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Exactly. Capitalism is an extremely obsolete and outdate mode of production. Why? Because: A) Relies on the management scarcity; 2) Is essentially anti-democratic. If democracy is the best mode of government, and economic production impacts government, why the hell shouldn't we extend democracy to economic production?

"[C]apital cannot be trusted to resolve the climate crisis. As long as capital controls investment and production, we are careening toward a very bleak future indeed. It’s also not only energy where this problem arises. The green transition requires many other investments: we need to expand public transport, insulate buildings, develop more efficient technologies, regenerate ecosystems, and implement ecological farming methods. These are essential to the transition, and they are simple to do, but capital does not invest in such activities because they are not sufficiently profitable. Under capitalism, we suffer critical shortages of existentially necessary things that could otherwise easily be delivered.

Furthermore, we know that to meet the Paris Agreement goals, high-income countries must reduce total energy use. Some of this can be achieved through efficiency improvements, yes — and we need more investment in this area. Yet it also requires scaling down damaging and unnecessary forms of production — not just fossil fuels, but also things like SUVs, private jets, mansions, fast fashion, industrial beef, advertising, and the practice of planned obsolescence. Scientists have made it clear that if we want to achieve sufficiently rapid decarbonisation, this must be on the table.

This approach can have powerful benefits. Not only does it reduce energy use and make decarbonisation easier to achieve, it also liberates productive capacities — labour and factories — which can be remobilised to accelerate socially and ecologically necessary production."
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Today in Labor History September 1, 1880: The utopian communistic Oneida Community ended after 32 years. The Community was founded by John Humphrey Noyes and his followers in 1848 near Oneida, New York. They believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, allowing them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves. The Community practiced communalism (holding all property and possessions in common). They also practiced complex marriage, where 3 or more people could enter into the same marriage, and male sexual continence, where the male’s goal was to not ejaculate during sex. They were also one of the first groups in the U.S. to practice mutual criticism, to root out bad characteristics in people, something adopted by many later cults, and even by Cesar Chavez and the UFW under his leadership.

The Oneida Community has been portrayed in numerous works of fiction such as “Silken Strands,” by Rebecca May Hope (2019). “Assassination Vacation,” by Sarah Vowell (2005) and “Pagan House,” by David Flusfeder (2007).

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