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Author: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 15:35:34 +0100
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It is perhaps no surprise, then, that the most prominent hits on YouTube for this movement include channels that mix technical commentary with self-improvement talks and hard-right-wing political essays.
-There is no political purity test in Permacomputing. Some have blanched at the phrase "post-Marxist" on our web site (and somehow misread it as "you are required to be Marxist-Leninist" or something), but that's just one of many frameworks used to approach the topic. The unifying factor is our focus on building *communities* rather than *individuals*. This inevitably leads to strong scepticism around Libertarian schools of thought.
+There is no political purity test in Permacomputing. Some have blanched at the phrase "post-marxism" on [[the_front_page|index]] (and somehow misread it as "you are required to be Marxist-Leninist" or something), but that's just one of many frameworks used to approach the topic. The unifying factor is our focus on building *communities* rather than *individuals*. This inevitably leads to strong scepticism around Libertarian schools of thought.
This is not to say that personal empowerment is seen as a problem in Permacomputing circles! If anything, we hope to build systems that free indviduals to make more choices than they could under modern corporate-controlled computing. But we do not require individuals to pass some sort of skill test to join in.
