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+# DarkFi Philosophy
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+## State Civilization and the Democratic Nation
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+**State civilization** has a 5000 year history. The origin of civilizations in mesopotamia
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+experienced a cambrian explosion of various forms. The legacy of state civilization
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+can be traced back to ancient assyria which was essentially a military dictatorship
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+that mobilized all of society's resources to wage war and defeat other civilizations,
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+enslaving them and seizing their wealth.
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+Wikipedia defines civilization:
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+
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+> Civilizations are organized densely-populated settlements divided into hierarchical
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+> social classes with a ruling elite and subordinate urban and rural populations.
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+>
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+> Civilization concentrates power, extending human control over the rest of nature,
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+> including over other human beings.
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+However this destiny of civilization was not inherent as history teaches us.
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+This definition is one particular mode of civilization that become prevalent.
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+During human history there has been plethora forms of civilizations. Our role as
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+revolutionaries is to reconstruct the civilizational paradigm.
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+The **democratic nation** is synonymous with society, and produces all value
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+include that which the state extracts. Creative enterprise and wealth production
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+originates in society from small scale business, artisans and inventors, and
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+anybody driven by intent or ambition to create works.
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+Within society, there are multiple coexisting nations which are communities of
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+people sharing language, history, ethnicity or culture. For example there could
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+be a nation based on spiritual belief, the nation of women, or a distinct
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+cultural nation.
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+The **nation state** is an extreme variant of the state civilization tendency.
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+Like early state civilizations, the development of the French nation-state was
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+more effective at seizing the wealth of society to mobilize in war against the
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+existing empires of the time.
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+Soon after, the remaining systems were forced to
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+adopt the nation state system, including its ideology of **nationalism**.
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+It is no mistake that the nation state tends towards nationalism and fascism
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+including the worst genocides in human history. Nationalism is a blind religion
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+supplanting religious ideologies weakened by secularism. However nationalism
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+is separate from patriotism.
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+> Loving one's country for which you have struggled and fought over for centuries
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+> or even millenia as an ethnic community or nation, which you have made your
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+> homeland in this long struggle, represents a sacred value.
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+>
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+> ~ Ocalan's "PKK and Kurdish Question in the 21st century"
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+
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+## Modernity and the Subject of Ideology
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+**Modernity** was born in the "age of reason" and represents the overturning of
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+prevailing religious ideas and rejection of tradition in favour of secularization.
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+Modernity has a mixed legacy which includes alienation, commodity festishism,
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+scientific positivism and rationalism.
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+During this period of modernity, 4 major ideologies developed, each with their
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+own specific subject as its focus.
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+
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+* Liberalism and its subject of the individual. Individuals are atomic units
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+ existing under the state system which guarantees them certain bargains in
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+ the form of laws and rights.
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+* Communism which focused on the concept of class warfare, and economic justice
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+ through state power.
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+* Fascism which put the volk or state at the center of society, whereby all
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+ resources would be mobilized to serve the state.
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+* Anarchism with its critiques of power, and favouring social freedom.
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+The particular form of modernity that is predominant can be characterized as
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+**capitalist modernity**. Capitalism, otherwise referred to by others as
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+corporatism can be likened to a religion, whereby a particular elite class
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+having no ideology except self profit uses the means of the state to protect
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+its own interests and extract the wealth of society through nefarious means.
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+In some ways, it is a parasite on the state.
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+**Agorist free markets** is the democratic tendency of economy. The word
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+'economy' derives from the Ancient Greek 'oikonomos' which means household
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+management. Economy was during ancient periods connected with nature, the
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+role of motherhood, life and freedom. It was believed that wealth derived
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+from the quality of our lived our environments. The Kurds use the feminine
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+word 'mal' to refer to the house, while the masculine variant refers to
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+actual property. Later during the Roman period, economy came to be
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+understood as the accumulation of property in the form of number of slaves
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+owned, amount of land seized or the quantity of money.
