Tag: leftism

What amazes me is capitalism’s ability to show us the greatest abundance imaginable and insist on a the absolute scarcity of all the means of life

It is evidenced by out wastage of good and edible food, the fact of commodious and beautiful houses left empty to rot. 

 What obscene parsimony to ignore developments that could improve the lives of all in favor of focus groups to attempt sell more pointless widgets to those of us who for lack of money are denied such necessities as medicine and safe homes? 

 How is a system that puts to work its brightest mathematicians and inventors not to assist the many but enrich the few not dismissed as ridiculous the moment it is proposed? 

 They call us utopian dreamers as an insult but is it not indicative of an incredible lack of imagination to call this the best we can do? Is it not absolutely absurd to suggest that the might of human ingenuity could not devise something better than this lumbering mass of inefficiency and waste?

Okay So I’m Seeing Some Good Critiques Of Consensus And Democracy

Makes it easy for a big group to oppress a smaller one, which while probably kinda better than a small group oppressing a bigger one, cause less people are oppressed is still inherently shitty, cause like democracy can be used to oppress POC in a white majority country and stuff, but then we have this history of that idea being used to use the theoretical people to oppress the literal people

So like?  What do?

Google is only turning up monarchists

I’m not saying there is no good alternative, I just have no frickin’ idea.

Like I mean constitutions n’ shit are supposed to stop that but we know that hasn’t worked so well… so?

But on the other hand some ideas about how to avoid the problems of these things haven’t worked well, so?

In all seriousness though, I wouldn’t have ended up as radicalized as I am if it weren’t for communist tumblr memes making me reexamine ideas I had preconceived notions about thanks to a bunch of dour shitty lefties I met when I was younger.