RE: RE: My response to "Capitalism is the problem"
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RE: My response to "Capitalism is the problem"

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To this I will respond insofar as I do not think you are naive, but that your words will be heard, rest assured. What the people think or say will be heard. Also and in particular by those who govern such a people. From your words I gather that it is not you who wants to be or is the one who governs (you might otherwise be a politician, for example), but you desire a strong form of change that integrates your aspirations.

Now, who is going to do it?

If "everyone" or "the majority" renounce capitalism (i.e., banish property), how should the resulting form of coexistence be shaped? What form should it be? Who is to organize it? How should this paradigm shift take place in concrete terms? Through voluntarism, or not? What do you do with people who don't want it that way?

Even if such, abolish property, were possible (which I don't assume), there would still have to be structures and organizations to take charge of it, wouldn't there? Laws that are enacted, executives that implement it?

Or is your thinking not of the large-scale kind? If not national scale (or even global), what scale are you talking about? If you're thinking in terms of smaller local movements, what would they be? And how should these local or regional communities achieve what you have in mind? How should they manage, organize, and distribute what they generate if, for example, they don't own the land or the means of production? Who then tells them what to do? A central body? The office superior to them? What would you answer to such people if they think that they are able to use their skills and knowledge for the best?

My reference to such small communities is formulated in terms of a self-efficacy that people want to experience when, for example, they jointly manage land and goods. What they are doing there in Tamera (Portugal), for example, is learning how to use modern technologies and knowledge of permaculture to re-vegetate and revitalize devastated lands, what forms of energy can be used, how they can be improved, and so on. It could have been that you would be interested in this.

I addressed you from the point of view of a self-effective person, not from the point of view of a victim or refugee who is not able to negotiate his salary.

I worked as a social counselor for about ten years and met and got to know many foreigners whom I helped negotiate their salaries, for example, or go over their employment contracts with them, their claims against them or insurance and the like. I had some pleasing results that were to their advantage. If you wish to help victims or the disadvantaged, there are certainly avenues open to you that only you can seek.

I hope that clarifies my position as well. :)

To sum up what I'm saying, the current governments could also take you to mean that you don't want property. So enough people express such, how do you think they would be understood by those very governments?