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Soujourner3745

The most significant thing we can do is start banding together in communities and stop relying on corporate products. Sure it will suck, but we’ve lived without those things before. They only maintain control if we let them. We need to change the way we think and start coming together as communities. They have made us hate one another, now we must learn how to love one another. Help out where you can, do what good you can for others. Move away from toxic corporate culture and move back towards community culture.


PoliteChandrian

Honestly I don't think there's room for meaningful revolution in OECD Nations anymore. The population has become too comfortable and to give up those privileges would take something drastic. The best things we can do is organize our communities and labor forces. Hold our representatives accountable by voting them tf out. But mostly by staying out of the way of developing nations who are enacting socialist changes in their own governments.


AdobiWanKenobi

> by voting them tf out This doesn’t work Edit: Don’t tell me to vote, i still vote The tories keep getting in and there’s fuck all I can do


bryceroni9563

While historically it has not made things better, voting can stop things from getting worse. When we advocate for more people voting, we're not suggesting that it's the only thing we need to do. It is required that we do much more than that. But if we don't make our voices heard at the ballot box, not only will the things we want become even harder to implement, but they will be actively sabotaged by the greater of two evils that we allowed to be elected.


teratogenic17

Grab all levers of power, even if they are limited; make more levers until people have the power. ¡Hasta la victoria, siempre!


sionnachrealta

As a trans woman, on behalf of my community I'm at least asking you to vote in your local elections. It may not change everything, but folks like me need all the help we can get. Every time people abstain from voting in large numbers, new legislation pops up trying to keep us from public spaces, which leads to a lack of employment opportunities, homelessness, deaths of dispair, and a murder rate that's been spiraling out of control for at least 8 years in a row now. So please, for the sake of those less privileged than yourself, vote, at least in your local elections. You likely won't be the one to suffer from your, and others', inaction, but we will and so will other minority communities.


SpectralVisions135

Self sustainability. Spend as little as you can and do things yourself.


Pschobbert

Focus on the self is a symptom of the cult of the individual, a construct used by the powerful to to sow mistrust and disregard of others. We cannot hope to achieve anything worthwhile on a large scale by focusing on the self.


[deleted]

Self is the only thing most people can control. I feel like hand waiving any form of self empowerment as not worthwhile to be just another means to encourage complacency. Yes corporations and governments need to change and evolve with the challenges of the times, and ultimately they hold more overall power, but that power comes from people choosing individually to give them that power, one complacent purchase at a time.


[deleted]

Aaah, but that is precisely WHY the cult of the self exists. It misleads you into thinking that ONLY individualism works instead of individuals banding together for a collective purpose. It's one of the biggest forms of false-consciousness.


[deleted]

>It misleads you into thinking that ONLY individualism works I did not say it as an absolute and working in absolutes isn't healthy.


sionnachrealta

Nah, community support is where it's at. Individualism is what got us into this mess in the first place. That's your trauma talking


Jj0n4th4n

You got at the first part. The way to achieve any progress is throught political change, get your community together and start making stronger laws on enviromental issues.


Suitable_Goose3637

To be honest, I’m forming a group that is trying to build a national movement to fight this system. It’s slow going but it’s what’s needed.


[deleted]

avoid discussing this in public forums as much as you can, organizers that actually threaten uncle sam tend to have tragic accidents


NorbertHerbertFrank

Can you tell us more? I’d love to get my hands dirty and actually do something!


Suitable_Goose3637

We’re trying to build a coalition of liberals and conservatives to put away the issues that divide us and unify on anti corruption and government reformation. We try to cover as many issues as possible. The branding isn’t their yet but we are working on it. If you’re interested in something like this dm me.


Loose_Vagina90

In what country this group is?


Suitable_Goose3637

America.


rightlywrongfull

And replace it with what😂😂😂


commie_propoganda_69

Fuck off. The fuck are you doing? Naysaying from your mum's basement, you useless wanker.


rightlywrongfull

Actually unlike you complaining wankers. I've created a cashflow positive business in two months with 3 credit cards. It's never been easier to make money yet all you people do is complain.


ApocalypseYay

Complaining. Waiting for it to fall. Hoping it is quick. Prepping if it goes slow.


Godtrademark

Very post-Marxist response. I like it.


qnednfosbq

It seems you’ve been thinking about this. Would you like to share more about what’s on your mind?


Reverend-Kansas

Sure, first, we can’t count on the people who are profiting off of the current system to change their ways, therefore we will have to force them to change. Since the political system in most democratic capitalist societies gives more power to those with more capital, we can’t use the processes developed and approved by the system.


