We haven't done nothing. There's Rojava and the EZLN building whole competing systems. There's loads of people doing mutual aid or building cooperative economic structures all over the world, and those movements are gaining a lot of traction as people are waking up to how shit things are.

You don't usually hear about all these projects, in the same way you may not notice termites hollowing out a structure until it's far too late to save it.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any links at hand for all that?

If not, I will try to add find and them to this chain for future reference.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh thanks for reminding me!

Anark | Liberation in Action Playlist

It used to be really hard to give a good list of these sorts of movements, but this series by Anark just puts it all in one place.

The first video is him just reading off a list, but this is the list in written form, which I find much easier to parse: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W1wWjWNXhvHjMzzyxT5z5Es_kE6xmTYSadGSJfuVtpE/edit#heading=h.p04t775v871g

The next few videos are deeper dives into some of these, and the series is ongoing, so this playlist link should stay current as he releases more.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the quick reference links!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

I hope you have noticed that Rojava is next to Turkey, has lost much of its territory to Turkey, and can lose the rest anytime. Definitely fighting against it better than a certain UN member state too bordering Turkey (I'm being ashamed of Armenia here), but still.

EZLN may be in a better situation. Mostly because in Latin America "live and let live" seems to be not such an idealistic approach, since I'm confident there's a lot of force which could squash them.