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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by thinkingemote on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:15AM (#17237290)
Marx is vague and rightly so. I think the situationists took a similar approach, which is also their main criticism. They do not describe what the utopia would be not really the steps, they instead say that it's a state that occurs when people live according to their desires. That to me sounds like "do what thou wilt" where the task is to find out what our desire, our will is.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by TeMPOraL on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:19AM (#17237317)
Interestingly, I remember 'Eliezer having some good insights about "how to build an utopia" in his "fun theory sequence". I read it years ago, but I started re-reading it last weekend:

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Fun_Theory_Sequence

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by jacques_chester on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:57AM (#17237586)
If Kołakowski is to be believed, Marx's view of the post-revolutionary world has a somewhat mystical flavour stemming mostly from Hegel. It is the immediate roots in Hegelian philosophy that makes it, in practical terms, wishy-washy.

What has always tied Marxism in knots has been the tension between waiting for the inexorable laws of history on the one hand (and sometimes trying to give them a hurry up) versus on the other hand agitating for reforms. The former see the latter as delaying the revolution. The latter see the former as something between dreamers and jerks.

I think that history, having been somewhat lawless after all, makes the reformers look better.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by sincerely on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:59PM (#17241464)
Do you think that the more left-accelerationist factions have any meaningful influence compared to more reformist organizations like the DSA? Is it different outside the states?
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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by jacques_chester on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:52PM (#17243529)
I am not qualified to say.
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