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Atlas/Row 4 · Col 1/Posadist
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§ Cell № 28 of 81
Row 4, Col 1
Economic: Communist
Governance: Mixed
Coords: X-4 · Y+1
Descriptor

Posadist

“Proletarian UFO eschatology.”

Exemplar ↓
J. Posadas
J. Posadas
§ 01
The Idea

What Posadist actually means.

Posadism is an ultra-leftist branch of Trotskyism, advocating nuclear war as a catalyst for world socialism.

Posadism, named after J. Posadas, combines Trotskyist economic collectivism with extreme revolutionary accelerationism.

§ 02 · Tenets

Core commitments.

01
Trotskyist programme of permanent revolution.
02
Nuclear war seen as catalyst for socialism.
03
Belief in technologically advanced extraterrestrials.
04
Uncompromising anti-imperialism.
05
Faith in technological transcendence.
§ 03 · Position

Where it sits on the grid.

Economic axis — X-4
COMMUNIST
Full collectivisationUnfettered markets
Governance axis — Y+1
MIXED
Total controlNo state at all
§ 04 · Reading List

Canon & critics.

§ Canon
  • Flying Saucers, the Process of Matter and Energy, Science
    J. Posadas
    1968 · Pamphlet
§ Critics
  • The Prophet Outcast
    Isaac Deutscher
    1963 · ~520 pp
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