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  • We cannot accept capitalism’s conception of economic relations as “free and private,” because contracts are not made among economic equals and because they give rise to social structures which undemocratically confer power upon some over others. Such relationships are undemocratic in that the citizens involved have not freely deliberated upon the structure of those institutions and how social roles should be distributed within them (e.g., the relationship between capital and labor in the workplace or men and women in child rearing). We do not imagine that all institutional relations would wither away under socialism, but we do believe that the basic contours of society must be democratically constructed by the free deliberation of its members.








  • For now. Give it a few decades when the effects of climate change start forcing people out of their homes, cause widespread crop failure, kill thousands with heatwaves and storms, etc.

    If you’re choice is between

    1. losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets

    Or

    1. losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets after holding those responsible to account a la the adjuster

    More and more people will choose option 2.



  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerican Activism
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    5 months ago

    Nonsense.

    It was a wake up call for execs to quit their bullshit. It was a wake up call for the working class to band together.

    And there is still a very slim chance he gets acquitted/a not guilty verdict.

    The conditions that caused this event haven’t gone away. And all of the school shooter types have just been taught that you will be widely regarded as a folk hero for shooting an exec, so they may opt to change their targets for the better. We will probably see more exec shooters.




  • The execs take perverse delight in the ways they rob the workers of their wealth, make them suffer, and leave them to die. They are cruel and oppressive. They aren’t simply lap dogs, and not all of then are beholden to hire ups. Many of them like Bezos and Musk are the ones in charge.

    If you work at a company, did you elect the execs of that company? Do you have any way within the system of the company to hold said execs in check when they abuse their power? Did you vote for the pay scale of the company? Did you vote on benefits packages?

    The answer to all these is almost certainly no. The execs are the business equivalent of dictators. They are tyrants, even if “benevolent” or controlled by a higher up tyrant.

    And we see the same thing happen on a country level on the world stage. Big powers will topple or influence small countries and install a dictator that is beholden to the big power. That doesn’t make the dictator any less of a dictator just because they themselves are owned.