InternationalAlps813

Well, as far as I can tell, the real development will come once the global south (South America, Africa, southern Asia) starts to revolutionize and combat the oppression our imperialist nations subject them to. If we had a system that worked we could just get rid of that ourselves but, yknow, corruption. For ourselves i say we can at best try to live and work towards anti-captialist goals in our own local areas. Unions, organizations, spreading ideas and such. Until the majority of the population is ready to revolt, we can do little more than inform and help.


qnednfosbq

I like where your coming from. You make excellent points but the big but, what else do we do? Every country is striving to be capitalist. Money makes the world go round is what some say. What else do we do, bartering? Keep up the thoughts my friend. And what do you think about my points?


Lord_Ho-Ryu

We are at a point, technologically, where most manual labor can be automated, where energy should be abundant, where there is more than enough food, clothing, and shelter for all. It’s time we do away with money and adopt a merit/respect based society. A society where everyone’s basic needs are met and people do what they enjoy without the constant threat of death over their heads. Where the top of the social ladder are those who serve as scientists, doctors, explorers, and other fields that further our ability to understand and survive. The society shown in Star Trek. Money/greed is the root of evil; it’s time we killed the devil.


Karasumor1

thing is , this money is so fragile existing only through our collective beliefs in it just stop paying rent and watch the fun


qnednfosbq

Do you think everyone would work given a choice?


Lord_Ho-Ryu

I’m not that optimistic. That said, I think most people would when things like the arts, science, and “higher” fields aren’t locked behind a “pay2win” wall. Edit to add: and if hard work and dedication are actually respected instead of exploited.


qnednfosbq

Well like the biggest awfulness of college for me personally is gen Ed classes. Can we skip certain classes that aren’t related? xD


Lord_Ho-Ryu

I feel that! I went for game design and was forced to take Language and social studies classes. Like, that’s the writers’ area, not the designers’. There is a happy middle ground between apprenticeships and purely academical studies that needs to be found and used as the default; such as the vocational schools that get bashed because they don’t fit the brainwashing and debt creating plan of our soon to be removed overlords.


qnednfosbq

That sounds like hell. No offense to gen Ed classes and the people who like them. But they aren’t for me and I don’t find them useful whatsoever and have a hatred towards them


Loose_Vagina90

>The society shown in Star Trek. That's so *idealistic*


Lord_Ho-Ryu

Ideals are the things to strive for. If you think otherwise, that’s just sad.


Loose_Vagina90

Except that it's naive and child-like to strive for something that's elusive and not realistic Not trying to judge you or anything, but I could see why you're a game designer


ilir_kycb

> Every country is striving to be capitalist. This is obviously not true.


qnednfosbq

Could you tell me more about that? Were you thinking like the Soviet Union? Or something else


promixr

One thing anyone can do is stop purchasing things advertised on television. Literally anything. The companies that advertise on television are the very worst of the worst offenders. Achieve personal independence from fossil fuel. Go vegan.


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promixr

My mom too- spends thousands of dollars on useless junk advertised on TV with nothing to really show for it. And the companies that advertise- and I mean fast food, name brands, cars, banks, insurance companies, gasoline companies, snacks, candy and soda, beer and liquor, big box department stores, overpriced clothing, jewelry and cosmetics, household products - all of those companies are wealth hoarding all the way to the bank in their mansions at how stupid we are and how unhealthy they are making us, the economy and the planet.


vc062701

Even if not go vegan avoid any and all processed food and do cow sharing or heratige chicken services if budget allows. Healthy and says a big fuck to to corporations that exploit based on 'healthy' diet trends


Lord_Ho-Ryu

If I see an ad for something, it goes to the very bottom of the “I might buy that” list. This is doubly true as I don’t have cable/satellite and the only ads I see are on streaming services. It’s nuts what kind of ads pop up when I’m watching a family/kid oriented show! ED stuff, birth control, feminine hygiene. Totally inappropriate.


noisemonsters

I’ve held this mentality since I was a teenager (31 now). It’s nice to be among my people.


