A few things that are accessible within the USA include:

  • Participating in mutual aid programs
  • Campaigning on the local level, including for positions like poll watchers
  • Making your voice heard in community events in general
  • Joining your local DSA, networking
  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I disagree, you’re ascribing values to structures that are agnostic towards those.

    It is not liberal to construct a market of Worker co-ops, but it is absolutely in line with Market Socialism.

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      8 months ago

      When I said capitalists there I meant liberal defenders of capitalism.

      A market economy of worker coops has private property, so can’t be socialist. Market socialism is a misnomer and unnecessarily associates with a label people already have preconceived notions about @asklemmy

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        8 months ago

        A market economy of Worker co-ops has full worker ownership of the Means of Production. This is the basis of Socialism, so it’s aptly named. It cannot be Capitalist, as it has no Capitalists. Calling it “private property” is technically correct but betrays the idea that it’s Capitalistic.

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          8 months ago

          Worker co-ops don’t necessarily have full worker ownership of the means of production because a worker coop can lease means of production from a third party. It is not socialist. Nor do I mean to suggest it is capitalist. It can’t be capitalism as it has no capitalists as you correctly point out. Since you recognize that it is technically correct to say a worker co-op market economy has private property, you recognize

          Capitalism ≠ private property @asklemmy

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            8 months ago

            So by your perspective, if the Workers co-ops cannot lease from a third party, would that be Socialist?

            Capitalism does not equal private property, but at the same time liberalism is about Capitalism and individual ownership of property.

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              8 months ago

              Perhaps, but there isn’t a good reason to place such a restriction on worker co-ops. Worker co-ops shouldn’t be forced to buy the entire thing when a segment of its services would do.

              Liberals as a group tend to support capitalism. Liberalism as a political philosophy can have implications that claimed adherents don’t endorse. After mapping out all the logical implications of liberal principles, it becomes clear that coherent liberalism is anti-capitalist @asklemmy