Are you a slave? Will you work your life away to serve a system that crushes people? I want to give you all the shelter, food, clothing, and other goods you need to live. If you had the choice of leaving the capitalist system, wouldn’t you take it? Work or starve…but I want to remove the starvation option, and give you the ability to work at whatever you want.
How? Industrial autonomy. Industrial autonomy is the study of developing technologies that serve the wishes of small autonomous communities.
Does engineering control your life? Is engineering merely a boring mathematical subject, or is it an instrument of capitalist domination? I propose that we build a small scale industrial base that converts capitalist engineering technologies into manufacturing machines that serve us.
Is capitalism the problem? I see capitalism as only one aspect of a deeper problem: machines and mechanical organizations dominate our lives. My goal is to reconquer machines, to force machines to serve our human goals, and end slavery to the machine.
I propose going underground, traveling in stealth, using new technologies to achieve a high standard of living without accepting capitalist servitude. Can you help me? I could give you engineering problems to solve, graphic designs to create, writings to copy-edit.
Industrial autonomy to do list…
Excavation, geotechnical engineering, structural analysis, electricity generation, machine tool fabrication, ventilation & air cleaning, techniques for scavenging, metals recycling, chemical engineering, composite materials manufacturing, metalworking, and many other technical problems.
