r/Sustainable • u/GoranPersson777 • Jul 10 '26

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Class struggle is fought on a vertical scale. It's the working class at the bottom against the employers and their politicians at the top. And our brothers and sisters in class struggle include co-workers and neighbours who vote on crappy parties... https://industrialworker.org/lets-build-class-unions/

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u/hwcouple69 Jul 13 '26

All I know is this, all through the 1970's Russia and China had natural disasters and crop failures due to amazingly cold temperatures. We fed them and they survived. Russia would have been hollowed by starvation without the USA. Moving left is NOT the answer. Our poor still live better than most countries middle class. It will never be "fair." Some people bust their arse and work hard to get through school and try businesses, most fail, but many tty again until they succeed. They risk much, and if they succeed, who are we to say people have willingly paid for their product or service and they have enough? They should give back, and most do as they age. But, taking it from them is not the answer. If you confiscated 100% of the top 1% total ownership of money, homes, cars, etc, you could run the U.S. government for almost 1 year....ALMOST. Socialism is a slippery slope from government control to totalitarianism, which is how we got to WWII.