I'm student at the 42 school at Paris (google it, computer science private school, funded by one of our top capitalists here, Xavier Niel). Currently we are bathing in neo-liberalism vomit but I seem to be the only one to see it. Everyone here seems to think the school is a revolution. In particular, they all pray the new start-up religion and the Church of the Sillicon Valley.
Basically I'm one of the best here but I hate them all, and I'd like to improve my arguments. I'm looking for reading material against neo-liberalism, preferably against start-ups in particular.
You mean those worker-owned companies that allow you to keep what you make(at least more than the usual model of capitalist production)? These people don't realize that they are resorting to socialist practices because that capitalist system is failing them.
Since you are a CompSci student, I hope you do well. We need more techies around. So I would like to say that first. Second, bring up automation and the problems that it will cause in the future. Even capitalists can see this. We are a culture of overwork with a paradoxical crisis in unemployment. We are the wealthiest and the most in-debt. All these things are built into the capitalist system. Here is a series of videos to wet your lips if you don't yet have time to read tedious theory.
La nouvelle raison du monde from Chisthian Laval and Pierre Dardot should be an interesting read. Most books written by Domenico Losurdo are big rants against liberalism in all of it's forms, particularly "Liberalism: A Counter-History" and " Le révisionnisme en histoire: Problèmes et mythes". There's also David Harvey and a couple others, but I'm not sure of how good they are since I haven't read them.
Cooper Collins
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Blake Lewis
No, I mean shareholder-owned companies that are free to lay-off laborers if they don't work 60h/week and are happy to do so.
I'll watch the videos, thanks
Adam Bell
Just sit back and wait for the tech bubble to pop.
Andrew Sanchez
Depends what they're specifically teaching you. It's not like they're just saying "Neoliberalism a best everything else a shit" Is it? Anyway, Google "Anis Shivani Neoliberalism" to start you off. Then "Capitalism" by Anwar Shaikh - probably one of the most important economics books of the last 30 years. Then Inequality and Instability by James K. Galbraith. And probably something by Chris Hedges, he has tons of videos on Youtube. Mark Blyth too.
Blake Fisher
Econfag here, iktf. Nothing you can do but channel your hatred. Wish I would have done something like compsci instead of training to become a priest of capitalism, only thing for me now is to try for a media co-op and hope I can make films without choking on too much porky cock.
I'd guess he means selling that to a corporate giant for a few million and reliquishing ownership over their work. And that's if he's lucky, angel investors are notorious for stipulating a buyout option where they can seize the company when they feel like it.
Jeremiah Gomez
Interesting. Can you elaborate?
This is the funny part. We don't have any teacher but the market.
Ryder Evans
This, OP. Also David Harvey.
Hudson Cooper
Oh how silly of me, of course - the market knows best :^)
What did you have to do to get in? How did the others?
Joseph Watson
Basically you go through a month of really hard work. If you're still standing after one month, changes are you're in. It's called the "piscine". Google "42 school".
Jordan Johnson
Look up stats about the start up failure rate and talk about that.
Also, is it as horrible as I'm imaging it? Are they all mac book using node.js-lovers using the latest bloated web framework to write superfluous software nobody needs? I hope you aren't one of these.
Luis Wilson
It might take 5, 10, 20 years but eventually these cucks will be proved wrong. I remember clearly the repulsive hubris of the political and financial """elite""" before 2007, thinking that somehow they'd found a way to end boom and bust, that a new paradigm had been reached, that their smug liberal values would be remain intact for eternity. These aren't the first, they aren't the last. This exact same shit has been recorded back to ancient Greece, pride always comes before a fall, and these rat fucks will try to carry all they can while they leave the sinking ship, I hope you and your fellow Frenchmen cave their fucking skulls in when the time comes and take back from the parasites what belongs to the people.
Adam Perez
Yeah, but what criterion determines who stays? Who holds the power in this "free" institution?
Brody Williams
Haha. This. Exactly. It might be even worse that you say it is. Except we are trained to do C, but everyone hates it "C is ugly and old blabla"
Of course I'm not one of them. I run archlinux on a cheap desktop and I mostly do C and Haskell.
Mark Blyth seems interesting, thanks. Kind of reminds me of Frederic Lordon. If you speak french, you should watch him on youtube.
Joshua Martin
We don't really know the admission criterion. Everyone can join the piscine and give a try, but few last one entire month. Basically if you end the piscine alive and worked every day, you have good chances to stay.
Nicolas Sadirac, ultimately, the school executive, who gives head to Niel every morning.
Cameron Moore
Wow great speech comrade, thanks
Charles Rodriguez
Master C, transcend arch. (to Debian, Void or BSD, imo) and learn lisp/forth/emacs/vi. Become a unix guru [0], suckless style[1], and teach you colleges the simple and modest way. If one learns anything from computers, it's not to rely on them too much.
Also start a .pdf collection on multiple CS (eg. , [2] or that one thread on /pdfs/) and well as Marxism/econ/philosophy (see reading thread or /freedu/) related book. Gain a solid understanding before debating anything, and if you do, always stay calm. Never pride youself in being better than others, but instead make them show their own stupidity. Works perfectly for me.
Also, I have no idea what you want to say in the last paragraph.
Forget attachment. Also, the first paragraph is just a personal recommendation, not necessary. But if you're already around lifestylists, learn to distinct yourself.
Easton Lewis
Yeah I already know the suckless way, I use st, dwm and vim. I don't see the problem with arch though. Honestly I'm pretty close to mastering C, imo. Thanks for your recommendations. It helps.>>1568542
Logan Davis
I'd also add there's some videos of Varoufakis explaining how the Euro Group functioned. Not strictly related, but as he explained what happened it became clear that the neoliberals are clueless, that they were about political expediency rather than any kind of priniciple, and their trick was to convince people of competence. Kind of like people who lease expensive cars to project an image of success to reel in more suckers. It's a good thing that you know it's a charade.
Jose James
I used arch when I was 16 and while it was nice at times, the memes are true and stuff broke more often than necessary, while systemd was a hag. Except for the amount of existing packages, I couldn't find anything Arch does better than Void for example.
Also, it has a bad reputation, but if you don't care about that, or don't fear it will hurt you credibility, then there's no problem in principle with it.
Also, extra pdfs.
Robert Bailey
Also maybe you'll get a few people interested in cybernetics:
Who knows, maybe you'll form a study group?
Ryan Taylor
Amen brother.
Jeremiah Evans
You sound familiar. Were you on that thread with the user advertising his movie where an ISIS dude and white supremacist become friends?
Evan Ward
Dude, fuck targeting just neo-liberalism. Go for the core essence of Capitalism - pick up Wage Labour & Capital, then Value Price and Profit. Watch some youtube videos on the LTV first just to give you an idea for the terms that Marx doesn't explain in the books.
You will be able to rape liberals with that knowledge.
