ANYTHING rather than end capitalism!
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As all of us are urged to “prepare for” more destructive weather, more global warming, more war, and “the end of life as we know it” – all presented as inevitable and which we can only learn “to prepare for”, the latest, we are told, is for humans to move to another planet. Obviously we are to take capitalism with us, and bugger up that world too.
ANYTHING, ANYTHING rather than overthrow capitalism – which is of course too far-fetched and not an option.
Exactly. We are constantly told to “adapt”, to “prepare”, to accept catastrophe as inevitable — climate breakdown, permanent war, mass displacement, even escaping to another planet. Everything is imaginable except the one solution that addresses the root cause: abolishing capitalism itself.
The ruling class presents capitalism as eternal, but treats human survival as optional. Instead of questioning a system that produces ecological destruction, poverty and war, we are offered technological fantasies and individual coping strategies.
As Marx put it, “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.” Today, that idea is that capitalism is unavoidable — even when it is visibly incompatible with the continuation of a decent human life.
Socialism is not unrealistic. What is truly unrealistic is believing we can preserve a profit-driven system on a finite planet — or export it to another one without repeating the same disaster.
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