diff --git a/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md b/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md index e69de29bb..22a01e21c 100644 --- a/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md +++ b/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +# DarkFi Philosophy + +## State Civilization and the Democratic Nation + +**State civilization** has a 5000 year history. The origin of civilizations in mesopotamia +experienced a cambrian explosion of various forms. The legacy of state civilization +can be traced back to ancient assyria which was essentially a military dictatorship +that mobilized all of society's resources to wage war and defeat other civilizations, +enslaving them and seizing their wealth. + +Wikipedia defines civilization: + +> Civilizations are organized densely-populated settlements divided into hierarchical +> social classes with a ruling elite and subordinate urban and rural populations. +> +> Civilization concentrates power, extending human control over the rest of nature, +> including over other human beings. + +However this destiny of civilization was not inherent as history teaches us. +This definition is one particular mode of civilization that become prevalent. +During human history there has been plethora forms of civilizations. Our role as +revolutionaries is to reconstruct the civilizational paradigm. + +The **democratic nation** is synonymous with society, and produces all value +include that which the state extracts. Creative enterprise and wealth production +originates in society from small scale business, artisans and inventors, and +anybody driven by intent or ambition to create works. + +Within society, there are multiple coexisting nations which are communities of +people sharing language, history, ethnicity or culture. For example there could +be a nation based on spiritual belief, the nation of women, or a distinct +cultural nation. + +The **nation state** is an extreme variant of the state civilization tendency. +Like early state civilizations, the development of the French nation-state was +more effective at seizing the wealth of society to mobilize in war against the +existing empires of the time. + +Soon after, the remaining systems were forced to +adopt the nation state system, including its ideology of **nationalism**. +It is no mistake that the nation state tends towards nationalism and fascism +including the worst genocides in human history. Nationalism is a blind religion +supplanting religious ideologies weakened by secularism. However nationalism +is separate from patriotism. + +> Loving one's country for which you have struggled and fought over for centuries +> or even millenia as an ethnic community or nation, which you have made your +> homeland in this long struggle, represents a sacred value. +> +> ~ Ocalan's "PKK and Kurdish Question in the 21st century" + +## Modernity and the Subject of Ideology + +**Modernity** was born in the "age of reason" and represents the overturning of +prevailing religious ideas and rejection of tradition in favour of secularization. +Modernity has a mixed legacy which includes alienation, commodity festishism, +scientific positivism and rationalism. + +During this period of modernity, 4 major ideologies developed, each with their +own specific subject as its focus. + +* Liberalism and its subject of the individual. Individuals are atomic units + existing under the state system which guarantees them certain bargains in + the form of laws and rights. +* Communism which focused on the concept of class warfare, and economic justice + through state power. +* Fascism which put the volk or state at the center of society, whereby all + resources would be mobilized to serve the state. +* Anarchism with its critiques of power, and favouring social freedom. + +The particular form of modernity that is predominant can be characterized as +**capitalist modernity**. Capitalism, otherwise referred to by others as +corporatism can be likened to a religion, whereby a particular elite class +having no ideology except self profit uses the means of the state to protect +its own interests and extract the wealth of society through nefarious means. +In some ways, it is a parasite on the state. + +**Agorist free markets** is the democratic tendency of economy. The word +'economy' derives from the Ancient Greek 'oikonomos' which means household +management. Economy was during ancient periods connected with nature, the +role of motherhood, life and freedom. It was believed that wealth derived +from the quality of our lived our environments. The Kurds use the feminine +word 'mal' to refer to the house, while the masculine variant refers to +actual property. Later during the Roman period, economy came to be +understood as the accumulation of property in the form of number of slaves +owned, amount of land seized or the quantity of money. + +The subject of our ideology is the moral and political society. Society exists +within a morality and a politics. Here we use politics to refer not to +red team vs blue team, but instead all social activity concerned with +our security, necessity and life. A society can only be free when it has +its own morality and politics. The state seeks to keep society weak by +depriving it of morality and replacing society's politics with statecraft. + +## The Extinction of Humanity + +During the 20th century, liberals, communists and fascists vyed for state power +each promising a new form of society. State power existed with these external +ideological justifications. + +With the end of the soviet union, and the end of history (according to liberalism), +state power morphed into pure domination and profit. The system simply become +a managerial form of raw power over society without purpose or aim. +Wars such as Iraq were invented by neoliberals to breathe a new purpose into society. +Indeed there is no more effective means to support despotism than war. + +Today the military industrial complex has grown into a gigantic leviathan that +threatens the world driving economies into an ever greater spiral of desperation. +The push the development of automated weapons, aerial drones and +[ninja missiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire#AGM-114R9X) +that eliminate all space for human resistance against tyranny. + +Meanwhile +[social credit scoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System) +is being introduced as CBDCs with incentivization schemes such as UBI. +Such systems will give more effective means for the seizure of wealth by +the state from society, centralizing economic power within an already +deeply corrupt elite class. + +Liberal ideologies have made people indifferent to their own situation, turning +society inwards focused on social media, unable to organize together to +oppose rising authoritarianism. Liberalism is essentially a tendency towards +extinction or death. + +## Nature, Life, Freedom + +**Nature** is the center of spiritual belief. Humanity is an aspect of nature. +Nature is more than the number of trees. It is the going up, the ascending of life. +Through struggle, we overcome obstacles, becoming harder and stronger along the way. +This growth makes us more human, and closer with nature. + +People naturally feel an empathy with nature such as when an animal is injured, or +generous feelings towards the young of any species. This feeling was put in us by +evolution. We feel an attachment and empathy towards our lived environment, and +want to see it improve. This feeling is mother nature speaking through us. +The more in touch we are with this deeper feeling, the more free we are since we +are able to develop as higher human beings. + +Freedom does not mean the ability to be without constraint or enact any wild fantasy +at a moment's notice. Freedom means direct conscious action with power that makes +us ascend upwards. Nature is full of interwoven threads of organisms vying for influence +or power, with time doing an ordered dance punctuated by inflection points of change. +It is during those moments that our ability of foresight and prescience allow us +to deeply affect events along alternative trajectories. + +## Re-Evaluating Anarchism + +Anarchists had the correct critique & analysis of power. In particular seeing that +the nation state would grow into a monster that would consume society. +However they were the least equipped of all the other ideologies during modernity +to enact their vision and put their ideas into practice. + +* They fell victim to the same positivist forces that they claimed to be fighting + against. +* They lacked a coherent vision, and had little strategy or roadmap for how + the revolution would happen. +* Their utopian demand that the state must be eliminated immediately and at all + costs meant they were not able to plan how that would happen. +* Their opposition to all forms of authority, even legitimate leadership meant + they were ineffective at organizing revolutionary forces. + +## Revolutionary Objectives + +* Our movement is primarily a spiritual one. One cannot understand christianity + by studying its system of churches, since primarily it is a body of teachings. + Likewise the core of our movement is in our philosophy, ideas and concepts, + which then inform our ideas on governance and economics. +* We must build a strong intellectual fabric that innocuates us and fosters + resilience, as well as equipping us with the means to be effective in our work. +* There are two legacies in technology. One informed by state civilization, + and the other by society. The technology we create is to solve problems that + society and aligned communities have. + + +