https://x.com/kristof_poland/status/2092901527631417463?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Dear socialist friend, Nothing is stopping you. If collective ownership works so much better, you can prove it by next Tuesday. Pool your savings with your comrades. Elect a planning committee. Run a bakery, a farm, a repair shop – shared ownership, equal pay, decisions by vote. All of it is fully legal, today, everywhere in the West. No revolution needed. And yet. You want the workers to seize the factories – but you won’t open a food truck with three people from your group chat. You demand collective housing – but you won’t sign a joint lease with people who agree with you about everything. People have tried voluntary socialism for two hundred years. The communes keep dissolving – the members simply walk out. The only socialist countries that lasted were the ones that locked the borders. That’s the whole story. Where leaving is allowed, everyone leaves. Socialism only survives where leaving is banned. The people voted – on foot. Just do it. Or admit that "collective" was always just a word for other people’s property."
https://x.com/Handre/status/2044340935018811884
4 comments:
A perfect observation of reality. And everyone from the center on leftward, nonetheless blathers on about something akin to this wild fiction.
Exactly, I'd love to see a bunch of Dans pool their money to by a "means of production" and operate it successfully enough to live. The reason why these folks don't live out their conviction is because they can't. They need government to do it for them, because they are (for the most part) takers not producers.
The Amish do it. Why not them, too? It's because "simple living" is not what truly inspires them.
The reason they don't live their conviction is because they are hypocrites.
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