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The Radical Ideologies of the 21st Century
•�April 24, 2011
•�1,800 Words •�15 Comments
Though I've written a lot on technological, energy, and geopolitical futures, this has largely been to the neglect of ideology. Part of the reason is that making accurate predictions on this topic is far harder, because of the inherent intangibility of belief systems. Nonetheless, it is necessary, because of their overwhelming influence on the historical... Read More
The Collapse Party Fulfills Its Own Name
•�December 4, 2010
•�1,700 Words •�7 Comments
I founded the Collapse Party one year ago after coming to the hard realization that industrial civilization is unsustainable and that - barring revolutionary socio-political (e.g. "ecotechnic dictatorship") or technological (e.g. geoengineering) transformation - it's catastrophic unraveling by the middle of this century is almost inevitable. As neither of development seems to be in the... Read More
Ecotechnic Dictatorship Is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
•�January 31, 2010
•�6,500 Words •�40 Comments
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why the only realistic way to prevent collapse now is to force through a "sustainable retreat"... Read More
The Final Gambit: Geoengineering
•�January 20, 2010
•�3,300 Words •�6 Comments
It is very likely that efforts to prevent CO2 levels from soaring to 450ppm - the level we need to stop at to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 2C or less - will fail. This will lead to a series of climatic "tipping points", as Gaia's stabilizing systems fail to check runaway... Read More
Green Communism
•�January 4, 2010
•�4,300 Words •�14 Comments
Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today's salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle capable of preventing ecological overshoot because growth in physical throughput is the very basis... Read More
Communism Is Our Road to Redemption
Green Communism is humanity's last and only chance to avert environmental catastrophe.
•�December 31, 2008
•�3,300 Words
Communism is not usually regarded as a green political system.The lack of attention to negative environmental externalities on the part of central planners bequeathed the areas under their control a legacy of wilted forests, poisoned waters and darkened skies. The dissolution of the Soviet empire revealed these failures to the world - the overflowing chemical... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.