it’s coming from Proton workers and it’s circulating in tech labor organizing spaces.

In most tools, it opens a new tab.

Indeed what you’re describing is a recurring argument by people like Cockshot or the INDEP network for the fact that we already have the technology to plan the economy, it’s just captured (mostly) by private corporations. The work of Gianmarco Cristofari instead explores the early examples of states beginning to own these technologies

yeah, we know that the conditions on which these practices developed don’t exist anymore, the context keep shifting and anything that is conceptually stable for more than a decade probably is unfit to create the change we need.

the decision of what’s possible or impossible shoudln’t be done through ideological discourse but through empirical practice. Ideologies are not tools for strategic development and they should stop being treated as such.

It’s an artifact of political debate done within the bubble of people who read too much theory or engage in discussions only with other political people. People who do politics and organizing in the real world are not so concerned about all these ideological nuances or asserting the value of one model over another.

If you don’t have the power to change things, all these abstracts models are useless and uninteresting. Discussing how to build power in the real world is a much better way to spend your political energy.