I am being absolutely serious here with the Weimar Republic comparison. Because people are fucking miserable and it’s fucking terrifying.
A hundred years ago, broke people in big cities would go to fascist rallies because they were free, and because sometimes the organizers gave out free food and beer, and because people had nothing better to do.
And they stayed because hate feels good when you’re hurting and simple violent solutions appeal to the angry monkey parts of our brains.
And the fewer community connections you have - the more the economy strips your life down to work and sleep, or to job hunting and sleep, or to scrounging in the gutter to survive and sleep, and the less you go out and socialize with actual human beings - the more appealing the fascist illusion of unity, of being part of a powerful group, becomes.
And the only difference today is that the fascist rallies are beamed directly into your home.
This is also a simple solution meant to magically solve all problems, at least the “end capitalism” part is. Not that there aren’t other systems out there that societies could switch to. But capitalism is what’s currently keeping everyone alive. If you want to end it, you have to present a viable solution and a plan to get there.
“End Capitalism” works as a slogan, but it’s a fix all just the same.
Exactly. I believe capitalism must end, but if you aren’t working to build something better, trying to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent such issues in the future… then you’re setting yourself up for a lateral revolution at best.
Learn about how other societies have tried to resolve the issues you’re trying to deal with.
What’s keeping people alive is logistics and other peoples hard work. Not money.
Ultimately ecomic systems are a way to organizing production and distributing the products. So in other words logistics. Capitalism is a way of doing that. It has quite a few downsides, but for example fewer people have died due to starvation globally in the last 50years combined, as due to the Great Leap Forward alone. Capitalism is just not the worsed system we have tried.
It is, by far, as it will kill billions in the coming decades.
I can’t imagine people spouting this shit seriously.