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CMV: The first thing leftists should strive to do is get a good enough income (can include via setting up mutual aid) (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/238912

If you've ever looked at how rightwing movements operate, it appears they throw a lot of money around. And because of the world we live in, it gets results, ex the canadian trucker protest having basically all the same amenities as a festival, nearly a theme park. Advertising budget. Funding institutions/youtube channels to spread bs.

I think the first thing a leftist should do is, in order:

  1. get a good enough income for themself. This can include mutual aid or even things like food banks, depending on your philosophy.

1b) study some finance, ex the finance diet and use tricks from financial sources to boost income. This includes stock market/saving for retirement. I can elaborate later if u want on why savings are important. Including trying to use tax loop holes for our advantage. The rightwingers get an edge from this, we need to even the playing field

  1. take care of other important things like enough exercise, good diet, dating

  2. actual left things. But starting with making sure other lefties are well off financially. I'm not sure how to do this and not create capitalists. But technically if you have 0.0001% of stocks, you (the worker) owns 0.0001% of the means of production of that company. A good approach might be starting a worker co-op, where you give people a good wage and recruit youngins right out of high school. That way they learn what a just economic system is and when they branch of to other companies, they will hopefully expect just treatment and be more ready to push for a union in their new workplace.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Experience shows that if you make yourself financially dependent on the status quo economic situation (which is pretty much what you describe) you will always find excuses to stick to the status quo or at least it will be easily possible to blackmail you into supporting the status quo.

Anarchists are rather trying to opt out of the current economic system and build alternative support networks that allow them to uncompromisingly fight for a systematic change.