The ACA is the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation. It is not progressive legislation.

Every time the Dems have had a majority in my lifetime, they have failed to even discuss progressive legislation, let alone try to enact it.

The DNC has had multiple opportunities to tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs during my lifetime and they have not done so once. I don’t believe them anymore when they say it’s their platform.

Being anti-Republican isn’t enough anymore. This shit will keep happening for as long as we allow private ownership of the means of production.

Imported canned tomatoes were cheaper than domestic versions at my grocery store last week. Soon, it may even be possible to boycott America from inside! 🤣

They’re just worried that people are talking about boycotting the US World Cup.

LOL If companies were honest we’d have a socialist revolution within 48 hours.

I would sign it.

As if a Dem would actually use that authority to enact progressive legislation…

Few elected officials seem to care, but plenty of ordinary people are waking up to the fact that political power is not something you can give away in a vote, it’s something you have to take.

Cold brew is good for people who need lower acidity.

Or, from a less Euro-centric POV, it’s always been about immigration settler-colonialism.

So it sounds like what you’re describing is acts of resistance while living under the capitalist world order. What I’m talking about is what happens after a successful revolution and you are trying to maintain control in the face of capitalist wealth and power.

Obviously, yes, organize and form resistance coalitions and use direct action to stop the fascists. Revolution is not possible without all of that. But IMO neither is revolution possible solely through those things. By design, a decentralized network of coalitions is not as effective at wielding power as a centralized state, which is a serious handicap in a war.

Honestly though, I would have no qualms with adopting an anarchist strategy if it seriously seemed like the best approach given material conditions at the time. At all times, Power to the People.

That still doesn’t answer how groups of friends prevail against a centralized army with the industrial capacity of the world behind them.

How do you defend yourself when a strong capitalist state sends its centralized military against your peaceful decentralized commune?

I agree 100% with your vision of how society could/should be organized, I just don’t see it as a practical first step in a world dominated by capital.

It’s not inevitable, after all we want the same end result - a classless, stateless, moneyless society.

If it has truly gotten to the point where every last billionaire is gone, then I would argue that is pretty good evidence for the end of the hegemony of capital. I’m not sure that the material conditions of a world like that would require a dictatorship of the proletariat, and much more alignment with anarchists could be reached.

Of course, if we are talking about a more realistic scenario like a revolution in a single nation, then absolutely a central state is required to protect the revolution from reactionaries.

This is also what the DNC wants. Vote socialist.

Would it not be more destabilizing to allow this leak to go through? Seems like by stopping this, they are propping up the government?

California would be better off without the billionaires.

The ethnic Russians whose oppression Putin used in his justification for invading Ukraine were not Russian citizens, they were Ukrainian citizens whose families had lived in those areas for generations. They weren’t settlers sent to provoke a response, they were legitimate residents of those areas.

This has deliberately been done to us. The atomization of our society serves no one but the capitalists (who are the masters of ICE).