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  • m13@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    1 year ago

    That’s not really true.

    Right now under the capitalist systems there are countless jobs that are detrimental to the world we live in, or don’t actually produce anything of tangible value.

    We would be a lot better off if a lot of people just didn’t do their “jobs”.

    We don’t need a hundred types of sugar water, Or McDonald’s plastic toys. Landlords, bankers, stock brokers, financial planners, most lawyers are all useless.

    Overpopulation is also a Malthusian myth. It isn’t that we have too many people. Under capitalism resources are not distributed well. It doesn’t make sense that most of us are working in a system that expects infinite growth with the finite resources our world is limited to. All in order to make a handful of people increasingly wealthy while the rest of us increasingly can’t afford to live a basic, simple life.

    We can and must work toward building a new system (spoiler: it’s called Anarchism) while dismantling the old, inefficient, destructive system we are currently forced to try to survive in.


  • “The enemy is both weak (children without the same mental capacity as a cop) and strong (professional agitators with a mastermind behind everything.)”

    Cops literally can’t imagine human beings organising organically as part of a community to achieve a common goal. There needs to be a hierarchy, someone “behind it”, or a “mastermind”. It couldn’t possibly be that these are just humans doing their best to try to stop a genocide by the machines of capitalism, colonialism, and the state.

    “Look they got water! Definitely a mastermind here!”









  • m13@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYeee yee
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    1 year ago

    To be “on the left” at minimum you need to be totally opposed to the capitalist system.

    From there, there are many ideologies to choose from whether authoritarian (like Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, Stalinism, etc.) or anti-authoritarian: mutualism, communalism, one of the many strains of anarchism, etc.

    Also if you’re authoritarian I’d say it’s questionable whether you’re still on the left.