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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And If the system of capitalism can’t survive paying people enough to thrive, we need to change the system! In the past, when it pushes back, we’ve slowly shrank our demands. With solidarity we can hold the line and transform society.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"The climate crisis cannot be addressed within capitalism. It is vital that we understand this fact and develop our strategies accordingly, otherwise we are headed for certain failure. And failure is not an option." jasonhickel.substack.com/p/climate-so...

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Climate socialism

I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Starmer’s legacy is genocide. He provided military and intelligence support to Israel as it perpetrated the crime of crimes against the Palestinian people. That is how he will be remembered.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Also it’s not clear why this would cut against Hickels claim about productive capacity vs aggregate productivity.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

That chart’s measuring solar as a percent of each country’s grid, not how much got built. China’s grid was blowing up at the same time so the percent stays tiny. Look at actual panels: China went 0.9 GW to 886 GW. That’s nine Germanys. And they make the panels Germany buys.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I spoke the other day in Paris about how socialist policy can enable us to overcome social deprivation and ecological crisis, by aligning investment and production with democratically determined objectives.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Cuba helped several African countries in their liberation struggles against brutal colonial occupiers, including against the apartheid regime in South Africa which the US backed and supported. That’s what he means by “radical left-wing terrorism”, just to be clear. x.com/SecRubio/sta...

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The imperial core has gained $15 trillion through exorbitant privilege since 1970, getting higher returns on foreign assets than what they pay on foreign debt. This privilege is financed by transfers from the global South, outstripping aid flows many times over.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

His work is describing absolute wealth transfers. A poor region growing faster in percentage terms can still hemorrhage enormous absolute value to the core. Faster growth off a low base is also fully compatible with continued net extraction.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

That’s not my solution at all. I’ve no idea why you would accuse me of that.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

If actors in a system aren’t behaving as the data would have you expect, your first instinct shouldn’t be to decide that the unexpected behavior is entirely explained by vibes. The data we currently collect, and how we collect it, doesn’t capture as much as people seem to think.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Well said. The other issue is that these laymen data hounds are not asking the questions a scientist should ask when analyzing data. It’s good practice to ask if the questions answered by the data are really the right questions. The 2008 Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission is a good example.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Watching this felt like drinking fresh, cold, adult size water.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

And yes, I do feel that I’m allowed to filter engagement in the way I choose. In my opinion, we’ve reached a point where our discussion isn’t providing anything to either of us; so I’m not really keen to keep talking at each other.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That quote post isn’t for you it’s for myself and the very few people who I interact with regularly on this site. You are free to turn off quoting if you wish. I have no control over how you choose to filter engagement.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It wasn’t my intention to offend you in anyway. I read it was a good practice for redundancy and guaranteed accessibility (with alt text) which made sense to me. I wasn’t worried about you blocking me. You don’t seem like the type to block.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

But your perspective isn’t uncommon, and I’m not interested in convincing you of mine, to the extent that would even be feasible.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I obviously, mostly, disagree. Mostly because I don’t think a mode of production is the kind of thing you define by ticking off attributes the way you would a scientific concept. It’s defined by a relation, which is precise in a different way.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A definition “earns” its keep when it groups together things that actually behave alike and separates things that don’t. By that standard “capitalism” holds up better than “trade,” because trade lumps the Manchester mill in with the village barter it has nothing structurally in common with.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In all analysis, in every field of human thought the choice is never whether to draw a line, only where to draw it and whether the line tracks something real (this is what epistemology has to grapple with).

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That doesn’t make the concept arbitrary. A mode of production can be defined by its dominant relation and either a society runs on that relation or it doesn’t, which is a real distinction in the world.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I think you probably agree that “better than feudalism” is a low bar, and preferring capitalism isn’t an endorsement of capitalism as the best or final system.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

But yeah, I would rather swallow a pineapple whole than return to feudalism! as much as I’m sure I would commiserate with my fellow peasants at the time… I’m not terribly upset about how things have gone.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The point is just pinpointing when the wage relation starts becoming dominant (in england and Western Europe) which allows us to trace the growth of a that class until it’s large enough to make wage labor the general condition. it’s uneven and lots to argue about when “dominant” actually holds.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We can agree on that mostly. I also think Marx is largely right that capitalism’s development of the productive forces matters for what comes after. The point before wasn’t that we should feel bad for the peasants or resent the developmental progress that followed.

