The Cybernetics of Retribution

Money is leveraged into power, and power is stored as money. Remember this. It is the autopoietic cycle of domination within capitalism. If we want to break the fascist machine, we need to choke the engine of power by draining the fuel. In their scramble to consolidate power, the fascists have left a lot of victims. They have broken families, injured people, and murdered them, directly and through stochastic terrorism. Their terror has been helped along the way by those who are enthusiastic about the cause of injustice, and by those who have more greed than morals. While I don't believe that punitive “justice” works to prevent most humans from doing bad things, since humans aren't really rational actors, there absolutely is a group for which the fear of retribution does work. Companies do make cold financial calculations when they decide to carry out evil or not. The ultra-rich tend to be rich because they use those same calculations. This is why a key part of de-Nazification in…

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