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And to our gen z'rs just joining us on this wonderful economic system we call capitalism, buckle up!
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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That process only works to a point, otherwise you get the French Revolution.
I’m not convinced we could organize well enough to make that happen.
It all comes together quite quickly once people can’t feed themselves en masse. We’re not there yet but when it happens it happens fast.
This is a very naive way of thinking that comes from a propagandized view of revolutions and ignorance of history on all the efforts that came before which allowed those revolutions to happen at all. It doesn't come together quickly. It is explicitly the result of having a community foundation and culture to build revolutionary effort on which took years of concerted effort to reach that point. Organizing doesn't happen spontaneously nor quickly. Anyone who told you otherwise was lying to you.
The ruling class has systematically been dismantling that very foundation since the Taft Hartley act.
The same risk of starvation that pushes people to revolution also pushes them to obedience to strongmen who promise to fix their problems by removing the "undesirables" who are being blamed for the misfortune. Without the proper working class culture of solidarity and a community foundation, people are more than likely just going to turn on their neighbors than they are to work with them, especially with the culture of hyper-individualism and xenophobia that the US has cultivated.
If we fail to build back that foundation, people are just going to sell each other out for their next slice of bread.