Socialism of the Future

Socialism of the Future is an economically left-wing, culturally revolutionary, anti-imperialist and scientific socialist ideology that is meant to represent the views of user .dotdotdotsam. It advocates for an intense emphasis on technological and scientific development, a strong intelligentsia, the establishment of a powerful proletarian culture (proletkult), a philosophy guided by utilitarianism and pragmatism over utopian thought, proletarian feminism, reduction of carbon emissions (as much as possible) to combat climate change, a cybernetic planned economy, and emphasis on revolution over reform in order to create the socialism of the future.

Emphasis on technological and scientific development
Through all of the scientific, intellectual, and industrial progress that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have afforded us, it is absolutely laughable that we, in the present day, remain with the antiquated system of capitalism. We are able to detect gravitational waves, create robotic body-parts, prove the existence of dark matter, and sequence the genome of cancer patients, yet we remain with the economic anarchy of market capitalism. This is not only outrageous and infuriating, it is also laughable. A core tenet of SOTF, possibly its defining character, is that technology and the resources that it is able to produce must be used for social progress as opposed to how it is currently used in modern capitalism - that is, to simply enrich the bourgeois class.

When the conditions are right, heavy investment must be placed into the sciences. This was one of the greatest and most notable successes of the USSR, as it became possibly the 20th century's greatest intellectual powerhouse in a rapid process. In line with major investments in literary programs to educate the population, academic success must be placed as the forefront of the nation's values so as to produce scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and other intellectuals that are capable of advancing the nation and being at the forefront of technological innovation. After all, the future is engineered only by individuals who are fully capable of understanding it.

The technological developments will be used to expand the forces of production; enhance economic planning; program more beneficial and efficient manners of coordinating government; and possibly for experiments in genetic modification of food and reduction of carbon emissions to switch over to sustainable energy, to name a couple of examples. With technology, the possibilities are endless: we, as humans, can quite literally engineer our future.

Political economy
I will make an attempt to be brief here. Put simply, when the conditions are right then I believe that a planned economy with the assistance of a decision support system (DSS) is the most effective manner of coordinating an economy for the better interests of the people. In Towards A New Socialism, Paul Cockshott argues for this cybernetic form of economic management as well as the use of non-circulating labor credits to price goods and services.

On planning
To begin with, central planning is far more efficient as a method of democratic allocation than a market economy. Because the profit incentive is at the core of the market economy, commodity production is done for profit rather than utility. For this reason we see things like planned obsolescence, consumerism, and Supreme Oreos selling for $91,000 (and being sold out in hours). Many of the commodities that are produced under capitalism, although often plentiful in supply (if you're privileged enough), are generally not useful to people as the exchange-value is placed over the use-value. Under socialist economic planning, the goal is to prioritize use-values over exchange-values.

The central planning of the USSR is, although nonetheless a form of economic planning, not intended to be replicated, and neither is Allende's Chile. Both of those methods of economic management, although progressive for their time, were still confined to it; Stalin's bureaucratic planning being prior to the development of the Internet and modern technology, and Allende's cybernetic planning being reliant upon antiquated Telex machines. We live in different times, and any proposed economic system of the future should reflect that.



With the democratic usage of futuristic technology being a core tenet of SOTF, it must follow then, that the economic model of SOTF must abide by these principles as well. Modern technology has made economic planning possible to a greater extent than ever, yet its bourgeois detractors will utilize Mises's Economic Calculation Problem against it, even though the ECP was a criticism of the antiquated Soviet model of economic planning.

On currency
Once again established by Paul Cockshott (and even Karl Marx himself), a system of non-circulating labor credits could be very beneficial under the right conditions of economic and material development. Marx takes the circulation of commodities to be the exchange of commodities for money and money for other commodities. He depicts this as C-M-C’, where C-C’ represents both a change in the form of the commodity and, as is implied by the commodity as capital, an increase in value. He sees the circulation of commodities as facilitated by the circulation of money as capital. A system of non-circulating labor vouchers could very well be the solution for this.

With non-circulating labor credits, people would be credited with hours worked rather than money at the end of the week, and payments for goods and services would also be in terms of time; essentially, you would pay for a garment that took two hours to make with two hours of your own labor-time. This is essentially a monetary system based on time rather than arbitrary currency units such as pounds, dollars, or euros, for example. Although the manner in which these labor credits can be tracked is, of course, dependent on material resources available, when the conditions are right the method in which these labor credits can be tracked will be as follows:

"Nowadays one need not think in terms of paper certificates of work done. Instead we can envisage the use of some form of labour credit card which keeps track of how much work you have done. Deductions from your social labour credit account could be made by filling in a slip, or using a direct debit terminal."

