Late Stage Capitalism

Who would like to be paid more, have better representation at their job, more safety standards observed, and plenty of vacation time? Well I have the solution right here for you, it's called Worker's Rights. It starts with collectively organizing together to present a unified front to your employer!

Which fascist ideas do you think people like?

Hear me out...

Capitalism plus plus plus plus plus

nodding towards an AES state

"Oh, you mean the country that starved all the babies because one guy said they should? And the country that did the White Genocide so all the smart people had to leave? And the country that is governed by a Caliphate that wants to kill all the Jews?"

"But all of that is exaggeration, hyperbole, and outright falsehood."

"Nice try you stupid fucking brainwashed Tankie. I'm not falling for it. The only way to make real change is to donate $10k to the Cory Booker campaign for President because he said he'd give everyone a 10% off coupon for insulin in 2037."

CapitalismButBetter

I think its hard to argue against cooperatives. They have a good track record, are member owned, and democratically controlled. Its a form of stateless socialism and a great place to start handing the means of production over to the proletariat.

Nah time for people to think for themselves.. But who am I kidding?

Communitism? Societism? Civilizatism? Social securitism? Social safetism?

They’ve just been brainwashed into thinking it just means authoritarianism.

Idk if I'd even call it "brainwashing" per say. A lot of it boils down to mass media exploiting ethnic and economic bigotries. Just stimulating the very human impulse to be afraid of other people - especially people who don't look or speak or act like you. Then asserting that these Other People are trying to Take Over.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

For a lot of these core ideas, the very pitch-line for them is corrupted. Even removing the question of rich people having an edge, you have these core messages that only justify the status quo.

Democracy as a system of surveying the public mood and mapping policies is great. Democracy as a means of putting arbitrary lists of policies to a vote and then blithely executing the majoritarian opinion isn't great. At some level, you have to recognize that "Two wolves and a sheep voting for dinner" isn't going to end well for the minority, even if the proverbial Two Wolves are wearing different team jackets.

Similarly, Freedom v Tyranny is often couched within the (very deliberately mischaracterized) Ben Franklin quote "Those who value safety over liberty deserve neither". But a better analysis might be "Freedom protects but does not bind, Tyranny binds but does not protect". Because you need safety in order to be free. Freedom of choice is predicated on available choices not being harmful. All too often, policies that serve to protect the weakest members of society are pitched as somehow being tyrannical to the strongest, strictly because they prevent one group from bullying another.

Meritocracy is also larded up with an innate fondness for eugenics and other Social Darwinism. There's this idea that a meritocratic society will subtly weed out the undesirables via a system that leaves no single individual culpable for social murder. "Hey, you're homeless because you're physically disabled or mentally ill? That's not my fault, because I have proven myself to have merit and you clearly haven't." Again, even if we were rewarding hard work, we'd just be punishing the weak and promoting the strong in a Might Makes Right bureaucratic system.

So-called Innovation rewards growth at all costs. Exploitative change is championed purely on the basis that the "innovator" generates profit. Even as we do build things, we focus entirely on the upfront costs versus long-term revenues, without respect for the core function of the system or the long term sustainability of the project.

It’s just really hard to make the jump from having people agree with these things to realizing that the system itself is to blame

I think there is a general recognition that our economic system is broken. But time and again, we're limited in the remedies we're allowed to discuss by individuals invested in perpetuating fascist policies.

And when the contradictions of the system mount, we're told that we must overlook them in order to defeat The Evil Outsiders - Russia, China, Mexico, Iran, Somalia... And that any effort to buck existing policies or curb fascist impulses is a tacit alliance with the Villainous Foreigners Who Want To Destroy Our Way of Life.

That's what we call a branding problem. Capitalism is also really really good at branding and it is also really really good at propagandizing in a way that makes other ways of life seem scary so we continue to do capitalism.

to anyone too lazy to watch the video:

he gets asked whether he's a socialist. he says "idk what a socialist is but i support medical care for babies, sheltering homeless people, educating the population ...", he goes on for a minute, then the interviewer changes the topic and askes him "carl do you think that time travel is possible?"

If they lost their shit at a naming convention, they probably weren't in a strong position to execute on a planned micro-economy. Unfortunately, a system is only as good as its members. The appeal of Anarcho-Capitalism is that it is the lowest common denominator of human behavior. Very easy to slide into.

How dare you. Haha.

Next thing they say, "and we want women and men contributing equally to our commune and have equal rights"

• "oh, so feminism?"

Feminism have suffered much of the same negative connotations, it's ridiculous.

I'm a socialist! I believe all the things that socialists believe. But with one tiny caveat...

I just think only people who serve a Nationalist interest should get Socialist benefits. I'm calling my philosophy National Socialism. Thinking about shortening it.