[green, speaking, looking smug]
Okay, hear me out, here’s the plan…
We go full apathy, basically we let capitalism fully spiral out into fascism. Once it’s done, people will rise up and the system will collapse under its own weight. From its ashes, with our help, a better society will rise. This is how we win.
[we now see that green is tied up in front of a bleak wall, along with a group of other people, being aimed at by a firing squad of characters in fascist uniforms]
[green, smiling] OK?
[blue, pissed] Dude…
The Soviets were shit on environmentalism for a long time. We didn’t see a serious environmental movement in China until the early 2000s. We’ve never really seen one in the USSR, prior to its collapse.
The alternative to Capitalism is not necessarily whatever the fuck the Soviets’ idea of Communism was.
“Capitalism caused all these ecological problems”
“Okay what about the same problems occurring outside of a capitalist framework”
“Those don’t count”
Shrug
You’ve got to move beyond the ideological and address the material. Ecological harm isn’t predicated on privatized profit.
“I’m sick, my covid test is positive. I’m staying at home.”
“Actually, noro virus has similar symptoms. The problem isn’t covid.”
Shrug
“COVID is the problem”
“I’ve got norovirus”
“That doesn’t matter”
More like “I had norovirus a month ago but now I’ve got covid.” The Soviet Union doesn’t matter because it doesn’t exist anymore and China is a capitalist country for a while now. The problem is capitalism because it’s the world system now. There are countless counter examples so the problem isn’t humanity. Bolshevism isn’t a counter examples (because it wasn’t any better) but neither is it the problem because it doesn’t exist anymore. Neither is the Roman Empire.
True. That’s not what I had in mind when I talked about alternatives.