Sorry if this isn’t fully relevant, but no where else to ask it.

So I’ve ran into some technocrats a few times who proudly proclaim the achievements of technocracy. Naturally, the ideology seems opposed to communism, which suggests it is a bourgeois ideology.

What is technocracy, is it good or bad, and what are the best arguments to refute it?

    • loathesome dongeater
      6•3 years ago

      I’d argue there is little to no technocracy under capitalism. Taking the US for example, the policy to respond to COVID was not devised by experts. Same with the response to climate change. I’m sure there are many more examples.

      Sure there is an attempt to appear scientific but the ecologists who ask for an immediate action to reduce fossil fuel usage and the economists who ask for degrowth and reduction in consumption are ignored. Science is selectively chosen and sometimes mangled to uphold the status quo. The only experts in power are the warmongers and those who destabilise other countries.

      • Muad'DibberA
        2•3 years ago

        V good point, environmental scientists are completely ignored at this point by bourgeois democracies.

    • @The_Lobster_EmperorOP
      4•3 years ago

      Same hombre who’s trying to argue the “Holodomor” is exactly the same as the Holocaust is also an unironic technocrat. No idea whether they are pro or anti-socialist, but given the fact they’re super inclined to believe Nazi propaganda, I’d say they support capitalism.

      Turns out they also believe in eugenics: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/14965