the US allowing poor people to die bc they can't afford healthcare is genocide.
Just because there's no barbed wire fences involved doesn't change the fact that there's a large-scale & sustained campaign of extermination against every generation of poor Americans by their own government.
Engels coined a phrase for this: social murder.
https://spectrejournal.com/covid-19-as-social-murder/
maintaining capitalism for this long is genocidal in itself. You gotta remember everyone is out for their own class, if they aint then they aint thinkin
"Allowing" is a word carrying a lot of weight. It's really hard to go around picking berries, trapping rabbits, catching fish, etc. with a bunch of stuff sold off, put behind fences, and patrolled by wardens. There's a lot of overt pressure to be in population centers wherein you are subjected to foul treatment by cops and Americans.
If it wasn't designed that way you'd have a bunch of communes crop up. If it wasn't designed that way black wall street would have done a bunch of societal good by now instead of being burned to the ground by braying Americans. Austerity isn't simply not having enough money, it's violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_accumulation_of_capital
It's both, given the way it's disproportionately killing Black and Indigenous people.
Yep this is a genocide. We're also regressing from capitalism and back to a form of feudalism through the pandemic. I expect some time in the future to see corporations offering housing for their workers as a way to deal with the homeless crisis coming up.
thisthisthis. I've been trying to explain to people that the transition "gig economy" work is literally just a return to the way work worked under mercantilism, we aren't inventing a new thing we're just rolling back the changes to work-life from the market revolution of the mid-1800's, but without rebuilding the social infrastructure that had been built up to support people's capability to survive it.
100% agree. All that is going to be left in the near future is open class war on the poor. I've been calling this for months. It's nothing new. It's a return to feudalism and the new lords are going to be Sillicon Valley tech overlords, politicians they own in Congress and the usual billionaire class.
We've had 40 years of neoliberal policy destroying unions and worker's rights. It's definitely going back to the mid 1800s, which we're close to that already. That whole era after the Civil War was nothing but naked corruption with capitalists running the government and buying out politicians. Since our worker's rights and everything has been destroyed, we will need to start over from scratch. Something easier said than done.
People keep talking about a revolution in the US and that is not going to happen. We would need a full working class movement and real unity. Something we don't have here in the US at all cause the left is incredibly small and we spend more time infighting over stupid shit like China and DemSocs, to really get our shit together and do something. Things will just continue to escalate until we reach fascism and a potential civil war near the end of this decade.
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I think this is where you run into problems more than the intent to destroy.
But police/prisons and detention centers are 100% genocide by this definition.
Libs whine about prisoners who died in Soviet gulags while clinking champagne glasses as a pandemic burns through US prisons in particular
I made the mistake once of looking at the social media account of the insurance adjustor who keeps denying me access to disability-curing surgery that I need and all her public posts are about how we can't have M4A bc she doesn't want other people being in charge of what medical care she can & can't have and I wanted to rip my fucking head off of my neck in anger