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? @ahhhhhlt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You might be shocked when the rest of the ruling class and the politicians turn on ai and big tech but I will be not shocked at all and I’ll be waiting here for the coming major crisis to proceed rationally

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Lol, that’s just not at all how it worked. Which again you’d know from studying the primary sources. Meaning the historical record every scholar of the topic relies on, not my favourites. I’ll have to mute you now, or i may waste my whole day in circles with you. I do hope you study!

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Your claim that the historical record is hearsay is conspiratorial.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

What are you on about? I agree there’s zero chance there’s a conspiracy here that’s my entire point. The historical record I’m describing is what every scholar relies on, not just a few scholars I happen to like.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You’ve now had to call every primary source from the period fake to keep your hunch alive. Again somthing study of the evidence could prevent.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Manor court rolls weren’t hearsay. They were written at the session by trained legal scribes, in Latin, on parchment, in a fixed legal format, from the 13th century on. The clerk’s literacy is the whole point of having a clerk.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You don’t know the basic shape of the thing well enough to have an opinion about it worth arguing against. You have hunches based on an uninformed perception of the actual events. I’m not interested in continuing our conversation.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I can’t argue with you, because you’re not describing a system that existed. There was no ‘honour system.’ Common right ran on manor courts, written rolls, grazing stints and elected officers. This is why study matters.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It’s a closed loop. You’ve said you don’t need study, so nothing can get in. There’s nothing left to argue.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I encounter the same form of arguments with climate deniers, vaccine skeptics, etc. Evidence doesn’t always conform to our expectations, which perplexes them as well. You’ve decided what’s plausible, then ruled out any evidence that doesn’t match.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Even if that was a fair or accurate disparagement of the commons system and its actors (it’s very much not) your claim still requires evidence. Random people on the internet, with a clear gap in knowledge on the subject matter, finding something plausible or not isn’t a reasonable gauge of reality.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Now my point, that I hope you won’t find outrageous, is a claim about what happened needs evidence behind it.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Like I said a hunch is a reasonable starting point but a lousy endpoint. The evidence I’ve encountered doesn’t support your hunch. If you have evidence to support it I would be thrilled to continue the conversation. I’m keen to update my knowledge of history to better understand the present.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Common right was formal, legally recognised property, pasture, turbary, gleaning, inherited and defended in the manor courts. But ignoring the category error I understand your hunch. as far as hunches go, it isn’t outrageous.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m of the opinion that everyone should be required to read every word this mental giant ever wrote.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Good advice for those in long-term relationships too, mind! My tremendous goblin wife stirs my inner goblin when I take the time to be present and take interest!

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If you’ve sources informing your opinion, I’m genuine in my interest! I’m not interested in clinging to knowledge that’s no longer supported by the evidence. I want to understand how history brought us to our current state which requires an evidence based approach.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There’s not any evidence, that I’m aware of, behind ‘deteriorating commons threatened everyone, so no choice but to privatise.’ That’s three claims stacked into one, and the record (again that I’m aware of) doesn’t carry the weight.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

But that’s local and it’s about unequal rights, rather than a threat to general wellbeing. Others, like Gregory Clark, argue common fields were stable for 600 years and only got enclosed when prices shifted.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The part that isn’t contested is that enclosure happened through statute and landlord power. To be clear Some historians do argue parts of the commons were under strain. Thirsk on overstocking, for one.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Common knowledge isn’t the same as evidence. Lots of solid history never goes mainstream, and lots of ‘everyone knows’ is just the story that stuck. Of course there’s real debate in enclosure history but it’s primarily around effects. How bad, how fast, how much poverty.

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Seoirse @onodofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ostrom, Governing the Commons, case studies of common-pool resources.

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