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Paragraph 1 of this section says: This is not the solution, but a technical review of the math that may help solve how to scale up “anarchism“ (read as: math nerd computer communism).

Paragraph 2 says: The math that might be useful is that used to describe self-organization in networks, currently applied in telcom systems (internet) and neuroscience (u’ve prolly heard of “neural networks”).

Paragraph 3-5 says: Mises says socialism is a technocratic challenge. Math and computers were not up to par in the past, but they might be now!
Time for “Economic Science Fictions” of cybernetic communist infrastructure of computation to replace markets (verbatim)!

Scary how markets, whatever their worth, were a sphere of human activity. Then it became all of it. Now the author proposes to replace this totality with computers. And this is called “anarchism”.

Paragraph 6-21 says: “The main notion of complexity in mathematics is Kolmogorov complexity, which classifies the complexity of something as the length of the shortest process (algorithm) that realizes it.”

This equation can be modified to account for relative complexity, structured complexity, organized complexity, effective complexity, potential complexity...and therefore is useful to compute communism...along with...

Paragraph 22 says: Math from neuroscience can help solve the individualism vs collectivism dilemma that is a point of conflict between some commies and anarchists....until next section 3.3, p.15 which says:

“ The dynamics of profit in markets is not a law of nature: it is implemented artificially via a machinery consisting of several instruments such as currencies, systems of credit and debt, etc. In a similar way, if we want to implement a dynamics of integrated informational complexity optimiza- tion, we need to devise the appropriate instruments that will implement it. ”

These instruments being:

(1) Instruments of connectedness: aka anarchist choo choo train! (basically telcom tech, internet!).

(2) Instruments of complexity: ~Culture~ (meaning poetry, cuz it complexify, but does not maximize profit...)

The paragraph that follows it is a long one with confused leaps of logic regarding art. It seems to say...art is complex, has been analyzed using these equations...proving soviet minimalist art has formal simplicity but high conceptual complexity therefore...communist art good, anarcho-communist avant garde art validated?!!!?!?!!?! and art is instrumentalized AS A GEAR IN SOCIAL ENGINEERING?!?!?!??

This broke me.
Then it goes on a few paragraphs on how communities = networks, and the math used to describe types of networks.

Then the forced conclusion which was just the assumption from the beginning

Markets are proposed as solutions in anarchist circles, but communism is better because it has better math to solve all your problems.

WHAT DID WE LEARN?!

That sprinkling math and references (the equivalent of name-dropping, mere mentioning as examples) is not a substitute for good argumentation and sound logic.

That communists will lower you to their level and beat you over the head with word-count and haunt you with the specter of science (its living body not present, just the gore and the spooks) UNTIL YOU BECOME INSANE.

I lost sleep, life was drained from me, yet I laugh merrily at this worthless arrogant foolishness!

Death to the technocrats!
Or at least a good time that will keep them off their work indefinitely!