#libertarian socialism

[whereserpentswalk]

Nonsexual nudity needs to be fully accepted in our society. It should be legal in public. It should be allowed in media regardless of rating or target audience. There is nothing about the human body that is inherently harmful to see or inherently sexual. Reblog if you agree.

[blackcat-brazil]

[shroobles]

[wiki-fight]

[magnusthepuppet]

if you engage in infighting, you are useless as a leftist.

if you tell people to k*ll themselves, you are useless as a leftist.

if you do not believe in somebody’s ability to change, you are useless as a leftist.

if you do not practice nuanced thinking, you are useless as a leftist.

if you are unable to have compassion for your fellow human, you are useless as a leftist.

[nihilo-sensei]

Capitalism: "Look at all the mass surveillance in the Warsaw Pact states. We would never do that!"

Also capitalism: [Builds most sophisticated mass surveillance network in human history, most of it to better serve you ads with weird stock photos like someone putting an onion in their sock to cure their breast cancer or some shit.]

[progressive-politico]

Capitalism cannot exist without massive exploitation of the majority of the people on our planet.

[satyrradio]

every single ancap argument is so backwards like. "whose gonna stop me from owning private property in an anarchist society" who is gonna enforce your 'ownership' in the first place?? 💀💀

[scottishcommune]

"The Rojava revolution’s economic plan is called a “People’s Economy” to differentiate it from traditional market and socialist (i.e. state) economies. But though it posits itself as an alternative to the dualism of capitalism and communism, it is really not a fully formed model as of yet. There are three major concepts in the People’s Economy: commons, private property based on use, and worker-administered businesses. The Rojava economic experiment is less an implementation of a single concept than a jury-rigged system that must respond to the needs of a war and a crippling economic embargo....

Traditional “private property” was abolished in late 2012, meaning all buildings, land, and infrastructure fell under control of the various city councils. This did not mean people no longer owned their homes or businesses, however. The councils implemented an “ownership by use” sovereign principle, a principle that could not be overturned by any council. Ownership by use means that when a building like a home or a business is being used by a person or persons, the users would in fact own the land and structures but would not be able to sell them on an open market. Öcalan wrote that use ownership is what prevents speculation and capital accumulation which in turn leads to exploitation. Aside from property owned by use, in principle any other property would become commons. This abolishing of private property did not extend to commodities like automobiles, machines, electronics, furniture, etc. but was limited to land, infrastructure, and structures.

The commons encompasses land, infrastructure, and buildings not owned by individuals but held in stewardship by the councils. Councils can turn over these public goods to individuals to be used. Commons are conceived of as a way to provide both a safety net for those without resources and a way to maximize use of the material resources of the community. Commons also include the ecological aspects of the region including water, parks, wildlife and wilderness, and even most livestock. According to Dr. Ahmad Yousef, an economic co-minister, three-quarters of traditional private property is being used as commons and one quarter is still being owned by use of individuals. The PEP posits that the commons are robust enough economically that there is no need for taxes, and since the beginning of the Rojava revolution there have been no taxes of any type."

- A Mountain River Has Many Bends

[hakaiika]

Study progress for Project HECoPS!

(P.s, blurred out bits are so I dont dox myself!)

[breawycker]

People talk about human rights in like the US versus so called "socialist" countries (USSR, Cuba, China, etc which I do not support) or other authoritarian countries as if people didn't have to fight and die for those rights. The government didn't just end slavery, allow women and people of color to vote, have better labor laws, queer rights, etc. The government did horrible things to those who tried to fight slavery or get better working conditions. How much opposition there was to these groups. We don't have to even think about how in the future people will look back and see us as backwards for not supporting these issues because a lot of them are just the same issues we've been fighting and supporting for years. Especially since the government can just erase our rights like with Roe v. Wade or all the anti-trans and racist laws. How many people died in the civil rights movement before the state was like fine we'll give you the bare minimum? How many more will die for us to keep the scraps they give us? We come out in the millions and yet the bombings in Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon continued. When are we all going to get together and decided "Enough"?

[whereserpentswalk]

I don't dream of a future where little girls grow up wanting to be ceos, or lockheed martin scientists, or soldiers, or whatever a human recourses developer is. I dream of a world where girls grow up wanting to be occultist practitioners, and sex workers, and unhinged artists, and boys.

[blackcat-brazil]

[shroobles]

[evpath]

Power breeds Parasites, Long live Anarchy. -Makhnovist Moto

[scouse1g]

Germany's inability to condemn ethnic cleansing and genocide is proof that they were never truly denazified.