Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Absolutely no right-wing jokes. This includes "Anarcho"-Capitalist concepts.
Absolutely no redfash jokes. This includes anything that props up the capitalist ruling classes pretending to be communists.
No bigotry whatsoever. See instance rules.
This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
Join the matrix room for some real-time discussion.
Fun little fact; in the realm of Economics , non-fiscal measures of value used to be well considered by policy makers and executives.
So for example man-hours, throughput, turnaround, even reinvestment and costs would be considered for project choice as demonstrations of patriotism, workforce commitment, and firm health in everything from recruitment to advertising.
But of course dedication to shareholder value and executive compensation are the best policies.
Right?
Boss makes a million, I make a buck. That's why I jerk it in the company truck
You've basically described social media, where you can find a Disney ad next to a picture of a bunch of folksy white people doing the seig heil. Engagement = money which is more important than social good.
I mean the hope is that social good drives capital. It doesn't, but still.
Well, yeah? Capitalism is an economic system, i.e., it's concerned with making money. The social good should come from the government taxing that money. Problem being, the rich have now bought the government and our social/communication systems.
it's concerned with making money
Nope, the question an economic system attempts to answer is "who should control the wealth created by the working class's surplus labor;" it's concerned not with making money, but with allocating it where it should be allocated. Capitalism's answer to that question is "rich private citizens," so it ends up concerned primarily with making money, but that's an emergent property of capitalism rather than the fundamental nature of an economic system.
How is it going in the mental model of the 1950s?
The decade of unprecedented prosperity in America? When capitalism was going full blast, with the workers in unions to keep the owners in check? When the rich were heavily taxed? Sounds just fucking great to me.
Yeah... and hou sustainable did it turn out to be?
We dropped the unions and taxation of the rich. No reason that could not have continued. No reason we can't do it again.