http://www.revleft.com/vb/given-stat...html?p=2303704 At that point, I recall an old response of mine [...] and hereby include in the definition of barbarism the objective necessity of discounting of majority action and the "democratic principle" (Bordiga) in favour of minority- and authority-driven coordinated action resorting to: 1) Economy-wide expropriations (and maybe eminent domain for compensating a select few political friendlies) 2) Other economy-wide "socialist" accumulations by dispossession (like real wage depression across the board and scrapping programs for the elderly, so all that talk about inter-generational economic conflict comes to the fore) 3) Absolute directive planning with technology measuring all inputs and input constraints, but both being the privy of a select few at the top politically 4) Centralization of allocation of direct production materials, labour time (so as to minimize currency black markets), capital equipment, etc. 5) Extensive use of corvee labour and other forms of conscripted labour (to succeed discipline-wise where the Soviets didn't with regards to the inability to fire grunt workers) 6) Pervasive labour discipline culture (like against absenteeism) 7) Wholesale "renewal of cadres" (euphemistically speaking, as a means to punish incompetent managers) In order to achieve industrial redevelopment and ecological sustainability. Consumer goods and services would be way down the pecking order (heightened "austerity" propaganda, standardization of nutritional needs through proliferation of military-style rations and promotion of "rational" consumption culture around such), particularly if there are fears of overpopulation throughout society. In short, it should sound familiar; it's a mixture of Act Utilitarianism (philosophically), Bordigism, and "High Stalinism" [...] the second-worst-case scenario (the worst being no industrial redevelopment, no ecological sustainability, and the general drive to extinction). This would be the Coordinator Revolution, free from bourgeois and petit-bourgeois property relations, in its purest form [...] (Marx's adage about capital being a fetter to its own expansion or something like that). Heavy-handed authoritarian planning based on labour time would atomize black markets and their development. My scenario was a critique of Bordiga's authoritarian turn from "The Democratic Principle" onwards. I'm just saying, coming from my much younger, more utilitarian-based background, that this Coordinator Revolution mixing Act Utilitarianism, Bordigism, and "High Stalinism" would be the second-worst scenario compared to staying in the downward spiral within barbarism.
