Youth suing: "I'm forced to stay inside," and "things are getting worse."
  • Blake [he/him]
    26•9 months ago

    As much as I support this, it’s not going to win this fight.

    We keep fighting them by their rules, with their systems, and in the places where they are strong.

    The law, the politicians, the media and the wealthy are all on their side.

    Peaceful protest, legal battles, voting, the free market, regulation, international summits, agreements, accords, and treaties, all of these things have failed.

    The time has long since passed to take action into our own hands and remind the ruling class who they should be afraid of.

    If you’re reading this and you agree, don’t just upvote and move along. Join the IWW, search online for groups organising direct action in your area, learn about mutual aid and get out there. Share the message far and wide. We can’t just sit back and tell each-other that if we vote for the right people it’ll end this shit, because it won’t.

      • Blake [he/him]
        3•9 months ago

        You’re totally wrong, we don’t need to form any sort of formal organisation, and nobody needs to directly risk their lives in conflict.

        All that we need to do is spread the message, build alternative structures - for example, workers co-operatives and housing co-operatives - and then when we have alternative structures capable of supporting it, we can collectively withhold our labour from the ruling class, causing it to collapse.

        I don’t know whether or not they would let this happen peacefully, they would probably start trying to use violence against us once they realise the position that they’re in, but we should be completely capable of defending ourselves at that point.

        The other benefit is that this doesn’t really need much large-scale organisation - if we focus on building systems that support us and our communities, then we kind of cut the state out automatically - if we no longer rely on it, then it doesn’t have that power over us anymore, and all it comes down to, is can they force us to serve them again? And if they can, we’re just slaves anyways.

          • Blake [he/him]
            2•9 months ago

            No, that’s not quite right.

            So right now, people pay rent for shelter, they buy food, they need to pay for childcare and all that kind of stuff.

            Imagine that we collectively got people progressively into housing co-operatives, and we got more food co-operatives set up to grow and process food, and we used mutual aid more and more for tasks like childcare.

            Progressively, the need for money becomes less and less. Eventually it reaches a point where all it takes is a small push to get people to just stop doing any work that isn’t part of their mutual aid efforts, and capitalism collapses.

              • Blake [he/him]
                3•9 months ago

                It sure is. Beyond socialism, even. And it’ll happen, no doubt about it, it’s unstoppable. The only question is how much suffering will have to happen before we get there.

                Capitalism will collapse, it’s guaranteed - there’s not really anywhere else for it to go. We’re already witnessing it.

                We can either implement an alternative before it breaks down to manage the demise properly and sensibly, or we can just all hang around and watch it fall apart and crash and burn, causing a ton of suffering in the process.

  • @MisterD@lemmy.ca
    13•9 months ago

    Once people start starving because of climate change, private planes and ICE cars and trucks might not fair well