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No, that’s not quite right.
So right now, people pay rent for shelter, they buy food, they need to pay for childcare and all that kind of stuff.
Imagine that we collectively got people progressively into housing co-operatives, and we got more food co-operatives set up to grow and process food, and we used mutual aid more and more for tasks like childcare.
Progressively, the need for money becomes less and less. Eventually it reaches a point where all it takes is a small push to get people to just stop doing any work that isn’t part of their mutual aid efforts, and capitalism collapses.
that's socialism. never going to happen.
It sure is. Beyond socialism, even. And it’ll happen, no doubt about it, it’s unstoppable. The only question is how much suffering will have to happen before we get there.
Capitalism will collapse, it’s guaranteed - there’s not really anywhere else for it to go. We’re already witnessing it.
We can either implement an alternative before it breaks down to manage the demise properly and sensibly, or we can just all hang around and watch it fall apart and crash and burn, causing a ton of suffering in the process.
socialism has been attempted in many counties and it has always failed. it just doesnt work.
What I have proposed, to the best of my knowledge, has never been attempted. This is different from a violent revolution or an authoritarian left-wing state assuming control of a country. This is the removal of the state. It has never been done before.