I’m so scared of men who read Marx or revolutionary theory as like a hobby, but don’t apply it to their lives or engage in any political struggle. Somehow worse than being completely checked out
@TheOmniZaddy@adastroworld@PositivistWitch One can also naturally extend this idea to the government as a for of cooperative that provides monopolized services, and in turn is "owned by consumers". The interesting thing is that often the regulation that gov create lead to the change of non-capitalist coop into them.
@TheOmniZaddy@adastroworld@PositivistWitch Consumer Coop naturally formed to deal with the monopsony/poly power, when transport costs were high (pre-20th century). Agricultural and Grocery store cooperatives were prevalent as with the consumer as owner, the need to extract value ceased
There's literally a children's board game whose whole premise is showing how Free Market Capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.
⚡️ Hamas official, Basem Naim:
We congratulate Spain on their well-deserved victory in the World Cup, and we congratulate Palestine and its supporters on their joy. Even if the victory only served to annoy the Zionists and their followers, that would be enough.
@BarneyFlames Now under the electoral collage system all it takes is a few thousand ballot stuffs in a heavily contested swing districts to steal and election. Or maybe even changing the electors in the first place.
At the risk of being a libertarian killjoy, I don’t think that providing free babysitting during a night out is one of the legitimate functions of the state.