Can Progressives build a movement

WV,

Wanted to say a belated thanks for that video you posted earlier. Can’t remember the name or the title. But it had your favorite hippy dude, talking about arbitrary and forced “scarcity” and the upside down nature of this.

It was a very concise way of explaining why it’s so crazy that we ever, ever allow money to dictate life or death matters, or our ability to pursue educational, cultural, artistic, scientific dreams, etc. etc.

“Money” is a fiction. Its allocation under the current system is entirely arbitrary and bizarre. In reality, it’s potentially unlimited in digital form. Which means, no one on earth should be poor. No one on earth should be homeless, hungry, kept out of schools, go without healthcare, etc. etc. We literally could allocate digital currency to everyone so there is no more poverty in the slightest. Currency is theoretically infinite.

Earth’s natural resources obviously aren’t, but it’s those things that capitalism treats as if they were infinite. Like safe water, arable land, etc. etc.

We need to wake up and create new fictions that serve all people. Currently, our fictions serve the few and crush the many — and kill the planet.

Hope all is well, WV.

Billy_T wrote:

It’s weird, though, being Russian TV. Russia, since the end of the state-capitalist, Soviet system, and especially now, is even more crazed laissez faire, neoliberal and Wild, Wild West capitalist than we are. And we wrote the book on the subject.

RT is deliberate manipulation/propaganda. That;s what you get when you have a former KGB guy in charge. The argument is see, democracy doesn’t work anywhere. So they kill the left in Russia and fund the left (or a portion of it) in the USA. And it’s not like RT gives you “the truth.” It too is an orchestrated line. For example you will never get a genuine critique of the Russian role in Syria or the Ukraine from RT. So the Russian line in Syria, laughably enough, is that they resist imperialism. Which is what happens when you forget your Marx. Marx never said there was imperialism. He said there are competing imperialismS. The key is that there’s more than one…including Russia’s brand.