• TheDialectic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    If you consider him being gen x and developing his political consciousness in the end of history and weatching everything slowly degrade then rapidly degrade that perspective is easy to imagine

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      Yeah. I suspect he’s, at one point, come to the conclusion that a revolution is the only way but then he was like ‘nah, we’d totally lose that’. The young environmentalist he was talking to kept pointing out all of the things we need to do are contrary to the interest of capital so we need to combat them. His response was something like ‘We literally don’t have time to overthrow the capitalists, so we have to negotiate on their terms.’ The problem with that is they have absolutely no reason to negotiate with us unless we can threaten them in any way.