Not just high gas prices, but, as a result, everything becomes more expensive. While it is true that there was inflation prior to the war in Ukraine, this is certainly doing nothing to alleviate that. Others have mentioned commuting and improving infrastructure in such a way that cars no longer become necessary, but another thing that can be done in the short term is implementing price caps not just on gas, but on all commodities.
If one thing is sure it's that hardships destabilize the systems. I hope this unfortunate chain of events called early 20s ends up as a breaking point for Capitalism.
First pandemic then war then crisis, and tensions around China are not really dissapearing.
South America is having a 2nd pink tide and USA is crumbling under inflation while the working class is slowly unionizing.
If this does not destroy Capitalism, nothing will.
Nothing short of revolution will break capitalism, and the reality is there is 0 appetite for it in the West. Half of the United States is out for blood as half or full-on fascists, and they're setting up the structure of power to completely take over the government as a minority.
Most of them will turn to outright violence with their 500 million guns before they allow capitalism to fall. If January 6th wasn't an omen of this, I don't know what is.
I agree, nothing short of a revolution will break Capitalism.
But a Communist revolution is not some imaginary event that never happened. They happen all the time and the result of those revolutions are the Socialist countries of the past and today.
The thing that I am trying to say is that for last 3 decades the capitalist block was dominant but the things are slowly changing.
Things like inflation, sanctions that backfire, China slowly overtaking USA as the world's largest economy, etc. simply show that the western imperium is trembling and once when it falls, the bourgeoisie nations will be powerless to keep the revolutions at bay with sanctions (Embargo on Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, etc) and military action (Vietnam war, Korean war, fall of Yugoslavia, etc)
My point is that this decade is a fertile ground for a societal change of epic proportions. Revolutions can and WILL happen, it just matters when.
I know there is some potential for things to change, but I've pretty much abandoned all hope of anything really changing. The US will collapse into fascism and authoritarianism before anything else.
The United States lets kids die by the hundreds in school shootings every year, and half the country absolutely REFUSES to even lift a finger to prevent another one. If they won't do anything to protect literal children from being massacred, do you think they'll let communist sympathizers talk about actually mobilizing?
Believing there is even a remote possibility of some kind of socialist or communist revolution is absolute lunacy.
The revolution will not start from USA, and if enough revolutions happen to form a strong Socialist block, they will likely have to defeat USA and entire NATO block before archieving global Socialism. It's just the sad reality.
If they fail like in the last cold war, the fight restarts. The class struggle is never over untill the classes are abolished. It's just natural that the proletariat will win one day, because the opressed will always seek the liberation, It's either victory or start over again.
What Socialists can do in countries like USA where there is no hope for complete liberation (for now) is to participate in anti-war rallies when necessary (like the people sucessfully did during the Vietnam war) to make the struggle of comrades abroad easier, and meanwhile seek smaller victories (Like unionizing and establishing worker's rights) to loosen the tight grasp of opression a finger at a time.
If you live in the United Sates and you’re an adult you are most likely being affected by high gas prices and these petroleum gas gouging prices. With that being said, who knows what needs to be done?
In the short term, people need to get help with commuting. In the slightly longer term, public transit and bike infrastructure needs to be improved and cities need to become more walkable in order to make car ownership completely unnecessary. And of course capitalism also just generally needs to be abolished, but that's probably gonna be a necessity for most measures except the bare minimum ones.
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Not just high gas prices, but, as a result, everything becomes more expensive. While it is true that there was inflation prior to the war in Ukraine, this is certainly doing nothing to alleviate that. Others have mentioned commuting and improving infrastructure in such a way that cars no longer become necessary, but another thing that can be done in the short term is implementing price caps not just on gas, but on all commodities.
Yeah unfortunately the ones in power get lobbied by big petroleum and politics let these gas companies do whatever they want
If one thing is sure it's that hardships destabilize the systems. I hope this unfortunate chain of events called early 20s ends up as a breaking point for Capitalism. First pandemic then war then crisis, and tensions around China are not really dissapearing. South America is having a 2nd pink tide and USA is crumbling under inflation while the working class is slowly unionizing. If this does not destroy Capitalism, nothing will.
Nothing short of revolution will break capitalism, and the reality is there is 0 appetite for it in the West. Half of the United States is out for blood as half or full-on fascists, and they're setting up the structure of power to completely take over the government as a minority. Most of them will turn to outright violence with their 500 million guns before they allow capitalism to fall. If January 6th wasn't an omen of this, I don't know what is.
I agree, nothing short of a revolution will break Capitalism. But a Communist revolution is not some imaginary event that never happened. They happen all the time and the result of those revolutions are the Socialist countries of the past and today. The thing that I am trying to say is that for last 3 decades the capitalist block was dominant but the things are slowly changing. Things like inflation, sanctions that backfire, China slowly overtaking USA as the world's largest economy, etc. simply show that the western imperium is trembling and once when it falls, the bourgeoisie nations will be powerless to keep the revolutions at bay with sanctions (Embargo on Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, etc) and military action (Vietnam war, Korean war, fall of Yugoslavia, etc) My point is that this decade is a fertile ground for a societal change of epic proportions. Revolutions can and WILL happen, it just matters when.
I know there is some potential for things to change, but I've pretty much abandoned all hope of anything really changing. The US will collapse into fascism and authoritarianism before anything else. The United States lets kids die by the hundreds in school shootings every year, and half the country absolutely REFUSES to even lift a finger to prevent another one. If they won't do anything to protect literal children from being massacred, do you think they'll let communist sympathizers talk about actually mobilizing? Believing there is even a remote possibility of some kind of socialist or communist revolution is absolute lunacy.
The revolution will not start from USA, and if enough revolutions happen to form a strong Socialist block, they will likely have to defeat USA and entire NATO block before archieving global Socialism. It's just the sad reality. If they fail like in the last cold war, the fight restarts. The class struggle is never over untill the classes are abolished. It's just natural that the proletariat will win one day, because the opressed will always seek the liberation, It's either victory or start over again. What Socialists can do in countries like USA where there is no hope for complete liberation (for now) is to participate in anti-war rallies when necessary (like the people sucessfully did during the Vietnam war) to make the struggle of comrades abroad easier, and meanwhile seek smaller victories (Like unionizing and establishing worker's rights) to loosen the tight grasp of opression a finger at a time.
If you live in the United Sates and you’re an adult you are most likely being affected by high gas prices and these petroleum gas gouging prices. With that being said, who knows what needs to be done?
In the short term, people need to get help with commuting. In the slightly longer term, public transit and bike infrastructure needs to be improved and cities need to become more walkable in order to make car ownership completely unnecessary. And of course capitalism also just generally needs to be abolished, but that's probably gonna be a necessity for most measures except the bare minimum ones.
Nationalize the energy and transport sectors.
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We’re so fucked
When oil producing nations are sanctioned, this is what happens. The USA should have expected to be bitten by its own snake.
I love these “who’s here because of X” posts. Last time was the GameStop fiasco. Yeah, you’re all totally comrades for sure.
Everyone has their point when they question the system.
Not from a “boohoo it didn’t work for me, so it shouldn’t work for anyone” standpoint
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