i could phrase this in a less inflammatory and more careful way with concepts like "discretionary power" and "deprivation" and whatnot but i essentially believe it, and i primarily have in mind individuals, tho obvi the mass extinction events are catastrophic
yea and on my end i’ll say transparently that, as you know, i don’t have a wholesale blueprint, however im skeptical of the market as a mode of analysis, much less *the* mode of analysis, and am far more partial to the categorial analysis of marx when it comes to political economy
which is to say, even if market analysis can come to ‘true’ conclusions in its domain, i find it often to be asking the wrong questions (that is, perfectly serviceable in their own way, but not the most enlightening or generative way to approach a given issue).
yea i figured that’s what you’d say, i do think there’s some slippage between *market analysis* being potentially applicable in any society and markets as a central economic arrangement of the distribution of goods as evaluatively desirable
yea that’s fine but at that point i just don’t really care anymore lmao, like we’re just doing spicy sociology
i’m not strongly like grrrr markets abstractly, and i’ll continue to oppose market anarchists in practice because their ideas are more definite than just that
hm so if we did mythical warehouse communism would that count as exchange and therefore markets because objects are changing hands? like i have no issue with a stipulated definition but if we make it so thin idk how much utility there is
maybe i’m stupid but this one seems kinda confused. like it’s in the the parody section, but is talking about the benefits of network analysis, so is the author trying to say that “market” is actually referring to particular cultural characteristics?
my tl;dr take is that i’m fine with the wide view, but it seems like no matter how diffuse, it’s minimally committed to a few things i’m more critical of, particularly private property and the money-form, and likely wage labor and the law of value