Describes a world compatible with anarchism: this is tankie world to me

https://mobile.twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/1424621399767875589

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    ... for nothing in return.

    Well there's your problem. The idea that the only thing of value to a person, that could convince them to do something, is money.

    This idea is pretty fucking disgusting.

    "Wanna have sex? Only for money!"

    "Wanna cuddle? Am I getting paid?"

    "Go to a funeral? Well, am I getting anything from their will?"

    • want_tobegood [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      You know, actually I don't think the internet is necessarily what ruined people's sense of interpersonal interaction

      I'm terminally online and even I can understand why pic is a stupid argument

      I think some people are just dead inside from the getgo

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        survival under capitalism pushes you to think of everything in terms of financial benefit

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        "On the basis of political economy itself, in its own words, we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities; that the wretchedness of the worker is in inverse proportion to the power and magnitude of his production"

        People internalize this form of self worth and they cannot think outside the confines of capitalism.

      • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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        3 years ago

        Materialism, baby. Our thoughts on "human nature" are inevitably tied to the society you live in. Pre-capitalist peasants thought that the sun takes revenge on those who curse it, trees and rivers were conscious, and that plants and animals have secret knowledge. They were much more in tune with the natural world and the rhythm of the seasons by necessity. Capitalist ghouls can't imagine people doing something without it being an economic exchange of value.