• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Your purchases have no impact, eh?

      Not under the profit motive, no. Industries monopolize. Territory is enclosed. Goods and services are enahittified. None of that is a consequence of consumer demand.

      Where do the ultra wealthy get there wealth again,

      The violent seizure of primitive and industrial capital from the working class.

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      11 days ago

      Through the private ownership over the means of production which they leverage against the proletariat through the commodification of community goods and resources in order to coerce their labor of which they then profit off in a cruel and oppressive cycle of forced dependency which is maintained through the state.

      This is like Leftism 101.

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          11 days ago

          By organizing to take back the means of production and revolutionize the system. Not uselessly deny yourself simple pleasures to feel morally superior to others by buying into the capitalist propaganda which shifts blame onto the consumer and away from the owners of production.

          It’s literally Leftism 101 and you’re failing.