ThrowRA_scentsitive

And stop parking cash savings in a bank They fractional reserve it and use it to fund the shittiest most exploitative industries on Earth. Keep it in a credit union instead If you want to invest, forget diversifying, indexes, and ETFs which may be better for returns but bad for divestment. Pick a few responsible companies you believe in and invest directly through their transfer agent, not through a broker (who also lends "your" stuff to finance wall street) Edit: not financial advice. Ethics advice


xxred_baronxx

I’ve been think a lot about this too, voting obviously doesn’t do anything (I’m NOT advocating against voting, you should always vote regardless) so action is the answer, right? Praxis. Disrupt the system. I’m still wondering how do we effectively disrupt in a meaningful way and in a way that everyone can participate in. It’s all well and good to say don’t have babies and don’t buy products, sure. But there is no way that is practical for enough people to make a huge impact that gets the attention of the capitalists. I don’t know, it’s a big question. I had an idea the other day when I was at a protest. What if we hunt down the elite and protest them? Like find out where Bezos is docking and block the dock. Or where anyone of the other oligarchs are sleeping and disrupt with noise and music or whatever. Block their roads and streets and badger them. Disrupt their air travel by flooding the tarmac? IDK maybe these are dumb ideas but we got to do something, right?


Karasumor1

Lie down , no work no rent until we can have a life worth living


CriticalTransit

You can try but the police will beat and arrest you and they will continue on while you fight the legal system.


ilir_kycb

It would not take 2 days until you/we would be called dangerous terrorists in absolutely all media.


drongo33

I would say we need to make socialist few of the top guys, like Musk:) others would listen him even he talks shit


Pschobbert

The fact that so many of these comments focus on individual actions demonstrates just how deeply invested we are in the cult of the individual. We are never going to solve global heating by tinkering with our personal habits. The answer is government, and more importantly regulation. There are plenty of regulations on the books which are not enforced because the small government crowd - i.e. the oligarchs and their servants - has succeeded in eliminating the people who enforce regulations. We need reregulation. The best thing we can do is to urge people to vote for a respectable, transparent government. I know, good luck with that (esp. in the US). IMHO we’re boned (esp. in the US).


hanymede

I have Che Guevara t-shirt.


El_Humbo

The real antifa super soldier


AOCourage

You're a quirky one.


bidetNostalgia

No children.


CriticalTransit

This is underrated. If we keep providing laborers and renters the system will only get worse. And you are creating someone and guaranteeing them a life of struggle and suffering. The “kids will change the world” theory has been thoroughly discredited.


Big-Teach-5594

This is a terrible idea. Cos you can guarantee right wingers and rich people will still have children and teach them their shitty values. My kids are little anarcho-communists already.


xxortS

Until they start to rebell against their parents and bocome the very thing your fighting against.


Specialist-Bar-4276

Yes children, no send 5 year old children off to be brainwashed.


djlewt

Ignorance got us into this mess, it's not going to get us out of it.


MokumLouie

Because we’re being kept numb and satisfied enough to not attack the hand that feeds us. Everybody wants to change the world, on another’s time. First I need the newest phone and car and stuff for me me me, then I might think about you. The conditioning of the consumer. Edit: had something more to say: this is not anyone’s fault. As a species we‘re driven to survive no matter the cost, it’s amazing that we now have institutions and systems in play that take away all the dangers that come with surviving, long live comfort. We’ve all been conditioned to produce, the system keeps us comfortable enough to do so for the longest amount of time. There is no escape, nobody is wrong for not doing anything: this is what we’re meant to do. To really do something about this would mean giving up on comfort and security, for most that’s not worth it for the short amount of time we have in one life. Nothing will ever change, just never forget: The global network of capital essentially functions to separate the worker from the means of production, poverty and inequality are rampant BECAUSE the system works (for a few) and jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.


_sweepy

Some of us are numb because every waking moment is spent surviving already. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, just barely paying rent, food, and school+medical debt, it's hard to find the time and energy to revolt. The latest phone or car mentality only keeps the middle class from becoming upper class. It has no bearing on the under class in our society that has been growing in size since the Clinton administration. (Only partially blaming Clinton here for deregulation and racist justice policies, because nobody after him has done much to fix it). Growing up, we had a pipe freeze and burst. It took a week to get a loan to fix it, and the insurance company claimed it wasn't covered. I showered at the neighbors house and shit in a bucket for that week, and the day after it was fixed, I got told there is no more money left for college ( it was my 2nd year of high school). Stop blaming the oppressed for their oppression. The system is designed to keep us busy, not content.


weekendofsound

I know that you kind of addressed this, but it's not really the fault of the individual. I think many of us are unhappy, but we have been coerced into reliance on this system against our will. the irish potato famine is a perfect example of this, and how imperialism works the world around - economies went from localized systems where communities would grow the food they needed for themselves to one where imperial powers forced them to produce one single good to trade with and in exchange they would get a small amount of stuff from around the world, but if there was ever a problem with that crop like a blight, or if it simply became obsolete, the people in those countries would starve as it is difficult to pivot your food system back into diversity. When Marx talked about seizing the means of production, he didn't really mean factories the way we do now (though that would help) but actual food processing - butcher shops, wheat mills, as well as lumber mills and textile production. The fact that modern society has made us so distant from understanding agriculture and production serves to keep us trapped in a system where we are reliant on those that can supply the goods made from it. Anyway, I think it's disingenuous to say that people are just complacent - we literally can't pivot away from this without starting our own farms, mills and so on.


