Comment on Resistance Against Large Corporations is Competition

amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• psion1369@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OH NO! It’s someone slapping a label on an idea to make it sound bad. Yeah, maybe we should reinvent the wheel. What good does this do to fix the problem? Call it what you want, but give me an alternate solution at the same time. Something that anybody can do.

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you will never be able to outcompete the 1% because the only way to do that is to exploit workers more than they do. liberal propaganda may talk a lot about how growth without harm is possible, but it’s all just that, propaganda.

    what I and a lot of anti-authoritarians propose is starting co-ops whose aim is to fight against competition, and to abolish the profit motive as much as possible. also organizing into neighborhood councils that function based on consensus democracy to autonomously govern the neighborhood against the wishes of oppressors like the state, the cops, landlords and the owning class.

    the only way to escape late-stage capitalism is to go against this cancer cell ideology called infinite growth by adopting this thing called degrowth.

    the Argentinian example is extremely inspiring for workplace self-management:

    if you prefer podcasts, here’s an episode on Fabricas Ocupadas (occupied factories).

    theanarchistlibrary.org/…/anarcho-argentina-one-y…

    theanarchistlibrary.org/…/jose-antonio-gutierrez-…

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Go protest to get your government to make corporations follow laws and pay taxes. Vote for the politicians that work towards that.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Vote for the politicians that work towards that.

      Kind of like asking him to vote for a norwal. Sure, they exist, but they don’t even attempt to make any REAL progress towards closing the wealth gap.

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was kinda assuming not everyone lives in the US and in some countries it might actually be viable

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    • psion1369@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And how’s that been going for you? When people shout enough, the ones that need to listen start to tune it out. But start hitting wallets? Can’t tune that out.

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What you propose isn’t hitting wallets, it’s refilling them

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