Someone argued with me that buying stuff enables capitalism and that buying things in itself is already performing capitalism. They then went on to say that the best way to overcome capitalism is by simply not participating in it (instead of revolution, something they explicitly rejected). When I asked how they intend to do that they told me that they work at a cooperative, only take public transport, and live in council housing. They, therefore, don’t participate in capitalism, and doing so is a personal choice, not a systematic one.
I have a hard time accepting that as a viable solution since they forgot that: not everyone can work in a cooperative or live in council housing by the simple virtue of not being available and that they completely ignored stuff like buying groceries or that public transport is still run for profit (at least in my country).
Are there more counters to their argument? Am I missing something? Do they have a valid argument in the end?
Lol how was public housing built? How is a bus built? The supply chain of everything engages capitalism. So no, you can’t just ignore capitalism and bury your head in the sand to bypass the need for revolution
Anarchists, basically. Really, I have been told that “I am not a communist because communist talks about oppression and oppressing the bourgeoisie once socialism is stablished and I don’t like oppression!”. They think that the solution is to pretend the main problem doesn’t exist.
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“NOOOOOOO THAT WOULD BE AUTHORITARIAN!!! IT’S LESS AUTHORITARIAN TO LET THE PEOPLE WITH ALREADY THE INALTERABLE PRIVILEGES TO REMAIN LIKE THAT, LIKE IT ISN’T AUTHORITARIAN AT ALL NOOOOOOOOO!!!”
You also can’t have a revolution, so it’s tedious discussion forums and horrible self-sucking memes from here on out