Sebrof [comrade/them, he/him]

It’s disappointing. As more and more moments of truth come out, as WW3 breaks our and/or the empire is in obvious terminal declin,e there’ll be western leftists (even here sadly) who will make some heel turn and support the empire. It’ll be justified by who knows what, about the tough choice of needing to save what little “democracy” America represents even if they don’t “fully support it”. The same predictable cycle on higher and higher levels.

If that happens to me then please hunt me down and shoot me

King today would be casting his vote for the Greg Stillson of yesterday

I would love to talk about this stuff with anyone who is interested. I’ve learned some (linear) production theory along the lines of Sraffa, Pasinetti, Ian Wright etc - essentially representing production relations as a network. If you feel comfortable with some Linear Algebra you can start there. And I have been working on a way to model this production network, but I sometimes spin my wheels and get stuck on tangents. I am thinking of a model along the lines of what Ian Wright has worked on, and either doing a macro model (modeling the explicit emergent relations) or micro model (model the micro interactions and letting the macro structure emerge). Wright has papers for both types of models. The later would be more along the lines of complexity science. The former is closer to diff eqs, and would be easier for applying ideas of control theory to. I think.

There are a series of papers from Political Economists from the new school arguing about whether to start models from the individual interactions, vs the emergent macro conditions (which is more in line with classical political economy).

Later one could add financial networks, etc. to such a model.

But if you’re familiar with linear algebra, diff eqs, and control theory, then you may find the authors above interesting. If anyone wants to brainstorm let me know. I think this stuff is interesting and would love to know more, but I also have to work to pay bills lol