Tag: leftism

Also After The Rev

Cosmetics packaging should all be pretty (and not a fucking pain in the ass to open), I want to do a lot of little things to make everything just experientially nicer for people.

Like pretty shit that makes your day just a little better.

Also cosmetics will all be considered gender neutral after the rev and there will be formulations designed for people who grow beard hair and stuff.

Some notes on how cosmetics should be produced after the rev

There should be many sturdy metal palette design options, that all fit standardized eyeshadow pans, they are designed to be easily swappable and refillable.

Colors should still have cute names to help you remember what they are

Lipsticks should come in refillable tubes

Liquid foundation should be custom blended and come in sanitary pump bottles, creams in refillable compacts, loose powder in refillable jars.

There should be a wide variety of opacity, finishes and so on available

Pencils are sustainable and can remain disposable

Certain products can be grouped together in little “lines” because they have the same aesthetic “pinup”or “goth” or what have you.

No all natural fear mongering woo, but there will be hypoallergenic formulas.

Modular brushes for a variety of mascara formulas

You can choose what bottle your perfume goes into. Perfume bottles should be opaque to best preserve the scent.

Mass production scents would have creative concepts generated by a committee within the collective (basically volunteers) and then those would be voted on on a big website (the most popular however many it’s sensible to produce getting produced, production runs based on number of votes for new scents, last years demand determining old ones along with consumer satisfaction surveys)

There should be a yearly survey asking people what we can improve in terms of product and selection. Consumers also vote on how well various scents matched their stated concept.

Perfumers pet projects may get production if they get a certain number of signatures.

What if we eliminate money but everyone has little ID cards they swipe when they get stuff so we know what stuff is popular where and with whom? What products people buy once and what they buy over and over. This kind of data will be immensely important in a post market economy

I don’t trust authorities that don’t share my best interests to have my best interests at heart.

They’ll tell you that people are too self interested for communism to work, but the truth is we’re too self interested for capitalism to work.  Statism and capitalism depend on a huge amount of altruism if they’re not to be barbaric, and of course we’re not altruistic enough for them not to be.  When you put one person above another, you’ve put those two people’s best interests at odds with each other, the only solution is to make our best interests best served by all helping each other out.

Class is A Material Difference Based On A Social Relation

To abolish the social relation you must abolish the material difference (E.G. You must abolish private property.)  All other axes of oppression are social relations based on some random (often vague) material difference, and the material difference can be left alone (E.G.. You do not need to abolish people having different skintones and hair textures to abolish the social relation of race)

Voting Is Not Consenting To Be Ruled

If a guy has you cornered, gun to your head, which the state does have essentially and asks you whether you want to be punched in the gut AND in the nose or just punched in the gut, you are not agreeing to either.  Making the choice that hurts less doesn’t mean you can’t still fight back 

I mean like spending time you could be spending organizing resistance to the whole “punched in the gut/punched in the gut AND in the nose” choice, trying to get people to vote for “just punched in the gut” is a fucking waste

You’ll also note that the only time we get real concessions is when we get together to demand massive “unrealistic” change.

It’s a very basic bargaining tactic as well, asking for more than you think is possible for you to get, because they expect negotiation, and sometimes you do get the big change you want.

Also I remember thinking of lefty stuff as “You get helped if you need it but you don’t get left the fuck alone” when I was younger

But nah the choice is between not getting left the fuck alone by the electric company and your boss, and having to spend a million hours on hold to connect to the cancellations department of your whatever service and having to navigate and endless hellish bureaucracy to get your last paycheck or not getting left the fuck alone because you’re a participating member of community where your interests are in common rather than opposed.  

Being left alone to do absolutely your own thing is a privilege purchasable only by the very very well to do at the cost of a bunch of other people not getting space to be left the fuck alone at all.

Communism will require more direct, thoughtful participation from the average citizen, but it will also never require you to fax it copies of a year’s worth of water bills or ask you to wait on hold listening to a tinny version of Wind Beneath my Wings for three hours straight