change my view
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/238912
If you’ve ever looked at how rightwing movements operate, it appears they throw a lot of money around. And because of the world we live in, it gets results, ex the canadian trucker protest having basically all the same amenities as a festival, nearly a theme park. Advertising budget. Funding institutions/youtube channels to spread bs.
I think the first thing a leftist should do is, in order:
- get a good enough income for themself. This can include mutual aid or even things like food banks, depending on your philosophy.
1b) study some finance, ex the finance diet and use tricks from financial sources to boost income. This includes stock market/saving for retirement. I can elaborate later if u want on why savings are important. Including trying to use tax loop holes for our advantage. The rightwingers get an edge from this, we need to even the playing field
take care of other important things like enough exercise, good diet, dating
actual left things. But starting with making sure other lefties are well off financially. I’m not sure how to do this and not create capitalists. But technically if you have 0.0001% of stocks, you (the worker) owns 0.0001% of the means of production of that company. A good approach might be starting a worker co-op, where you give people a good wage and recruit youngins right out of high school. That way they learn what a just economic system is and when they branch of to other companies, they will hopefully expect just treatment and be more ready to push for a union in their new workplace.
To think Rightwing groups have money because their members are “so motivated and discplined” is just complete and utter hogwash and misunderstanding of the continueity and transfer of wealth in this society since colonialism/imperialism/the holocaust and the empire of vertically integrated drug money laundering that the “west” has become since it started cooperating with the likes of REINHARD GEHLEN & KLAUS BARBIE
It’s all WW2 loot and drug money. colonial loot hidden in the shell companies and corporations under f.e. Dupont(heritage of the congo genocide, rubber slavery, e.t.c.) insurance and banking money stolen in financial crashes, bubbles and ponzi schams to which nobody was ever jailed but maybe a single public fall-guy… and no institutional changes to the system but evening out the bad PR and taking the money from the tax payer. just think about AIG/ENRON
At least over here, trades people are big rightwing simps. Trades people who i’ve spoken to irl come from modest backgrounds, like their parents aren’t bankers or business owners. They come out for protests together (antimask protests). A lot of the trades people ive spoken to enough are ex cons too.
Not 100%, but to an extent, leftwingers ive met are in lower paying jobs like cashiers. Not that I know each person’s situation
often rely on secrecy in order to stay ahead of competition, which fosters a climate of criminal&clandestine behaviour - the battle for extra scraps gets extra dirty. And: to be part of a larger association, small trade groups tend to be very much vertically integrated into syndicates they can’t even begin to comprehend.
Richard Sennett once wrote a nice book about the flexibility of work environment and obfuscation through modularisation in a flexible work environment… which more people should have read in the 2000s but everyone was like, “yay, Fukuyama, history is over, let’s party…”