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Why ppl who criticize capitalism but also hate communism, anarchism, or any other popular potential replacement ALSO hold fast to random hair brained schemes only they know about?

It happens so much so I'll pick one example and I hope folks know the kind of person and attitude I'm talking about. Someone was complaining about awful bosses and conditions for hotel workers and terrible wages for people who clean rooms. They hated capitalism, but also hated communist and anarchism, etc. I asked, well what would you do about any problem at all since u understand capitalism is straight evil and they said “well hotel workers make terrible wages often below minimum for some of the jobs like cleaning rooms so I think everyone should get hotel rooms and NO ONE tips at the hotel to force the workers to unionize because their wages will be so low!” and like…that's such an evil idea lmao. People will unionize without their customers being awful to them. IDK I wish ppl would just study popular anti-capitalist politics and find some existing…


It happens so much so I'll pick one example and I hope folks know the kind of person and attitude I'm talking about. Someone was complaining about awful bosses and conditions for hotel workers and terrible wages for people who clean rooms. They hated capitalism, but also hated communist and anarchism, etc. I asked, well what would you do about any problem at all since u understand capitalism is straight evil and they said “well hotel workers make terrible wages often below minimum for some of the jobs like cleaning rooms so I think everyone should get hotel rooms and NO ONE tips at the hotel to force the workers to unionize because their wages will be so low!” and like…that's such an evil idea lmao. People will unionize without their customers being awful to them. IDK I wish ppl would just study popular anti-capitalist politics and find some existing things they like. Folks are not gonna think of something more clever than what millions and millions of worker class people have thought in the past 200+ years. Honestly I beg everyone to start with history and existing movements and build their politics from there because you are not a singular world shaking genius, sorry lol.

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