Comment on I heard we're doing leftist infighting just in time for the election again, oh joy!

• frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Accelerationism won’t get you what you want, it just ensures authoritarians are in power no matter what. Historically, these people don’t care about redistributing squat.

  Focused changed at a local level can actually bear fruit and can be scaled up. Social programs can already create an economic floor, even under our current capitalist system. For instance, Universal Basic Income implemented at a state level or federal level would solve the economic woes people encounter.

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  • onoira@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    What’s functionally stopping you from living on a commune on an empty dot on a map or a deserted island and making your dream of no government a reality with your peers?

    the fact that under private property there is no such thing as an empty dot or a deserted island, capitalism is a totalising system and is practically inescapable but can be eroded, and that our politics as leftists are not just a vehicle for our own individual self-actualisation but about the liberation of all people?

    a bunch of leftists LARPing on an island are not leftists if they can afford to live on an island together and isolate themselves from the rest of the world.

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