more about: - disabilities and labor, labor regulations, accommodations - childcare, eldercare, and education systems - preventing states (including foreign ones) or organized groups from using force as coercion, lawful community protection - restorative justice, non-monetary restitution, prison abolition, dealing with aggression and violence

If you want the hobbitcore version of this red William Morris' News From Nowhere, it's from the nineteenth century and I love it.

Beautiful

Obsessed with this video thank u

Very cool!

This was a nice video and gave me new ideas to work with. I have to ask, though, how do Martians defend their communities from those who commit violent acts

"Alien-Kropotkin" XD Homestuck, as always, shows us the way u_u u_u

The idea of big systems and little systems sounds interesting. I'd like to hear more on how they relate to each other on Mars.

On Mars, there is only one pokemon game per generation

i love this exercise, I'm going to try to do something similar!

@95kmah32

2 жыл бұрын

Yes,please!

Watching this again right now because you're amazing. I do like your thoughts.

Yoooooo sick as hell

Thanks for talking about this, we can make Mars here on Earth, but in a way that works for our different material conditions.

bravo!!!!!!!!!!! what a fantasticx video infinite blessings comrade!

I just started the video, and realized I need to go get ready for work soon but I think if I leave that hurts the engagement so I want to comment to demostrate my worth to the algorithm before I finish this video tomorrow or this weekend. I am engaged. Love your work. I appreciate the way you mention utopian thinking as useful to give people an idea of what things could be like. - Just along those lines I wanted to give a couple Suggestions I love. The Book From What is to What If is probably the most uplifting piece of radical analysis I've ever read, and its great at showing examples of things like better education and radical activism which could be expanded. I saw a review claim that "whatever is on your reading list, this is more important" and I sorta picked it up just based on testing that person's review and they had a point. I'd also love to shoutout SRSLY Wrong as a FANTASTIC Utopian leftist comedy podcast. They have great interviews with some really guests. Their episodes on "Library Socialism" are excellent, and I can't stress enough how much joy their episode on Mr. Rogers brings me. I think their episode on Homelessness is astounding. The Revolution Will be Hilarious. Their catalogue is years of gold and I hope more folks embrace sweetie pie socialism.

@95kmah32

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the podcast recommendation!

I feel like the idea that people would still do sex work if there was no profit incentive is kinda evidenced by all the people who already do sex work without making profit