I think people shouldn’t be allowed to suffer when preventing that suffering is easy, and that makes me a radical utopian idealist apparently
Sometimes, I am not sure if I am a leftist, or if I am a person with empathy, and an unwillingness to see people suffer… who happens to live in a capitalist system.
I imagine that’s how most people end up on the left. Once you start seeing the brutality of the system, it quickly becomes repulsive.
You know what “radicalized” me? Existing in a poorly regulated capitalist system.
That about sums it up, yeah. My beliefs aren’t radical, but my thoughts on the means that should be taken to realize them are becoming more radical.
Y’know what radicalized me? Watching cops skate the prosecution damned near every time they lynched a Black man, woman, or child. That’s how I learned Jim Crow is still alive and well. That’s how I learned this is no democracy, it’s a fascist oligarchy that sacrifices its subjects-of-empire to the false gods of the Market.
This is why half the time, my posts end off with ‘death to Amerika’-- because there is no way to reform a slavemaster.
What we want isn’t radical, it’s common sense human rights. It’s just that the denial of those common sense human rights in the permitted stages of political theater leads to us pursuing radical solutions.
If you didn’t want to end up a pretty bit of paintwork on the wall you should’ve allowed us a democratic workplace alongside a democratic government and chose to join us on the working line instead of insisting on keeping our wealth through illegitimate power.
or as Parenti put it in Blackshirts and Reds
I figured that one out when I was, like, 8 years old.
That’s not the best argument to use. There are a lot of plans that 8 year olds make, and most of them suck.
Calling it a plan is a wild overstatement. It’s an observation, and it’s a pretty simple one conceptually.
If it’s so simple, why can’t the US get it right? Isn’t it the greatest country in the world?
The greatest country in the nation 😎
