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Ambitionz as a Fully Horizontal Society

In the current day and age of Capitalist Exploitation, Mass Surveillance and Air BnB buying up every house on the planet, we don't have many options but to engage with the system to survive. This has the effect of draining us of every penny, whilst the elite then use that money to further oppress us. No good, right? Well, what do we do? Continue to allow this? To either be Cattle, or the Judas Goat? I think not, in fact, I know not. I will not continue to be beat down under this system, the system that locked me in a cage as a child and stole my dignity. I know you who has read this far will not either. Here's what I suggest:


  • Trade Unions and Federations: Unions can be a powerful tool for collective bargaining, and pushing back against capitalist interest. Federations are doubly so. For us to push back against capitalist interest, we must withhold from them their most valuable resource, labor. By doing that we might have a little, just a little, bit of wiggle room to breathe.
  • Worker Collectives and Cooperatives: If Unions are a dagger to stab the heart of capital, collectives and cooperatives are like the Gep Gun from Deus EX. This is a way to completely remove workers from the interests of Capitalists, and to democratize the workplace in a fully horizontal structure. No bargaining, no bosses and above all else, no money going upwards.
  • Neo-Communes and Collective Housing: In this day and age, housing is awful. And it seems like the ones profiting from this, as seen by Landord-Tok (real thing) are some of the most awful people imaginable. I know I do not want my money going to paying off the mortgage of some smug, sweater vest wearing prat who thinks he deserves a fucking tip as a landlord. If you have the ability, pool money together and create environments away from that. It doesn't have to be some hippy dippy open plot with a bunch of yurts either, it can look like and Apartment building with a large garden instead of a parking lot, it can look like a series of duplexes on a farm, it can look like anything really. Dealers choice. This also allows for collective spending, on tools and transportation. Really a win-win.
  • Creating Closed Communications: If we are to create an environment outside of capitalist exploitation, we must not give them any access to our communications. Plenty of workers movements have been shot down (literally) due to the state cooperating with the Capital Owners. We must not allow that to happen and must create our own networks to communicate. I suggest hosting your own websites, utilizing encrypted messaging apps, Mastodon servers and eventually you can make the shift to LoRa networks to create your own fully functional, encrypted cellular network.

If we can start to focus on these, we might be able to push back and create an environment where we don't have to fight just to exist.


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