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~yassin

@kentborg @emilymbender I mean these two things are not really separate. Capitalism will happily endorse any fascist state as long as it keeps enabling their profit privatisation. In a capitalist imperial world order the hegemonic power has the function to ensure the conditions to generate surplus value by the exploitation of labour and nature for private profit. If the exploitation within specific state borders can only be realised through the installation of a fascist government, so be it.

The abolition of capitalism is a necessary condition for the abolition of fascism.

30 May 2023 at 20:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tilde.zone
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Kent Borg

@yassin @emilymbender The problem at hand isn't how to abolish fascism, it is how to preserve our democracy past the next couple years, preserve it long enough to do anything of importance.

30 May 2023 at 20:42 | Open on social.tchncs.de
~yassin

@kentborg @emilymbender I totally get what you're saying. However, I am afraid that the capitalist class has vested interests to keep public choices within their accepted boundaries. The further liberal democracy tries to overstep these boundaries, especially regarding climate policies, the more ferocious the attacks on civil liberties will be in order to manufacture discontent and bigotry.

30 May 2023 at 20:59 | Open on tilde.zone
Kent Borg

@yassin @emilymbender This next federal election could be our last, and we might not even get that far. We have to win.

Making this about capitalism means we will lose. People think they like capitalism.

30 May 2023 at 21:28 | Open on social.tchncs.de
MSavoritias

@kentborg @yassin @emilymbender

You realize that this was the same thing that was said to the civil rights movement and people of color? "Its not the right time yet."

And i bet it was said to people who wanted to abolish slavery or child labor or women having rights. "Its not the right time yet"
And lets not forget that the trans people are going through an existensial threat now, today.

Thats the excuse that was always given. Its not the right time, we have bigger problems, we need the bigots on our side. Or the always here existensial threat. I mean we have been stuck in most countries between bad and worse for the past 40 years.

Lets be honest the system is designed for you not to have the right time. Its designed to keep people always in a fight or flight mode. Thats why the break encryption or the eroding workers rights legislation is proposed again and again and again.

The politicians class knows that if people didnt give the excuse of the right time, if they werent in always existensial threat, they would start to think not only about just a raise, but taking the whole company.

So its time to stop patching a broken beyond repair thing. I am tired and i bet a lot of other people are too. Rallying with the"existensial" vote or the is not the right time doesnt help.

@kentborg @yassin @emilymbender

You realize that this was the same thing that was said to the civil rights movement and people of color? "Its not the right time yet."

And i bet it was said to people who wanted to abolish slavery or child labor or women having rights. "Its not the right time yet"
And lets not forget that the trans people are going through an existensial threat now, today.

31 May 2023 at 7:31 | Open on tilde.zone
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