Posted on 01/04/2014 10:06:49 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
Deep Green Resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind. As an analysis, it reveals civilization as the institution that is destroying life on Earth. As a strategy, it offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction. As an organization, Deep Green Resistance is implementing that strategy.
The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. This is a vast undertaking but it needs to be said: it can be done. Industrial civilization can be stopped.
DGR is an aboveground organization that uses direct action in the fight to save our planet. We also argue for the necessity of an underground that can target the strategic infrastructure of industrialization. But these actions alone are never a sufficient strategy for achieving a just outcome. Any strategy aiming for a livable future must include a call to build direct democracies based on human rights and sustainable material cultures.
I think most people should have to live with their stupidity(poor choices). Some people need, and deserve, our help. Mentally retarded, insane, etc.
One notable group in the DGR is the The Direct Democracy Committee, which, in its own words, works to promote community self-determination and to shift institutional power.
In fact, the country already has such committees in most neighborhoods. They carve out and protect their community boundaries and identify themselves by such names as Bloods, Crips, Nortenos, MS-13, and so on.
You are lost in your erudition. Capitalism does not create monopoly. Statism creates monopoly. Statism IS monopoly. Free Enterprise is not a perfect system. It is just better than all alternatives.
> “What happens once the poor rob the rich and become the rich. Does the cycle start over again?...: )”
Nope. The poor stay poor and no longer have the rich to hate on, sponge off of. Also, no one to employ them. So, in the end, the poor become destitute and ruined, along with their victims.
I think that answer is correct because the new rich (the old poor) didn’t have the discipline, fortitude, and hard work ethic it took to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps in the first place and fom their own buiness. They’d just become unproductive and lazy until their money ran out then expect more handouts.
There are seven of videos in all. In the first five a woman named Lierre Keith gives the history of ... of ... well, I'm not sure of what, but a lot of history, in any event. This leads up to stating that violence is called for, and now is the time for it to begin. For the final two videos, a young man takes over and underscores that position, replete with occupied France's path to resistance under Nazi Germany in the '40s.
They are literally talking about taking the human population of the earth back to where it was in the 1700's.
An interesting way to kill a winter afternoon.
Watching the first minute of the video made it clear that this group has not been required to listen to any voices but their own. They are not in the market place of ideas. They are an isolated fringe listening only to their own voices. Their undertstanding of reality is myopic. Their attitude is dismissive of any and all variations to their own theme. A worthless bunch of presumptuous butt heads.
>>You are lost in your erudition. Capitalism does not create monopoly. Statism creates monopoly. Statism IS monopoly. Free Enterprise is not a perfect system. It is just better than all alternatives.
I say tomato, you say tomahto. I’m talking about ethics, something in short supply on Wall St. The current economic cesspool was created when a clot of young Turks on Wall St. “discovered” a way to bundle crap loans with enough good loans to make the package smell nice and then get the mess insured by AIG by a bit of mental chicanery in that they assumed that if the risk was spread out the risk was lowered. Lowered enough to merit insuring and hence an AAA rating. They spread the risk by selling this pile of offal to small countries around the world. That is why the meltdown was global. Iceland was the only country to jail the bankers who bought into the con. They all should be stood before a wall, no blindfold, no cigarette. If that’s statism, I’ll eat my derivatives portfolio.
It is statism by virtue of state encouragement and support of the scam. It could not have happened without government involvement at the most insidious level. Gov was not functioning as a watchdog but as a fellow con.
I do not deny there is corruption in the private sector. When there is collusion by the government it becomes something far worse.
A culture of corruption cannot gain a foothold in industry unless government is setting the standard. When government is guided by corruption honest business cannot easily survive.
BTW I say little red fruits from a toxic vine. What could go wrong?
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