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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The eternal problem of "the general public" is that they're a product of their material conditions. They don't emerge from the soil and engage with the world on first principles.

When you grow up in a community that has been heavily privatized and financialized, socially owned and operated community functions have to be developed from the ground up rather than inherited. Any kind of proposed social change will grow out of the body of the system that came before.

Libertarians grow up in countries where it is easier to believe in the end of the world than the end of capitalism.