I know this is going to sound petulant but I really don't mean it to and I am directing this at myself as much as I am at everybody else. And there are two parts to this. First a question:
What are YOU Doing to resist? What are you doing to organize a resistance? Why is the question always "why isn't anyone doing anything about this". Let…
I know this is going to sound petulant but I really don't mean it to and I am directing this at myself as much as I am at everybody else. And there are two parts to this. First a question:
What are YOU Doing to resist? What are you doing to organize a resistance? Why is the question always "why isn't anyone doing anything about this". Let me be clear, this includes me big time too. But the thing is people need something to organize around, and while that point of coalescence should have been the democratic party in total, so far it only seems to be a handful of people. Nothing is stopping any of us from getting that ball rolling.
The second part is simply that it takes a particular kind of person to begin those coalescences..It's so frustrating not knowing what to do. But the truth is we don't know what to do. We have to define what the resistance would look like, what it would actually entail, and then how to go about doing it.
In my opinion protests are more performative than active. They are important because they express public distress, so they are certainly a signal of what is going on and important in that way, but they don't do any of the actual work of resistance.
Violence against these undemocratic forces is certainly an option. And while I have absolutely no moral objection to the use of it, I do have a strategic objection. All I can do at this point is turn up the volume and empower the antagonist.
The best option remains workers strikes. But it would have to be a massive strike across industries that all happened at the same time. An individual saying "take this job and shove it "and walking out can't do shit. Except cause financial distress for that one person
So the question is how do you get people to collectively work together to resist at the same time? An Individual act of resistance is just a suicide mission of sorts. Why would anyone destroy their own lives if no one else has their back. people need to have some sense that they can win a fight in order for them to take the kinds of risks that are being asked.
Even as a pessimist, I can say with a fair amount of certainty that something will arise. Simply because something always does. If the abuses of capitalism can be attributed to human nature, so can the active self preservation. We just need to get a sense of enough people being on the same page Before that will happen
I know this is going to sound petulant but I really don't mean it to and I am directing this at myself as much as I am at everybody else. And there are two parts to this. First a question:
What are YOU Doing to resist? What are you doing to organize a resistance? Why is the question always "why isn't anyone doing anything about this". Let me be clear, this includes me big time too. But the thing is people need something to organize around, and while that point of coalescence should have been the democratic party in total, so far it only seems to be a handful of people. Nothing is stopping any of us from getting that ball rolling.
The second part is simply that it takes a particular kind of person to begin those coalescences..It's so frustrating not knowing what to do. But the truth is we don't know what to do. We have to define what the resistance would look like, what it would actually entail, and then how to go about doing it.
In my opinion protests are more performative than active. They are important because they express public distress, so they are certainly a signal of what is going on and important in that way, but they don't do any of the actual work of resistance.
Violence against these undemocratic forces is certainly an option. And while I have absolutely no moral objection to the use of it, I do have a strategic objection. All I can do at this point is turn up the volume and empower the antagonist.
The best option remains workers strikes. But it would have to be a massive strike across industries that all happened at the same time. An individual saying "take this job and shove it "and walking out can't do shit. Except cause financial distress for that one person
So the question is how do you get people to collectively work together to resist at the same time? An Individual act of resistance is just a suicide mission of sorts. Why would anyone destroy their own lives if no one else has their back. people need to have some sense that they can win a fight in order for them to take the kinds of risks that are being asked.
Even as a pessimist, I can say with a fair amount of certainty that something will arise. Simply because something always does. If the abuses of capitalism can be attributed to human nature, so can the active self preservation. We just need to get a sense of enough people being on the same page Before that will happen