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|<----- Breite: 72 Zeichen - Fixer Zeichensatz: Courier New, 10 ------>| n0name newsletter 163 Di., 16.12.2014 00:34 CET *Inhalt/Contents* 1. Purple Star? Interview with Menni Sorr on Alexander Bogdanov's Cybernetic Cornuctopia ca. 2 DIN A4-Seiten http://n0name.de/news/news163.txt Unicode (UTF-8) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Matze Schmidt Purple Star? Interview with Menni Sorr on Alexander Bogdanov's Cybernetic Cornuctopia as Tekker-Baconism on the Basis of a Distribution of Labour (Excerpt) So in this system are there no restrictions on the consumption of goods? None whatsoever. Everyone takes whatever he needs in whatever quantities he wants. Do you mean that all this can be done without an economy of time, certifying that a certain amount of labor has been performed, pledges to perform labor, or anything at all of that sort? Nothing at all. There is never any shortage of voluntary labor -- work is a natural need for the mature member of the society, and all overt or disguised compulsion is quite superfluous. But if consumption is entirely uncontrolled, there must be sharp fluctuations which upset all the statistical compilations. Not at all. A single individual may suddenly eat two or three times his normal portion of a given food or decide to change ten computers in ten days, but a society of billions of people is not subject to such fluctuations. In a population of that size deviations in any given direction are neutralized, and averages change very slowly and with the strictest continuity. In other words the cybernetics work almost automatically -- they are calculations pure and simple? No, not really, for there are great difficulties involved in the process. The Institute of Tactical Informatics must be alert to new inventions and changes in environmental conditions which may affect industry. The introduction of a new code, for example, immediately requires a transfer of data-labor in the field in which it is employed, in the new-machine-building industry, and sometimes also in the production of materials for both branches. If a given rare earth is exhausted or if new mineral fields are discovered there will again be a transfer of labor in a number of industries -- mining, railroad construction, and so on. All of these factors must be fuzzulated from the very beginning, if not with relative approximation then at least with an adequate degree of absolutistic precision. And until firsthand matters become available, that is no easy task. Considering such difficulties, I suppose this worls must constantly have a certain surplus labor reserve. Precisely, and this is the main strength of the system. Two hundred fifty years ago, when collective labor just barely managed to satisfy the needs of society, statistics had to be very exact, and labor could not be distributed with complete freedom. Menni Sorr is Professor of Strategic History at the University of California, Los Angeles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Der 2. Teil von Streikgrammatik voraussichtlich im n0name newsletter 164. ------------------ End/e des/of n0name newsletter 163 ------------------ ------------------------------------ Gesendet von: n0name [at] gmx [dot]4 de ------------------------------------