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In the end, the problem stems from billionaires. They created the right wing propaganda machine that caused this far right authoritarian rise. They did it recklessly only to increase their own power. Billionaires can no longer exist. Capitalism is failing. We need a new path forward.
Humanist Capitalism has to come out of the ashes
Unions, cooperatives, and unionized cooperatives no matter what
Nah, Capitalism had its moment. It’s time for socialism now.
It's not black and white. You can have parts of the industry capitalist and part of it socialist. I am all for housing reform, I wouldn't mind paying more taxes if it meant that we are all gonna live a happier life. I probably wouldn't want state owned means of production as we all know you can't trust em that much.
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/crash_course_socialism.md
This might help.
I don’t think you know what socialism or capitalism are.
Capitalist and commerce are not synonyms.
Yes, I'm sure that when the Oil Manufacturers Cooperative murders climate activists and spreads propaganda to prevent the adoption of sustainable alternatives, humanity will be much better off...
Capitalism in any form is unsustainable, any system that treats the world as fungible is. What we need is fundamental, structural change.
We need a system that naturally incentivizes degrowth and makes the filling of power vacuums by corrupt, greedy, or opportunistic people or systems impossible.
That's not capitalism, it's not syndicalism, it's not state communism. It's something in the realm of anarchocommunism. Societies that are prosperous because nobody in them is trying to screw people over: ones without capital accumulation or exertion of power, that are nevertheless resistant to power over them.
That makes a lot of sense, have anything similar enough to that I can read up on?
Just read Marx and Lenin. They talk about all of this in depth.
Oh boy, hyper capitalism, to go from we pay you to give us your soul- to you have to give us your soul and body or we flay your family is a natural step. This is hyper capitalism. Long ago you chose that corporations are human . It is not capitalism to not give humans food or rights. It is hyper capitalism. It is too much to give money to megacorp demonic entities that consume the earth to end our lives as a species, it is too much . It is not capitalism. Not the cute little communist opponent no it is HYPER capitalism, another beast an insane and psychotic beast
“Hyper” capitalism is just capitalism at its root without strong government controls. Capitalism leaves larger and larger groups out - that’s how it works. Capitalism is designed to have winners and losers and without socialism to pick up those left out, they are ground under the system to death. The capitalism we’ve all known has always been heavily regulated (even if it’s becoming less regulated). Past capitalism always relied on exploiting the lower classes, immigrants, or slavery. Capitalism working as a self contained system has always been a pipe dream.
Hyper capitalism is an extreme version of capitalism employed by the USA which defies reason concerning subjects such as worker unions and consumer rights etc. Something that several socialist first world countries have while still being capitalist.
My point is that it’s not “hyper” capitalism - it’s just normal capitalism. Capitalism is a bad system that must be tempered by a lot of socialism and government controls to work for society. Hyper capitalism sort of implies it’s an extremist version of that system, but it’s not. In the past, humanity started out using more standard capitalism (what you are calling hyper capitalism) and workers rose up to create unions and pushed governments to create socialist systems to temper the inherent abuses the capitalism. Many people argue pure capitalism will regulate itself through the markets and we don’t need unions and government controls at all. So I think calling what the USA has as “hyper capitalism” implies its somehow an anomaly of that system. I think that misrepresents the inherent societally deductive nature of the capitalist system. Also, I would argue what the USA has leans more towards crony capitalism.