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Might be my favorite anarchist of all time!
Dayum, Lucy! She’d be banned from Reddit if she said that. Then she’d have to come to Lemmy with the rest of us who’ve gotten banned everywhere for speaking our minds.
I was banned from Reddit for posting this quote so, lol, checks out.
thats why they are freaking out over madhami in NYC, Madhami said paying a small amount of taxes by rich shouldnt affect them significantly, but what people said in a reddit thread recently, they are afraid it opens up more legislation against them. think it was specifically ackerman donating 1mil+ to the sex ghoul cumuo
It’s “Mamdani”… Not “Madhami”
Just wanting to point that out.
The relationship of the revolutionary workers’ party to the petty-bourgeois democrats is this: it cooperates with them against the party which they aim to overthrow; it opposes them wherever they wish to secure their own position.
the workers, and above all the League, must work for the creation of an independent organization of the workers’ party, both secret and open, and alongside the official democrats
Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention.
- Karl Marx, address to the Communist League
Second favorite Lucy Parsons quote after “Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.” awesome person
Absolutely based, no war but class war
one of the purge episode of rick and morty is like that. the alien girl ended up slaughtering with a tech suit all the “aristocrats” because they were trying to end the purge that kept the “poors” distracted.
Nor will they let you vote their power away.
I feel this is true federally for sure, but I feel it’s still possible at the state level, especially in Blue states.
The big corporations may threaten to walk away, but it’s not like they pay much in taxes for many states anyways. Often they take more than they promise to give back to communities.
Plus, if those big corporations leave, then new local companies can fill the void left behind. Companies that are paying those higher tax rates as well.
We could even have corporate tax brackets so small Mom and Pop shops are paying a lower tax rate than the big corporations.
I don’t think Parsons was talking about taxes, but a reordering of society where oligarchs don’t control government. That’s not on the ballot of any State in this Union. And it’s never ever going to be.
It’s not going to be on the ballot itself, but it can be in hearts of those holding office. If we foster a culture of caring for others and elect leaders that act to help those living in their communities, then we can begin to see a difference being made.
Taxes are a big part of moving power back into the hands of the people. Higher taxes on big corporations can help fund programs like Universal Basic Income, Universal Healthcare, more public housing, and help pay for people’s end of life care.
We’ve been shooting for the stars too much, wanting to change everything so we can help everyone at once. When really, states/provinces should focus on implementing those progressive programs for themselves, and only then try to sell other states/provinces on these programs that we can prove work for us.
they will try to flee toa country with low or no corporate taxes, plus they hide thier money through tax havens like swiss,deustche bank, cayman island, cyrus,etc. international money laundering.
Then we gotta slap them wimps with import fees, we can do a trade deal with our allies to make it harder for them. If they can’t spend it they’re pissed, and if we do not allow them to take loans out against their unsold stocks they really are stuck.
I agree with you, they’ll do what they can to keep some money safe and maybe squirrel away to somewhere they won’t be slapped with fees, but they’ll lose access to many of their US assets if they just try to avoid the US market altogether. They want us to believe that the game will always be won by them. Because they’ve always been holding the best cards, they know if they slip up then they may have to play on a fair playing field.
Its true in a world sense.
I agree that the problem appears globally.
The best way to tackle the problem though is local and together. If there are enough communities that care to make change happen, then it can start to occur at the province/state level.
While not every other province or state will be on board with trying those measures, the people living in those areas might be convinced to change when they see their neighbors starting to benefit from progressive programs.
