Oct 2, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
Robert Chapman Brooking writes Cosmopolity, a Substack devoted to what he calls cosmopolitan patriotism. He is an advocate of “ultrahumanism” a synthesis of futurism, transhumanism, spirituality and…
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But, um, Levi, I think, uh, has clarified in The Cosmonaut, which is the, that caucus' publication, that, um, he does not think that AI accomplishes the goals of socialism.
It still needs class struggle and an explicit program of taking over the AI industry, of socializing it.
Um, is that part of what you want to embrace here? Um, uh, this mo- That, that would be as diametrically opposed from a Reason magazine libertarianism or a centrism, a- as far as I can tell, um, the, an explicit embrace of a class struggle politics to take the wealth away from the oligarchs and put it in the public's hands.
Well, there would still be freedom of association and the right to organize co-ops and democratically run firms.
Um, I'm not much of a libertarian, but I have a libertarian influence.
Uh, an AI dividend is in order, and that's cross-cutting ac- across boundaries.
And so going forward, we do need to in- include class struggle in the AI discussion.
We do need to take on the tech oligarchs and deal seriously with the job loss from AI and have an economic rebound from a, a socialization of the economy in a market socialism.
Bernie Sanders has proposed, um, uh, 50% nationalization of the frontier labs into a sovereign wealth fund, which if they don't collapse and continue to grow and make lots of profits, would be able to provide dividends of the kind that we're talking about, a UBI.
But, um, part of the perspective of, on the left has been that, um, a UBI would potentially buy off...
I mean, this is a, a typical left complaint, I think, about all social reforms, so I don't take it as, that seriously.
But, um, Levi, I think, uh, has clarified in The Cosmonaut, which is the, that caucus' publication, that, um, he does not think that AI accomplishes the goals of socialism.
It still needs class struggle and an explicit program of taking over the AI industry, of socializing it.
Um, is that part of what you want to embrace here? Um, uh, this mo- That, that would be as diametrically opposed from a Reason magazine libertarianism or a centrism, a- as far as I can tell, um, the, an explicit embrace of a class struggle politics to take the wealth away from the oligarchs and put it in the public's hands.
Well, there would still be freedom of association and the right to organize co-ops and democratically run firms.
Um, I'm not much of a libertarian, but I have a libertarian influence.
Uh, an AI dividend is in order, and that's cross-cutting ac- across boundaries.
And so going forward, we do need to in- include class struggle in the AI discussion.
We do need to take on the tech oligarchs and deal seriously with the job loss from AI and have an economic rebound from a, a socialization of the economy in a market socialism.
Bernie Sanders has proposed, um, uh, 50% nationalization of the frontier labs into a sovereign wealth fund, which if they don't collapse and continue to grow and make lots of profits, would be able to provide dividends of the kind that we're talking about, a UBI.
But, um, part of the perspective of, on the left has been that, um, a UBI would potentially buy off...
I mean, this is a, a typical left complaint, I think, about all social reforms, so I don't take it as, that seriously.
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