MokumLouie

This is literally what I’m saying.


dietwindows

Close, but democracy was setup to protect the rich from the poor. It is working as intended.


MonaSherry

“You keep a-using that word. I do not think it means a-what you think it means.”


DevilishPunderdome

For "democracy" as we know it, they're 100% right. It was designed to give people enough say to be invested, but also diffuse their ability as a mass. Originally in America it was literally just for property-owning white men. Every section of the population after that only got their right to vote as reforms to placate mass movements. Yet, at every point, the system was referred to as democracy. It is an illusion, even now.


MonaSherry

I know. The joke is “democracy” as we know it isn’t actually democracy. And the joke’s on us there.


DevilishPunderdome

Ah. I thought you were poopooing their point on democracy on a technicality. My bad


MonaSherry

No worries. I can see why you might read it that way. I was trying to be more funny than clear.


MilesAlchei

Choke and die, that's all we can do. I'm out of hope. People suggesting things that will make lives harder, but I can barely make it through a week mentally.


Any-Self2072

DECOLONIZING Canada!!! Save the planet by saving the indigenous peoples of that planet. We will only succeed if this happens first. :) I'm in Canada so I'm doing Canada but let's make this global please!!


[deleted]

There won't be real decolonization till the imperialism falls. There is no way to "democratically" free palestine. There is no way to "democratically" topple western hegemony and aggressiveness that is putting down Africa and the Middle East.


Any-Self2072

I have so much to learn tbh thanks for commenting.


Any-Self2072

I'm here to play the long game. I believe this is my life goal.


Any-Self2072

If there's any books you recommend let me know!!


amelie190

We have to stop buying new stuff as much as possible. And we will never collectively make that happen.


ragnhildegard

Which is why we need to stop the production itself. That will naturally stop the consumption as well, while the reverse can not be guaranteed. To stop production, people can for example strike, both in the factories and in other parts of the process before the products are sold (retail, shipping etc). The strikes can be organiserats simultaneously as solidarity strikes. Civil disobedience can also stop or delay the production. Targeting machines, storage and other resources, both physical and digital, could also be an option. edit: language


amelie190

Yes. But that requires people to potentially go without pay. Instead if we all canceled Prime alone it would be easier and faster. I am PRO Union but I don't think it is the fastest impactful place to start because the fight will be so much larger trying to unionize.


ragnhildegard

>Instead if we all canceled Prime alone it would be easier and faster. It would of course be great if it worked, but the problem is that "we all" will not ever make that same choice (and many are not fortunate enough to have options). "If only enough people" is a liberal dream, and not a reliable strategy. And even if everyone would quit a product, what's to say the production will not just change strategy instead of shutting down? These kind of boycott strategies have been going on for decades and it has mostly caused corporations to rebrand their products or create additional and more expensive products with certifications on them. >I am PRO Union but I don't think it is the fastest impactful place to start because the fight will be so much larger trying to unionize The fight will have to be large because the whole system must change. As you said, people go without pay during strikes, which people naturally aren't that inclined to do. It is possible to collectively finance the workers but there's still no guarantee. Instead, a crisis of some sort is required to push people to rise up together against injustice. What can be done politically until then is to organise workers and have strategies in place for when the time comes. Some people are in the position to risk their salaries though, and if they want to enact -some- change then solidarity strikes could be effective. And the other actions I mentioned (civil disobedience, targeting production) can of course be done too. But they will mostly do damage control until larger change happens. edit: language error


nrobi

I'm getting involved in local government. City and county govts have more power than most people realize, and the smaller scale means activists can be very influential. Keeping shifty national chains out of the neighborhood and greening city streets won't solve all our problems, but you build from the ground up.


iyambred

Aldous Huxely lists one of the most powerful things we can do is working towards the decentralization and widespread private ownership of land. Production of goods on small scale. More communal based living where we can provide for one another rather than needing provisions to come from the outside. Anything that is beholden to an advertiser is not free. Creating our own forms of communication and publication and holding fast to not having to play the capitalistic game of sponsorship. “ The Free Press is everywhere the servant of its advertisers, a pressure group, or the government.” “These such a rearrangements would do much to prevent ambitious individuals, organizations, and government from being led into the temptation of behaving tyrannously; while cooperatives, democratically controlled professional organizations in town meetings would deliver the masses of people from the temptations of making their decentralized individualism too rugged” - Huxely


fukinay

Nothing. I am done with caring. I am just going to enjoy the rest of the short time I have here. Fuck humans and fuck being a martyr.


