[IMC-UK-Features] [Imc-uk-process] Economic Collapse topic was Re: proposal - banking feature

[opprobrium at riseup.net]

While I understand the motivation for the choice of terminology, my
concern is that this won't be clear to users. In my opinion the most
useful topics are those with very obvious definitions. The free spaces for
instance has all sorts of stuff in it (and would perhaps have been better
titled "Squats and autonomous spaces").

R

> anargeek wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Thu 05-Mar-2009 at 04:45:54AM -0800, Shiar wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, March 5, 2009 1:30 am, anargeek wrote:
>>>
>>>>   URL:   /en/topics/collapse/
>>>>   Title: Economic Collapse
>>>>
>>> 'Collapse' is a bit too dramatic and probably inaccurate
>>> (so far anyway).
>>>
>>
>> Last year it was called a "credit crunch", now it's a
>> "recession" and sometimes people let slip that it's
>> actually the start of a massive "depression"...
>>
>> We might not need to wait all that long before "Economic
>> Collapse" is considered appropriate by all -- if we were
>> in Iceland I'd have thought everyone would agree it was
>> apt already...
>>
>> I fear a senario something like this has started to
>> unfold:
>>
>> - http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5160
>>
>> We should call it how we see it, I guess I must be at the
>> doomer end of the spectrum... but it could be worse, I
>> could be suggesting a "Global Thermonuclear War"  or
>> "WWW3" topic... I'd be happy to be proven to be
>> pessimistic...
>>
>> Chris
>>
> Ok I'll try and explain things a bit more.
>
> When I said the reference to 'economic collapse' was too apocalyptic,
> the reason I used this word is because I feel it robs us of any agency
> ie. the agency to radically transform capitalism.
>
> Most if not all our topics are orientated politically around our ability
> to resist or transform things. I think this is important and it's
> something we could have consensus on, whereas I don't think we're gonna
> generate any consensus on some contested analysis of the economy.
>
> Solid.
>
> phunkee
>
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