Only when the working class and the nearly forgotten chronically unemployed and unemployable underclass take responsibility for defending their own interests as vigorously as the elite do theirs will any real change come. The sooner we stop believing that the government can solve our problems, the better.
Sooner or later someone is going to demand of me: "Well, what's your solution? Do you have any better idea?" Of course my answer will be an unqualified "no." "Solutions," are the larvae of problems, and with its "solutions," the state creates the future problems with which to justify its existence.
Some short term tactics might involve people banding together at the neighborhood level, making sure there is enough food to go around, and making it difficult and expensive to evict the families of the unemployed. Rent strikes, mortgage moratoriums, work stoppages and general strikes all have potential advantages and drawbacks, and what works in one locality might not in another. These things have to be decided by those directly involved, not by some central committee or party HQ.
Whatever happens, it will have to involve people actually talking with their neighbors, and setting aside religious and cultural differences, as well as arbitrary "left" and "right" political labels. People will have to get out of their comfort zones and work together. (Which is a major headache, quite often just a boring pain in the *ss; sometimes having live music can make these things less tiresome, either that or we'll just have to wait until people lose their cable hookup and run out of beer and weed.)
The doctrine of individualism is a remarkable tool for the paradoxical insurance of obedience and conformity; only through these behaviors can the individual hope to "succeed." Success is defined as pleasing one's masters, and thus increasing the amount of mostly useless crap one can purchase and display to advertise one's "successful" life. Ultimately, the acquisition of property and capital, purchased with one's own finite supplies of energy and ultimately time, the only thing one truly owns, is depicted as the commonality uniting the governed.
As the field of options narrows, the professions of applied force will be made to appear increasingly attractive to those who fear uncertainty . And when one can be certain that no person or institution will lift a finger to help, when one's place as a pawn on the big chessboard is taken, why not take the truncheon or gun handed to you, and do your best to ensure continued obedience?
Most importantly, the reality that capital and real property
in themselves are weapons requires the application of physical force; failure
to obey, even the act of quitting one's job and accepting the consequence of homelessness
puts one at serious risk of a severe beating followed by confinement, and
increasingly a course of instruction on the joys of "responsible living"
through low-wage labor. This is necessary to ensure that ownership of property includes the lives of all who venture into that property to sell the only things they have left, their time and physical energy.
This is fascism, as defined by Mussolini, pure and simple, and the arcane "left vs. right" paradigm allows for a divided populace to be conquered and ruled. Time is running out, and the banners of overt militarism, racism, religious bigotry, and pure hatred and fear are flying on the horizon. If we don't get serious about our rights, we won't even be allowed to have these stupid online debates anymore.
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