As a planet, we have to address this issue of Sociopathic Oligarchs.
Address the corrosive effects of concentrated wealth by organizing labor into an equitable society ready to defend itself against imperial aggression
Don’t get called a Tankie on the internet
You gotta pick one.
We can’t just do it in our country, or they will set up shop somewhere else, and abuse us from a distance.
I mean, we can just do it in our country. And then we can support our peers abroad in their own efforts to do it in their countries. And this is what we’d call a Worker’s International.
But… eventually, we’d have to come into conflict with the armed agents of capital. And we’d have to fight them, with many of use dying in the struggle. And if we did this kind of conflict, we’d benefit from some kind of mobile artillery system capable of both shielding us from small arms fire and responding with explosive ordinance.
And oops, now we’re Tankies.
I don’t see how that happens, when nearly anyone can be turned by a billion dollar bribe.
Anyone can be turned, but not everyone can be turned. That’s the whole prestige of capitalism in the modern era. You get people on board by promising them that they’ll be rich one day, too. And if you string enough people along for long enough, you can extract their labor from the economy with a promise of future comfort and economic security nearly indefinitely.
Or, at least until the people you’re stringing along exceed the volume of resources at your disposal. Then you need to thin the herd a bit or risk sharing the wealth.
So its Socialism or Barbarism. But there’s no ending where we all just get to be billionaires.
Address the corrosive effects of concentrated wealth by organizing labor into an equitable society ready to defend itself against imperial aggression
Don’t get called a Tankie on the internet
You gotta pick one.
I mean, we can just do it in our country. And then we can support our peers abroad in their own efforts to do it in their countries. And this is what we’d call a Worker’s International.
But… eventually, we’d have to come into conflict with the armed agents of capital. And we’d have to fight them, with many of use dying in the struggle. And if we did this kind of conflict, we’d benefit from some kind of mobile artillery system capable of both shielding us from small arms fire and responding with explosive ordinance.
And oops, now we’re Tankies.
Anyone can be turned, but not everyone can be turned. That’s the whole prestige of capitalism in the modern era. You get people on board by promising them that they’ll be rich one day, too. And if you string enough people along for long enough, you can extract their labor from the economy with a promise of future comfort and economic security nearly indefinitely.
Or, at least until the people you’re stringing along exceed the volume of resources at your disposal. Then you need to thin the herd a bit or risk sharing the wealth.
So its Socialism or Barbarism. But there’s no ending where we all just get to be billionaires.
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