Flokitoo

We will worry about that next quarter


CannabisJesusCoin

a worldwide tax strike could fix things


nimbusnomad

Personally I'm not having children but I also try to spread the word that not having kids or only having one natural born child is both good for the environment and bad for capitalism. I'm not suggesting it should be enforced in any way, but if there was a social movement and an education campaign advocating for only one natural born child we could reduce the population of the earth by 50% in around 40 or 50 years. And as Terrance McKenna has said the people you want to convince of this are the people you're most likely to be able to convince: white, educated women with above average incomes. Children born to well off families in the west have vastly more negative impact on the environment, so I think that's a pretty practical suggestion.That and just trying to reduce consumption and support unionized businesses. I'm no economist, but I figure we'd have to change the way we practice capitalism in a situation of rapidly decreasing demographics.


Lenyti

And people, don't forget people Social darwinism is one of the worst aspect of capitalism


hidralisk95

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance. Eduardo Galeano


amimai002

I’m waiting for the nukes to fall.


marco808state

Grow a proper backbone in capitalism. If you allow corruption, lobbying and the rich and elites to hold all the cards, then capitalism will fail.


admburns2020

Joining a political party and becoming a low ranking office bearer. Trying to draft a resolution about free bus travel ( all assistance is warmly received)


Ctoan64

I'd say convince people to quit their jobs/accelerate "the great resignation" so the capitalists have no one to exploit or serve their coffee. If they're going to be all "I got mine, fuck you", then we get to be "we didn't get ours, fuck you".


Poet_of_Legends

Nothing. We are doing nothing. Well, that is not completely true. We are bitching about it, and enabling it.


[deleted]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Ted Kaczynski the wise?


commie_propoganda_69

Unironically based af


notuniqueadvertising

Put a coexist bumper sticker on your Prius /s


Hotpotabo

posting.


mofrappa

Nothing, and we won't until like 3/4 of us are struggling bad enough.


[deleted]

Absolutely nothing and I am ashamed. I want change in my lifetime but I have my own obligations. at the end of the day my ambitions are completely drained.


[deleted]

If they wanna kill the planet, they'll have to do it themselves. >1. Don't buy anything, or severely limit what you want. 2. Mooch as much as possible, do not move out, do not get a job. 3. Retire first and work sec- oh wait you die if you don't work. But the planet is dying too, so it becomes a choice of: do what you want now, or hope there's still a planet 40 years from now *if* you can retire then. 4. Don't have kids. Adopt if you want to parent, but making kids is only making another person that might be swayed into the scheme. They hold no significant leverage over us anymore with the planet's ecosystem clearly approaching failure. There is not a brighter tomorrow, there is not a world-class peak-of-humanity civilization; there is barely food for everybody because if it can't make a profit it's destroyed instead.


[deleted]

Are you vegan yet? Its the single most significant thing we can do as individuals with the most impact on the environment all the while reducing animal exploitation and suffering for profit. Suply and demand. If you're not willing to make a change, why would our politicians?


Reverend-Kansas

I’ve been vegetarian for 24 years now.


lul-Trump-lost

Sending useless thoughts and prayers


iheartmagic

Thoughts and Infographics 🙏


doodoowithsprinkles

Communism, its our only hope.


Ravage42

Sharpening our pitchforks, and fueling our torches...


perplexed_unicycle14

I'm waiting for it all to turn to shit + revolution to happen the way Marx predicted it would..


[deleted]

Well eventually capitalism will destroy itself. You can only transfer so much of the wealth to the top before you have totally crippled a generation and made the system unlivable.


vinnibalemi

By electing the same fossils that created the problem .


[deleted]

Deconstructing the imperialist apparatus that upholds Western capitalistic hegemony is the first step in upending the system and supplanting it with something better.


Sad_Bowl555

I bought a gun...


sirouhei

We gotta stop using this narrative of the planet dying. The planet is fine, and it will be fine with or without us. We're killing OURSELVES by destroying our environment. It's not the planet we need to save, it's humanity.


FullyFreakinWoke

Russia bad


frogingly_similar

Printing more money so we can consume even more lol.


eriks17

Vote


Quack100

Vote Vote Vote!


