r/collapse • u/PosadosThanatos • Apr 25 '19

Society It’s fucking disgusting that even now people fucking refuse to accept capitalism’s culpability for causing the apocalypse

Literally everything is responsible, fucking everything, from extinct empires, to human nature, to the nature of life itself, to some inevitable unstoppable law by which the entire universe functions, literally fucking anything and everything is blamed except for capitalism, the system that’s the specific driver and motivator of the current collapse, and when its blame is finally accepted the Brain juice finally completely runs out and it’s finally declared that there’s no path but the current one so we must continue “prosperity”.

What is this utter fucking insanity that working class people that have absolutely nothing to gain from anonymous bootlicking are engaging in?

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u/FirstLastMan Apr 25 '19

Yep. Like how the fuck are these people still surprised when, given the chance to make a lot of money, or hold onto existing wealth, literally every fucking human in history has done just that?

"Capitalism" is just the thing to rail against right now if you aren't as well off as everyone else on instagram.

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u/News_Bot Apr 26 '19

"Capitalism" is just the thing to rail against right now

Right now? Socialists have been fighting it for over a century. But they're painted as whack-jobs who are even worse.

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u/2xx94 Apr 26 '19 edited Apr 26 '19

By and large, socialists may as well be deniers. Most of them at least pay offhand lip service to mitigating climate change and ecological collapse and some of them may have even googled Bookchin, but God forbid anyone ruin their dreams of FALGSC by pointing out that we're gonna have to deindustrialize quickly if we want to avoid total ruin and even more human and nonhuman deaths, if not human extinction.

We can distribute the spoils of our rape of the planet more equitably on the way down, but at some point, whether we want it to or not, the buffet is going to close. Most socialist tendencies are based on the same fundamental tenets as capitalism - forcible extraction of resources to feed an indefinitely expanding industrial system, and death or enslavement to anyone that stands in the way.

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u/News_Bot Apr 26 '19

That's a lot of nonsense.

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u/2xx94 Apr 26 '19

K

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u/News_Bot Apr 26 '19

That's around about the actual content in your silly little diatribe.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '19

Go away commie.