Overthrow capitalism

Capitalism kills.

ive made a habit out of living off the waste of the world, in the process of convincing others to do the same. but i know itll take a lot more then just boycotting big corporations to overthrow their system

I will start by making a study of the classical literature. This will let me gain a perspective. Also make a concrete study of the social situation nationally and internationally.

Businesses could use the money earned through sales pay salaries, make better products, invest in research and development, and a million other things—> they wouldn’t need extra earnings whose sole purpose is kicking money upstairs to the “owners.”

Business could better weather a bad economy because it would be enough to break even; there wouldn’t be the relentless demand from above to make even greater profits.

Ay shucks… Who am I to try to explain this? Just read Understanding capitalism, a great book by Samuel Bowles.
http://tinyurl.com/Ucapitalism

Capitalism is over now. I put it down last weekend. You all just haven’t realized it yet. You’re using currency that’s now worthless. Stop using it. It’s done. I ended it.

Smart individual people like yourselves are the last ones left in this capitalist nation. We need to revolt and show humanity the right path.

Please visit my website and register on the forum i really want to know all the revolutionaries and philosophers out there and devise a plan to better humanity.

We won’t overthrow capitalism by recycling the crap we buy every day, nor by controlling our consumption. The capitalist system knows how to benefit from enviroment-conscious consumers, and no great change has ever been achieved by giving away and re-using old stuff (interesting that a common practice of survival in days of war/poverty has now acquired radical status).

Actually it is more radical to spend and stop saving, since saving is a poor person’s self-denial, effectively enriching banks, and reducing the value of labour by showing that it’s possible to get on with less money.

And by the way overthrowing capitalism doesn’t mean you have to live in scarcity like a Chinese peasant. It’s about recognising that any existing scarcity is entirely artificial.

The whole point is that most of us, and especially the poorest, are completely dependent on being employed, or on the state (if it happens to reluctantly provide for those who can’t work), to survive, while there is a ruling class minority that is excessively enriched by our work and dependence and obviously wants us to stay in that condition indefinitely.

Some of us in the “western world” may not feel the problem so directly, since the general standard of living is somewhat higher, and the idea of ‘equality of opportunity’ is sold to us constantly despite the fact that only those with capital (or loaned capital) can be enriched.

We consume on our credit cards and keep the world financial system afloat on bubbles and debts upon debts (ours, the state’s, corporations’) and when the crash/catastrophe comes the poorest of us are crushed. Meanwhile neighbourhoods all over the world are being class-cleansed to make space for the influx of yuppies. The state then focuses on teen petty crime and surveillance to control the intransigent scapegoats and dissenters. Look at what happened in New Orleans. And that’s only the surface. I could go on stating the obvious…

I don’t know how we can get out of this situation, but all revolutions in history merely reproduced this structure and most currently fashionable methods of resistance are just easy ways to make ourselves feel better. International organising is slowy dying with police repression after 9-11. Not to mention political parties trying to prey on each and every emerging opposition.

While cooperatives are commendable, again, they are like canoes in a capitalist hurricane: if they cannot compete in the market, they may sink, and competing means the cooperative members will have to effectively exploit themselves…

Despite all this I still think there’s a way out of this…

lets make some bank yuh

Once you do it, you realise that people want stuff, it just happens that way, wha tyou really want is to stop mega-media money grubbing types.

But it’s not a priority right now, and may not be for awhile. Plus, is it really reachable?

I think I’ll just continue to quietly undermine capitalism little by little.