“Communism doesn’t work”

– That’s why for 99% of its history humans lived communally (yeah you have dental but also wage slavery)

“Communism doesn’t work”
– Actually we all owe our childhoods to authoritarian communism (communalism), deployed via family

“Communism doesn’t work, there were millions of deaths”
– Let’s not forget about the Atlantic slave trade, colonization, genocide in East Timor, Rwanda, Bosnia, Burma, etc., etc. Capitalism hasn’t stopped genocide.

“Communism doesn’t work” Which is why we have to bail out capitalism socially again and again. In this respect, the USA is the world’s largest ‘socialist’ economy, but it’s socializing the wrong things: Wall Street, the largest (quite communal) military on earth.

“Communism doesn’t work”
Yeah well if you don’t like living in a communal way, stop breathing Who owns the air? Biggest natural medium on earth and countries just make a pretense of regulation. If you cut off someone’s air, it’s a crime. Our lives are predicated on communism

“Socialism doesn’t work”
Actually the USA is the most socialist society in the world, but the money’s continually going from main street to bail out Wall Street.

“I don’t get Anarchism”
– Teaching about Anarchism is like instructing people to follow Daoism. Better that you take a look at it and see what fits for yourself.

“Anarchism makes no sense”
You’re already DOING anarchist stuff, you may be a better anarchist than me.
– actually pretty much everything you do voluntarily is what they are into; mutualism, voluntarism. Your voluntary work at the library / with kids, your religion, the stuff you like? That’s anarchism – voluntary organisation.

“I like Capitalism”
– Usually what you mean to say is ‘I like commerce and prosperity.” To activists you’re saying ‘I like having a boss’.

“Capitalism is the only system that works, it’s been proven by the fall of communism”
Where did you buy your Iphone from again? Also, who won the Vietnam War?

“Capitalism isn’t perfect but it’s the only system that works.”
Our civilization is based on food surplus. Explain to me again why 3% of the population farms but we all have to work. All governments are (currently) variations of state capitalism.

“I’m a libertarian”
– That’s great, do look up the ORIGINAL meaning of the word sometime. I’ll wait.

Anarchism: you may already be doing anarchist stuff!
https://rva.party/@io/101369457383408985

Marx is (of course) the original social justice warrior, he was a foreign correspondent for a GOP newspaper.

Do you like quoting Orwell, Martin Luther King?
They’re both socialists.

Socialism isn’t just a system of government. Do you elect the leader of your workplace?

So capitalism is private property, yeah?
I own YOU.
Why not?
Or: I own the air, the water. Hmmm.. but the land is OK, somehow?
If it’s bad to own a person, and bad to own air, water – trend is towards owning less.

Socialism for the super rich, capitalism for the poor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2018-taxes-some-of-americas-biggest-companies-paid-little-to-no-federal-income-tax-last-year/

Privatized gains, socialized losses.

Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

“Capitalism is great” – we don’t seek to work. We celebrate when we finish the week, when we retire. We seek to get out of (non-voluntary) hierarchical situations as fast as possible.

Keynes?

“I like capitalism”
“Sure, can I own you”
No
Why not? Where are the restrictions? Who is the ultimate arbiter? There is no clear ideology.
Has a communal basis of resources.
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It’s all communism
Just a thin veneer of ownership on the top.
Life ends. Laws don’t extend very far.
Anarchism means more rules.
Call it equalitarianism
Equalitarian manifesto
Notes for the Equalitarian manifesto. I’m not fit to write it.
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You’re using air to speak to me

And you’re speaking English right now
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Humans are hugely communal creatures: families, religion, meals, sports.

Mutual aid:

https://time.com/5516037/gofundme-medical-bills-one-third-ceo/

Church: what do you seek? Communion.

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