That’s all good stuff, I don’t see our standpoints as mutually exclusive at all. What are some policy goals you support to bring the government more in line with your views? Or is that not something you believe in?
decommodify housing, end arrests for homelessness and public camping, universal healthcare independent of employment, universal childcare, free higher education, universal free pubic transit, dismantle the military-prison-border complex and use all of that money towards social infrastructure, abolish the supreme court, abolish the senate, destroy every nuclear weapon
Agreed on all points. For the abolishing supreme court and senate part, I agree in theory, but I’d require a detailed plan for what comes after legally, so as not to just invite a new breed of corruption to take the place of the old.
We aren’t enemies, or even very ideologically opposed at all, and we need as many standing in solidarity as possible to have even a chance of toppling the capitalist behemoth in any meaningfull way.
Wishing you the best in your efforts to help your community.
I agree in theory, but I’d require a detailed plan for what comes after legally, so as not to just invite a new breed of corruption to take the place of the old.
the senate just shouldn’t exist; it exists to give slave states a veto over any democratic majority. unicameral proportional legislature would be orders of magnitude more democratic than what we have now.
courts and judges are mechanisms of state power that enforce property relations and class hierarchy. as a first step i’d like to see restorative/transformative justice approaches instead of punitive and community accountable practices instead of state violence.
as for the supreme court i don’t think it needs to exist with a bunch of life-term assholes in robes appointed by politicians making the calls. randomly select large panels of citizens for each case, like it’s a jury but for constitutional questions.
I’d support all of that, while keeping a keen eye out for corporate interests trying to co-opt and corrupt any new rule set to maintain their stranglehold on power.
good to hear. the point of decommodifying housing and abolishing/nationalizing the various monopolies dominating our lives is so that those corporate interests do not exist and cannot exert power on the political economy.
i fear that trying to control these capital formations without crushing them first is going to be a losing battle no matter what changes you try to make. that’s my main criticism of the liberal track, i don’t think there’s any real way these things can be controlled.
I hear you. I just don’t know how that happens without violent revolution , which I’d never rule out entirely, but my reading of history leaves me very skeptical that would end up where I want it to.
my reading of history leaves me very skeptical that would end up where I want it to.
it rarely does, and i certainly don’t pretend that i have any special knowledge about how to shape that. however, what we have now is not sustainable, it’s been effectively uniparty capitalist rule. yeah the colors and culture wars change, the line goes up, but the political economy has fundamentally been in stasis. a political stasis is not a stable situation, it’s a powder keg waiting to go.
the reason i prefer to work on dual power is because when it does go up the only path forward from there that i see is to have an existing network of people i already know who want to work on shared goals (opposing and undermining capitalism). that network of people i have so far is a lot of marxists and anarchists because they’re the ones actually seeing the problem and willing to put in the effort now.
That’s all good stuff, I don’t see our standpoints as mutually exclusive at all. What are some policy goals you support to bring the government more in line with your views? Or is that not something you believe in?
as a start?
decommodify housing, end arrests for homelessness and public camping, universal healthcare independent of employment, universal childcare, free higher education, universal free pubic transit, dismantle the military-prison-border complex and use all of that money towards social infrastructure, abolish the supreme court, abolish the senate, destroy every nuclear weapon
Agreed on all points. For the abolishing supreme court and senate part, I agree in theory, but I’d require a detailed plan for what comes after legally, so as not to just invite a new breed of corruption to take the place of the old.
We aren’t enemies, or even very ideologically opposed at all, and we need as many standing in solidarity as possible to have even a chance of toppling the capitalist behemoth in any meaningfull way.
Wishing you the best in your efforts to help your community.
the senate just shouldn’t exist; it exists to give slave states a veto over any democratic majority. unicameral proportional legislature would be orders of magnitude more democratic than what we have now.
courts and judges are mechanisms of state power that enforce property relations and class hierarchy. as a first step i’d like to see restorative/transformative justice approaches instead of punitive and community accountable practices instead of state violence.
as for the supreme court i don’t think it needs to exist with a bunch of life-term assholes in robes appointed by politicians making the calls. randomly select large panels of citizens for each case, like it’s a jury but for constitutional questions.
I’d support all of that, while keeping a keen eye out for corporate interests trying to co-opt and corrupt any new rule set to maintain their stranglehold on power.
good to hear. the point of decommodifying housing and abolishing/nationalizing the various monopolies dominating our lives is so that those corporate interests do not exist and cannot exert power on the political economy.
i fear that trying to control these capital formations without crushing them first is going to be a losing battle no matter what changes you try to make. that’s my main criticism of the liberal track, i don’t think there’s any real way these things can be controlled.
I hear you. I just don’t know how that happens without violent revolution , which I’d never rule out entirely, but my reading of history leaves me very skeptical that would end up where I want it to.
it rarely does, and i certainly don’t pretend that i have any special knowledge about how to shape that. however, what we have now is not sustainable, it’s been effectively uniparty capitalist rule. yeah the colors and culture wars change, the line goes up, but the political economy has fundamentally been in stasis. a political stasis is not a stable situation, it’s a powder keg waiting to go.
the reason i prefer to work on dual power is because when it does go up the only path forward from there that i see is to have an existing network of people i already know who want to work on shared goals (opposing and undermining capitalism). that network of people i have so far is a lot of marxists and anarchists because they’re the ones actually seeing the problem and willing to put in the effort now.
Keep fighting the good fight. Thanks for the discussion, I’m off to catch a rainbow trout for dinner.