Comrades

 * [[File:Marx.png]] Marxism - Marx and Engels, although not prophets of any sort, brilliantly demonstrated and exposed the inner workings of capitalism; their names continue to strike fear in the hearts of the bourgeois and the petty-bourgeois that uphold them.
 * [[File:Cybercom.png]] Cybercommunism - The transformation of an all too flawed capitalist market economy into a marvelously efficient cybernetically-planned socialist economy will be an absolute marvel to observe, a joyful sight for the world's industrial workers.
 * [[File:Erga.png]]Ergatocracy - It is the beginning of the end for the relative comfort of bourgeois politicians; they, too, will tremble similarly to the manner in which millions of working people worldwide tremble whenever their fascist policies are implemented. The working class must become the ruling class of society by any means necessary.
 * [[File:MF.png]]Marxist Feminism - The subjection of women at the hands of a patriarchal social order goes back for thousands of years. The establishment of a new social order and a proletarian cultural revolution must, above all other things, put an end to the social order that preceded it, patriarchy being a key component of it.
 * [[File:Ecosoc.png]] Ecosocialism - It is absolutely and completely lamentable how the environment has suffered at the hands of privatization and economic liberalism, a complete tragedy that could have been plainly avoided with rational economic planning. But this has not come to be the case - it is mainly unprofitable for the billionaire capitalist leeches that have become key lobbyists for the Global North's neoliberal candidates.
 * [[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] Revolutionary Progressivism - Glory to the Proletkult! A sense of revolutionary optimism must be a central component of the new proletarian culture, something terribly absent from the neoliberal pseudo-democracies of the Global North. Our time is limited to take back the Earth; after all, the light at the end of the tunnel can only be made by us. We have a world to win.

Halfway there

 * [[File:Fut2.png]] Futurism - The avant-garde provocations of the Italian Futurists brilliantly capture the ultra-modernist spirit at the core of SOTF, indicating a path for the cultural revolutionaries of the future; it is terribly unfortunate how Mussolini's fascism was able to capture their hearts.
 * [[File:Clib.png]]Classical Liberalism - While I believe that, historically, there is much to be learned and admired from the way you have captured the hearts of millions, you must be left in the past. Due to the development of the productive forces and, consequently, an evolved superstructure, your ideology is antiquated and no longer relevant in modern times. Any attempt to revive it is nothing but the impulse of a romantic bourgeois-reactionary.
 * [[File:Socan2.png]]Social-Anarchism - The abolition of the state is a utopian ideal that fails to fully erode the underlying material conditions that allow the state to exist in the first place. Without a withering away of the state, there would be next to nothing preventing an individual from forming a state of their own. This incentive to form a state and take advantage over another human must be done away with by the development of the productive forces and the evolution of the production-modes, any immediate abolition of the state would simply address a symptom of class society rather than its cause. Many of you are simply liberals who are too afraid to pick up a copy of State and Revolution. That being said, I am willing to critically support many anarchists and even accept them as comrades.

Lumpenproletariat

 * [[File:Ego.png]]Egoism - "Saint Max who, like all saints, loves miracles, but can only perform a logical miracle, is annoyed because he cannot make the sun dance the cancan, he grieves because he cannot still the ocean, he is indignant because he must allow the mountains to tower to the sky." - Karl Marx, The German Ideology
 * [[File:Annil.png]]Anarcho-Nihilism - Listen, I know it was tough when Erica broke up with you, but you're a big man now - 13 years of age! Eric, I promise that you will get over this depressive phase. "Anti-civ"? "Chaos star"? What are you going on about? Listen man, you need to get some sleep. If you'd like, I can even read you a bedtime story.
 * [[File:Anticiv.png]]Anti-Civ Anarchism - Jesus, Eric, you're a grown adult now. Erica broke up with you 19 years ago dude, you need to get over it. You guys were only together for three days anyway. Please take a shower too, you spend all your time in Mom's basement eating Bugles and ranting about how much workers suck. Worried about you, little bro.
 * [[File:Illeg.png]]Illegalism - Disgusting lumpen ideology that considers nothing else than his own interests, truly the most revolting child of egoism.

Those who deserve no sympathy

 * [[File:Fash.png]]Fascism - You are the embodiment of evil. It disgusts me that you exist. For the most part, I am uncomfortable with the idea of killing someone, but I guarantee that I wouldn't feel an inch of remorse lodging a bullet in your head, effectively ending your worthless life you miserable coward. Long live the Red Army, the Partisans, the Republicans, and the IRA!
 * [[File:Imp.png]]Imperialism - You have killed, raped, pillaged, plundered, slaughtered, stolen, swindled, scammed, and done almost irreparable damage to common people and their families worldwide in a calculated effort to maximize profit. When the revolution comes, you'd better have an adequate place to hide yourself from the righteous fury of the proletarians.
 * [[File:Neolib.png]]Neoliberalism - You have ransacked the world's resources, destroyed the lives of millions, and polluted the world's waterways in the pursuit of material gain while you lie in your thirteenth mini-mansion wasting away the days fucking your maid and making sure to keep tabs on your band of propagandists over at the Mises Institute and the Daily Wire, you good-for-nothing gringo.
 * [[File:Reactcross.png]]Reactionarism - Escapism as ideology; pure utopian nonsense that wishes to return to the time of slavery in pursuit of an ideal masculine identity. The past must be abandoned, as we Marxists see to it that a better, more progressive world must be created from our material conditions.