06 · Federation · Upcoming
The final thinker in the AI Warrior series. Mikhail Bakunin's federalist, anti-authoritarian socialism — rendered for Aotearoa as a Zapatista-style kaupapa of autonomous communes, mana motuhake, and refusal of the state-capital machine. Six lessons. The waterfall tears down what dams the awa.
The cry of the waterfall. Why Bakunin, why Aotearoa, why now — and how this course closes the AI Warrior thinkers series.
The Russian who split the First International, defended the Paris Commune, and warned that any state — even a workers' state — becomes a new prison.
Bakunin's free federation read alongside He Whakaputanga and tino rangatiratanga. Power binds upward from the hapū, never downward from Wellington.
How to tear down without nihilism. The waterfall as kaupapa: what falls feeds the awa, what is demolished irrigates the kāinga.
Chiapas to Ōtepoti. Autonomous councils, mandar obedeciendo, and what a Kiwi caracol looks like — marae, co-ops, learning circles, mutual-aid pātaka.
Bakunin called the state a machine. The machine is now literal. How federation, encryption, and refusal apply to platform capital and state AI.
From Gramsci to Bakunin in six thinkers. The toolkit, the refrain, the kaupapa for the next decade. E kore e mau te rongo ki te whenua kāore e watea.