cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36828107
ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:
"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.
Period.
If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.
There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."
Capitalism requires indefinite growth.
We have a word for something that grows indefinitely. It’s called “cancer”, and it eventually kills whichever organism it’s a part of by stealing nutrients designed for other parts of the system. The only way for an organism with cancer to survive is if the cancer is killed off before the organism dies.
That’s where we’re at. Capitalism might have gotten us this far, but the same can be said about any person with cancer. What worked for us in the past isn’t guaranteed to work for us in the future, and could actively be what’s killing us.
We have to adapt.