• Karlach@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They own nothing. There are people and material resources. To say those 3 people own anything perpetuates the illusion of their control and influence of material resources. All the capital and means of production those numbers represent are out there now, being used and maintained by the proletariat.

    Our survival does not depend on the existence of capitalists or the size of their numbers. Everything we need to survive is available to us. We are institutionalized to believe we must sell our labour in exchange for what we need. Capitalists are a redundant parasitic intermediary.

    The proletariat outnumber the capitalists and their enforcers. If we want more self-determination, we must stop submitting to the capitalist system and break free from the illusion that we must rely on their system to survive. We don’t need them. They need us.

    There are no numbers. Only people and resources.

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      11 months ago

      However, for those under certain illusions, exposing that the illusions fail on their merits helps some advance beyond them.