Someone argued with me that buying stuff enables capitalism and that buying things in itself is already performing capitalism. They then went on to say that the best way to overcome capitalism is by simply not participating in it (instead of revolution, something they explicitly rejected). When I asked how they intend to do that they told me that they work at a cooperative, only take public transport, and live in council housing. They, therefore, don’t participate in capitalism, and doing so is a personal choice, not a systematic one.
I have a hard time accepting that as a viable solution since they forgot that: not everyone can work in a cooperative or live in council housing by the simple virtue of not being available and that they completely ignored stuff like buying groceries or that public transport is still run for profit (at least in my country).
Are there more counters to their argument? Am I missing something? Do they have a valid argument in the end?
And food comes from where…? Spoken like a true lib who take their basic essential lifelines for granted and think food grows out of supermarket stalls without ever giving a single thought to capitalistic and often exploitatively reality they benefit from.