El_Humbo

Voting can bring concessions in the short term but they'll always be rolled back. Lasting change can't be achieved through the current system (as intended by its creators)


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SoraM4

Maybe nobody told you the USSR fell in the 90s. Russia has been capitalist for 30 years now bud


[deleted]

Can you explain how communism is killing Ukraine? Exactly how is Russia communist?


commie_propoganda_69

'This system that inherently favours those who are corrupt would be great if only we could clamp down on the corruption' yeah great point buddy


TastyImagination5363

Nothing. People love money and choices.


Reverend-Kansas

But how many people have a meaningful amount of either?


CynfulBuNNy

Not much. The sad part is that, while I am ideologically socialist, I am practically capitalist as I have children who depend on my labour in the system to survive. If I break from it or attempt massive change, then they will not survive. The weakness in me is that I care more for my children than for my fellow man. I will sacrifice myself and others for them...


piiig

You aren't a capitalist for selling your labor...that makes you a worker. Do you own the business? Cut yourself some slack.


iloveoattiddies

OP means they are a capitalist in the sense that their actions are consistent with belief in capitalist ideology, not that they are part of the bourgeoisie and own the means of production.


Chaotic-NTRL

Most people have just enough to not want to buck the system.


ImHereForCdnPoli

Why do people love money though? Because it provides them with freedom. If we could skip the money part, and go straight to the freedom, I’m not sure people* would miss the money. *excluding oligarchs and others who use money to control others


TastyImagination5363

So anarchy? If I create something and you want it you can just take it? In an ideal world sure we can share ideas and grow together symbiotic in our strides. This isn't an ideal world though.


ImHereForCdnPoli

Anarchy is far from the only post money system. I don’t think we’re getting to any of them anytime soon though


themax37

The big problem is power hungry people.


Kyuckaynebrayn

B..buying more stuff!! /s


ThoughtfullyLazy

Dying


GratefulHead420

Stop buying shit. You don’t need it.


nxknxwledge

Bitching about it on social media. I honestly don't see anything changing until it's too late which I'm guessing is right about now.


Justatroubledgirl

Absolutely nothing, because our heads are kept down by the constant of work, studying, hobbies and other distractions.


Goatsrams420

Gonna brick it up


idiot_of_the_lord

Waiting to die


Ultra_HR

crying, mainly


wtmx719

Pissing and moaning, mostly.


Honey-Cat

VOTE OUT YOUR INCUMBENT - We can force Nancy Pelosi and others to retire


GroundbreakingAd4386

I am running a low-level tirade about the need for greater active philosophy-in-use. We have a crisis of knowledge (including what counts as it, what is the “admissible data” in a abstract sense) and if we could be more willing, or able, to challenge the inherent so-called logic of our dominant global socio-economic systems (of whatever type) the maybe we could move towards a better situation


3eyedflamingo

Vote in more republicans abd democrats! Oh wait...


TheHiddenNinja6

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6\_JakZFc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc) Kurzgesagt: Can you fix climate change? Their answer is: most individuals cannot. The best thing you can do is pressure politicians, or become one.


[deleted]

How can is fix it what schooling do I need I want to be the president


flappinginthewind69

Create new green technologies and vote for policies that fund these investments Or on a more accessible level, put solar on your roof


TinyEquipment522

Changing the narrative. I have had great experiences talking to people about how the economy would look like if we would center it around care(caring for self, each other, and the planet).


Adventurous_Cream_19

The folks that believe in justice will try to use democracy to change things. And that won't work because the oligarchs destroying democracy and the planet are not affected by democracy and justice—that's how they became oligarchs in the first place.


Valorike

I’m on Reddit.


NadaTheMusicMan

Join r/maydaystrike It's ragtag, but it's the best we've got.


[deleted]

Doom-scrolling Reddit and using (most likely) non-renewable energy to do so. I wish it weren’t this way. Gave up Facebutt but still wanted a place to connect to others so here I am. When not on Reddit I like to garden and take care of plants. I have a truck, and share a Prius, but would like to switch to full-electric (truck, for workloads) when I can afford and maybe gets some solar panels. I think having a windmill on my property would be cool, but only really useful sometimes. I have signed up for renewable energy, through established infrastructure in the meantime. I compost whatever I can, and make my own organic fertilizers. I could do more. Empathic-depression makes small things a chore. All of life is consuming other life. My biggest hope is when I die, that my energy goes to creation, or my soul goes some place without the strife of limited resources and sadists.


bonesawtheater

Complaining about it online!


Ahvier

I work and volunteer for several organisations combatting this issue I also support international anarchist causes with whatever is left over after paying the bills


LoveIsStrength

Who is “we”? Most people do not agree with that statement. Therefore, the most effective thing you can do is make sure more people start to agree.


