So in this comment, and anything in response to it, when I say "government", I mean the entities I and other anarchists typically call "the State". I reserve the word "state" in this comment for its definition in the theory of mathematical control systems.
I study feedback control theory, and many aspects of the government can absolutely be analyzed as feedback systems. For example, the "pendulum" effect when the government gives "too many" or "too few" breadcrumbs to proletarians is an example of self-regulating behavior based on state feedback.
My objections to the existence of governments are that:
The objective governments use to calibrate their self-regulation is biased in favor of the capitalist class. Governments are basically not controllable at all from a working class perspective. Frankly...most governments have devised crappy political systems. From a dynamical systems perspective...most world governments work on crappy control algorithms, even to achieve capitalist goals.
Even if the state of the government was controllable or partially controllable from a working class perspective, the government is categorically unable to achieve, and practically unable to approximate, liberatory outputs. I.e., the government structurally cannot force anarchism to happen, even if it wanted to.
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Moisterize me, moisterize me
Is it not a self-regulating system though?
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So in this comment, and anything in response to it, when I say "government", I mean the entities I and other anarchists typically call "the State". I reserve the word "state" in this comment for its definition in the theory of mathematical control systems.
I study feedback control theory, and many aspects of the government can absolutely be analyzed as feedback systems. For example, the "pendulum" effect when the government gives "too many" or "too few" breadcrumbs to proletarians is an example of self-regulating behavior based on state feedback.
My objections to the existence of governments are that:
The objective governments use to calibrate their self-regulation is biased in favor of the capitalist class. Governments are basically not controllable at all from a working class perspective. Frankly...most governments have devised crappy political systems. From a dynamical systems perspective...most world governments work on crappy control algorithms, even to achieve capitalist goals.
Even if the state of the government was controllable or partially controllable from a working class perspective, the government is categorically unable to achieve, and practically unable to approximate, liberatory outputs. I.e., the government structurally cannot force anarchism to happen, even if it wanted to.
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