How about everyone learn to organize and actively disconnect from the capitalist system … boycott, boycott, boycott.
First organize and boycott one sector, with one company and complete ostracize them. Make the one company completely fail. Then move onto the next company and on and on.
There was a movement here in Canada in the 2000s when the price of gas rose. Gas was consistently at about 0.60 cents (or there abouts) at the time. When it rose one or two cents, people were enraged. When it rose by five cents, people started organizing. Groups started forming and suggested that everyone spend a week and boycott onto PetroCan stations … then the next week boycott Esso … then the next week Shell … and so on. It had an effect because prices leveled out for a while and there was an outcry to get rid of those organizing groups. Shortly after, all those groups on FB, Twitter and every where else started dying off from internal bickering and arguments and all those ideas of boycotts just slowly faded away. Then everyone just gradually accepted rising gas prices and it became normalized to have the price of gas rise and fall by ten cents in a week. Now it’s all just normal.
Boycotts actually work and if everyone organized and just targetted one company, we could maintain our level of comfort and what we enjoy while at the same time dealing a death blow to one company. Then when we’ve taken that whale move on to the next one and on and on.
Capitalist don’t react to anything … they don’t care about people, health, welfare, humanity or decency … the only thing they fear and respond to is if you threaten to take away their money and wealth. And the amazing thing about this stand off is that we … everyone … supplies these wealthy overlords with the power to hold over all of us. We actively give away our power to allow them to control our lives.
Organizing means getting people together and educated to take action. To use strength in numbers. Boycotts are nearly always done as individualistic moralizing campaigns. They are not organizing and they are vulnerable to PR, as their primary basis of communication is already basically PR.
They can have good effects and can help agitate, but you are absolutely, 100%, not going to take on the haute bourgeoisie with a boycott. It will register as decreased demand and then a recession, something they are happy to preside over. A recession means they, being the people with money to weather the recession while smaller businesses fail, get to cut wages, discipline labor, and then finally expand or buy up failed businesses as the recession recedes. Many of these effects are why BDS is a good idea for impacting “Israel”, as it needs to sell itself as a safe and attractive market for people to move and stay there as colonists.
To overthrow the bourgeoisie you need a revolution. This is not because anyone just loves fighting, but because the bourgeoisie will not leave you any other option. To organize for revolution you must join and contribute to a revolutionary organization.
How about everyone learn to organize and actively disconnect from the capitalist system … boycott, boycott, boycott.
First organize and boycott one sector, with one company and complete ostracize them. Make the one company completely fail. Then move onto the next company and on and on.
There was a movement here in Canada in the 2000s when the price of gas rose. Gas was consistently at about 0.60 cents (or there abouts) at the time. When it rose one or two cents, people were enraged. When it rose by five cents, people started organizing. Groups started forming and suggested that everyone spend a week and boycott onto PetroCan stations … then the next week boycott Esso … then the next week Shell … and so on. It had an effect because prices leveled out for a while and there was an outcry to get rid of those organizing groups. Shortly after, all those groups on FB, Twitter and every where else started dying off from internal bickering and arguments and all those ideas of boycotts just slowly faded away. Then everyone just gradually accepted rising gas prices and it became normalized to have the price of gas rise and fall by ten cents in a week. Now it’s all just normal.
Boycotts actually work and if everyone organized and just targetted one company, we could maintain our level of comfort and what we enjoy while at the same time dealing a death blow to one company. Then when we’ve taken that whale move on to the next one and on and on.
Capitalist don’t react to anything … they don’t care about people, health, welfare, humanity or decency … the only thing they fear and respond to is if you threaten to take away their money and wealth. And the amazing thing about this stand off is that we … everyone … supplies these wealthy overlords with the power to hold over all of us. We actively give away our power to allow them to control our lives.
Organizing means getting people together and educated to take action. To use strength in numbers. Boycotts are nearly always done as individualistic moralizing campaigns. They are not organizing and they are vulnerable to PR, as their primary basis of communication is already basically PR.
They can have good effects and can help agitate, but you are absolutely, 100%, not going to take on the haute bourgeoisie with a boycott. It will register as decreased demand and then a recession, something they are happy to preside over. A recession means they, being the people with money to weather the recession while smaller businesses fail, get to cut wages, discipline labor, and then finally expand or buy up failed businesses as the recession recedes. Many of these effects are why BDS is a good idea for impacting “Israel”, as it needs to sell itself as a safe and attractive market for people to move and stay there as colonists.
To overthrow the bourgeoisie you need a revolution. This is not because anyone just loves fighting, but because the bourgeoisie will not leave you any other option. To organize for revolution you must join and contribute to a revolutionary organization.
Just to have a more positive story next to this, basically the same thing happened with Croatia and price gouging grocery stores a month ago.
Except there, the boycott won out. Prices went back down to normal inflation levels.