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+The subject of our ideology is the moral and political society. Society exists
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+within a morality and a politics. Here we use politics to refer not to
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+red team vs blue team, but instead all social activity concerned with
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+our security, necessity and life. A society can only be free when it has
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+its own morality and politics. The state seeks to keep society weak by
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+depriving it of morality and replacing society's politics with statecraft.
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+
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+## The Extinction of Humanity
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+During the 20th century, liberals, communists and fascists vyed for state power
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+each promising a new form of society. State power existed with these external
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+ideological justifications.
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+With the end of the soviet union, and the end of history (according to liberalism),
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+state power morphed into pure domination and profit. The system simply become
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+a managerial form of raw power over society without purpose or aim.
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+Wars such as Iraq were invented by neoliberals to breathe a new purpose into society.
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+Indeed there is no more effective means to support despotism than war.
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+Today the military industrial complex has grown into a gigantic leviathan that
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+threatens the world driving economies into an ever greater spiral of desperation.
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+The push the development of automated weapons, aerial drones and
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+[ninja missiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire#AGM-114R9X)
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+that eliminate all space for human resistance against tyranny.
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+
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+Meanwhile
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+[social credit scoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System)
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+is being introduced as CBDCs with incentivization schemes such as UBI.
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+Such systems will give more effective means for the seizure of wealth by
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+the state from society, centralizing economic power within an already
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+deeply corrupt elite class.
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+
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+Liberal ideologies have made people indifferent to their own situation, turning
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+society inwards focused on social media, unable to organize together to
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+oppose rising authoritarianism. Liberalism is essentially a tendency towards
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+extinction or death.
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+
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+## Nature, Life, Freedom
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+
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+**Nature** is the center of spiritual belief. Humanity is an aspect of nature.
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+Nature is more than the number of trees. It is the going up, the ascending of life.
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+Through struggle, we overcome obstacles, becoming harder and stronger along the way.
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+This growth makes us more human, and closer with nature.
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+People naturally feel an empathy with nature such as when an animal is injured, or
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+generous feelings towards the young of any species. This feeling was put in us by
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+evolution. We feel an attachment and empathy towards our lived environment, and
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+want to see it improve. This feeling is mother nature speaking through us.
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+The more in touch we are with this deeper feeling, the more free we are since we
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+are able to develop as higher human beings.
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+
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+Freedom does not mean the ability to be without constraint or enact any wild fantasy
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+at a moment's notice. Freedom means direct conscious action with power that makes
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+us ascend upwards. Nature is full of interwoven threads of organisms vying for influence
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+or power, with time doing an ordered dance punctuated by inflection points of change.
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+It is during those moments that our ability of foresight and prescience allow us
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+to deeply affect events along alternative trajectories.
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+
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+## Re-Evaluating Anarchism
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+
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+Anarchists had the correct critique & analysis of power. In particular seeing that
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+the nation state would grow into a monster that would consume society.
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+However they were the least equipped of all the other ideologies during modernity
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+to enact their vision and put their ideas into practice.
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+
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+* They fell victim to the same positivist forces that they claimed to be fighting
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+ against.
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+* They lacked a coherent vision, and had little strategy or roadmap for how
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+ the revolution would happen.
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+* Their utopian demand that the state must be eliminated immediately and at all
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+ costs meant they were not able to plan how that would happen.
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+* Their opposition to all forms of authority, even legitimate leadership meant
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+ they were ineffective at organizing revolutionary forces.
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+
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+## Revolutionary Objectives
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+
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+* Our movement is primarily a spiritual one. One cannot understand christianity
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+ by studying its system of churches, since primarily it is a body of teachings.
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+ Likewise the core of our movement is in our philosophy, ideas and concepts,
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+ which then inform our ideas on governance and economics.
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+* We must build a strong intellectual fabric that innocuates us and fosters
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+ resilience, as well as equipping us with the means to be effective in our work.
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+* There are two legacies in technology. One informed by state civilization,
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+ and the other by society. The technology we create is to solve problems that
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+ society and aligned communities have.
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+
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+<!-- TODO:
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+- liberal vs expansive democracy
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+- fostering democratic orgs, democratic culture, lifecycle of an org
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