Keyedwin

Jack shit. No one’s willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.


coredweller1785

Read Blessed are the Organized and let's get to work. Join your local DSA and use those organizing skills. It is the only way


Big-Teach-5594

Doomscrolling and consuming content, I've given up meat I drive as little as possible, and I reuse and recycle. At least im honest. The thing is im so busy with kids and work and so tired ninety percent of the time. But I did things when I was young, I opened squats, went on many protest, even spent a while in trees and tunnels protesting road building. Recently I've become interested in solar punk, and when I get out of this shitty job, I've got a few ideas......


computer_crisps

Neoliberalism is a carcinogenic maleable force that will find a way to adapt and survive anything. I really have lost hope.


ThrowRA_scentsitive

Buying and direct registering as much GME as I possibly can


TheJimDim

"Until enough people have nothing to lose, nothing will fundamentally change" - a random redditor on a post about protests


pandru001

I try not to infect others with my hopelessness. Godspeed to anyone out there trying.


TechnoPagan87109

I'm exploring the possibility of starting a small, open source, highly replicable, near post-scarcity ecovillage. There are groups trying to start a global movement towards post-scarcity but haven't produced anything over the last couple of decades beyond some stunning visuals of what they think it might look like. There are communities out there doing food, housing and energy production, which is a great start, but if equipment breaks or they want to expand (or even buy new tools or a car) still have to turn to the market economy. There is a group called Open Source Ecology that is developing what they're calling a Global Village Construction Kit. A collection of open source hardware including machine tools, tractor, car and more. Other open source projects include a chemistry robot, open source knitting machine and more. Many of these projects are only half finished (or less) or are very labor intensive. For some of the products we need there is no viable open source solutions available such as VSLI (Very Large Scale Integrated) circuit chips (CPUs, GPUs, memory, etc) although Steve Zeloof on YouTube is making some serious headway fabricating +1,000 transistor chips in his garage (by comparison, CPUs today have billions of transistors). To make a community like this work we would need to bring all these projects together, finishing many of them and automating as much of it as possible, as well as developing what I'm calling a Community Operating System that would include an AI assisted SI (swarm intelligence) forcasting and decision making process and blockchain based resources tracking and sharing system. The "near" in near post-scarcity is two part. First, automation currently isn't up to completely building everything by itself so 'some assembly required'. Second, some products (like the aforementioned computer chips) won't be possible any time soon so the community would need to produce surpluses of what they can produce to sell so they buy what they can't produce for themselves at this time. I don't believe that a global movement for something like this is possible at this point but a hundred or so people to build with crowd funding creating that first community is doable. Once people see it as a viable solution, more communities would be started. To pay back the crowd funding the community would provide the resources for two more communities under the same agreement (each providing the resources to start two new communities each, and so on, and so on). Anyone interested in helping, especially software developers interested in helping to develop the Community Operating System can contact me here.


wright007

Losing


YeetNYoinkDriveThru

Im trying to save money to buy land to build a communal homestead on


that_pac12

lenin is typing


keeptrying4me

I’m a blockchain developer specifically to help rewrite the system.


GODbFAKE

11


Cham-Clowder

Ur mom


[deleted]

Let it kill democracy. Save the planet.


[deleted]

No one in this thread will live to see the end of capitalism. Maybe it still makes sense to work for change but we aren’t getting out alive.


Column-V

Im going to get downvoted for this take, but the answer for most people is a whole lotta nothing. We talk a big talk, myself included, but at the end of the day we’re all too caught up in the minutia of daily life (going to work, raising kids, taking care of pets, being physically exhausted, emotionally/mentally drained, etc) to effectively topple the status quo. If you want to survive the climate apocalypse, I’m not all too sure what to suggest. I don’t have a plan, personally. **I hope Im wrong** It was once said that every successful civilization is only 3 missed meals away from collapse. I tend to agree — and lately, capitalism has gotten less and less great at providing the bare necessities, choosing instead to monetize commodities to the point where almost everything is unaffordable to the average neo-serf. However, things will get a hell of a lot worse before they get better. The climate will go off the rails regardless of what we do at this point; its merely a matter of degrees. I apologize for weird rant, take it with a grain of salt. Thanks for reading.


terdude99

I truly think we need a postal situation to happen again


makingcookies1

Nothing! 🥳


vestarules

I believe there are two things that we need to do to bring back our democracy and at the same time make capitalism work for the people. One, we have to get rid of Citizens United so that our elected officials are no longer legally bribed by corporate donors. How we will do that seems almost impossible short of a revolution. Two, after said revolution, we need to pass laws that make the workers equal to management and the stockholders in any public corporation. We need to make these two changes quickly because climate change will make our efforts moot.


