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   RobCornelius (robcornelius@climatejustice.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 17:48:41 JST RobCornelius

   I have been reading The Solutions Are Already Here https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8bbebef2-754c-41ce-a1b7-489303de816d
   and Let This Radicalize You https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b51b61e2-d4de-410a-8430-50938bfedb60

   They are both good and well meaning books full of inspirational stories of people organising to try and make things better for their communities. Some of those people are fighting state repression and violence.

   The problem I have is that while local organising and resistance is of course vital its never going to beat the statist capitalist system. No matter how motivated your comrades are they can't realistically overthrow capitalism by creating community projects.

   Fuck it, we are doomed.

   #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #organising #resistance

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     RobCornelius (robcornelius@climatejustice.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 20:33:40 JST RobCornelius

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     @woodbark

     I guess we follow the two books I mentioned and do what we can for our local communities. We *might* be able to lessen the impact of the #polycrisis of #capitalism in small pockets of resistance.

     We look after our own basically.

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     RobCornelius (robcornelius@climatejustice.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 22:14:25 JST RobCornelius

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     @woodbark

     That was what I meant by my original reply. I don't see how we can go beyond small neighbourhood changes though.

     For instance food security for the small town I live in would be a wonderful goal. We have allotments and a small community orchard already, lots of people grow fruit and veg in their gardens of course. We could appropriate scraps of land around the town to turn them over to growing food.

     To be really secure we would have to appropriate nearby land for growing food for the town instead of for profit. That is never going to happen. Money and the law protect the land owners.

     So even at the scale of a small town in Southern England things are hard.

     Capitalism is a motherfucker.