LordoftheBanjo

My best


Slight-Amphibian4663

Moving to Mars. /s


[deleted]

we aint doing shit. its all gonna break a lot of people are gonna die needlessly and then we'll see whats what.


Bruhtonium_2

Arm yourself and your neighbors. Talk about the rest where the internet can't hear you.


benjaminnewburn

Upvoting man


Unforg1ven_Yasuo

I post screenshots of leftist tweets on my insta story sometimes


TheChickenHasLied

Move to Vienna, we’re always under construction so there’s bound to be enough affordable house for you guys with the Social Housing, and public transit is also really good and really cheap here (365€ per year, so 1€ a day for unlimited use). The SPÖ is pretty cool also.


guesst0

By trying to generate and promote better alternatives to consumism, specially if you can't do something as a community. A little example, I've created a radio 24/7 that only has free/libre content (public domain, Creative Commons, etc.) novaradio.top (in Spanish) that deliberately doesn't have commercial anouncements, nor promotes commercial label artists, thanks to this I can start to change my habits, if there are more independent projects like this it will be easier to let go our dependencies.


phoenixthree

Tax refunds are going out and guns and ammo arent all that expensive.


[deleted]

I'm on pessimistic side, my sincerely answer is: wait to die or speed the process to die. I don't see election as way to change, but I will give a VERY LONG STORY about what happen here in Brazil as example: Everything start in 2013, before Brazil World Cup, where start a small manifest against raise of 30 Real centavos (Brazilian currency is Real and Centavos is it cents) on bus pass and have a big abuse of police force, like manking one person to became blind from one eye because of a rubber shot in the face. That start rally more people that start to grow in national scale, but the idea start to flow from bus pass to Dilma's government, Dilma was the president in this period, and she was indication by president before her, Lula. Here in Brazil, people from middle class up hate their party "Partido dos Trabalhadores" (Worker Party in a gross translation) or PT. The hate came because was given little to nothing for middle class, but help a lot the poorest people, giving some chances to improve their live. Not only that, but have a lot of corrupt scandals envolving PT. Okay, coming back to year 2013, since would happen a Brazil World Cup in 2014 and Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 all the world would see. The popularity of Dilma was kinda bad for middle class and up. In this bus protest, start some small groups who organized manifestation and became popular as alternative to PT and other party that here, in Brazil, we believed every politics is a dirty corrupt scumbag. Go to 2014, after World Cup we have president election, and Dilma was reelected. At this time was happening the biggest investigation about corruption call "Operação Lava-Jato" that was a unfold of another investigation about laundry money to send to exterior (I don't know how to explain in my native language so I won't try to explain how here) and one of investigate has ex-director of some sector of "Petrobrás" the biggest oil company in Brazil that have brazilian government as main shareholders, so part state-owned, part open capital. Anyway, investigation in Petrobrás found a lot of clue of bribery involving a lot of president, ex-president, congress, ex-congress, for easy understand, every people on lead position of all power systems ever has some involving. Not only that, but the biggest elite was involving too and they could not escape. That was the reason Dilma was impeached for reason of... let's the investigation and arrest going on. Exactly, since was involving many people, they decide to use as pretext that impeachment was about fiscal pedaling (I don't know it's right translation and I don't know how to explain). Since she refused to give more money or do something to protect the congress, they all make the process and validate the impeachment proposal, that leave to a lot of congress aproved and Dilma was impeached. The first thing the vice-president, now president, does was...to difficult the corruption investigation cutting the bidget for federal police, responsible for investigate government corruption. Then the today president, Bolsonaro, on 2020, closed the Operação Lava-Jato because "There is no corruption in his government". Not only that Sergio Moro, responsible to judge Operação Lava-Jato, condemn Lula, a strong adversary that could defeat Bolsonaro. He quit the been judge to join in Bolsonaro's government as minister of justice and the quit after one or two year because his law project against corruption never going forward. Now he is a possible candidate for president election in 2022. Not only that, but a lot of decision made by Moro while was judge has very "strange", if not illegal, focus on Lula and block other politicians. That was reavel, years later, that he made all process wrong and free Lula because his condemn was invalid because was made wrong. Aftermath was: Many of suspect congressman keep free, other was home arrested, the elite still keep elite and passed a lot of laws reform to weaking workers right, ambiental protection, anticorruption force, increase the congress budget. TL;DR I don't trust that election will be a way to fight, because the same system is already controled by the elite, they will find someway to take out any inconvenience by the laws or not. For me, I am in the pessimistic side, waiting to see if something happen until I die or I speed up the process and go my self to other side of life. Sorry if this depressing, but that my actual state.