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On finding a job. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I can't find a job.
Well I could but there doesn't seem to be any jobs that fit.
Or if there are I can't find them. (But I don't think so)

The biggest problem is that I live in estonia and it seems there really isn't a well-developed anarchist/socialist/syndicalist movement here. The IWW doesn't have a branch and searching online doesn't really yield any results (aside from a couple of socdem groups),

I don't know how to search for a job that isn't just doing menial labour for some company.

I would like to work for a global fully-remote anarchically managed tech syndicate. But I don't think those exist and I imagine starting one is incredibly difficult. (Well starting it wouldn’t be difficult, but finding people capable and willing to work for something like that, while getting enough income, is.)

At the end of the day the means dictate the ends. Looking for a job in a capitalist way is going to land you with a capitalist job. I need to look for a job in a anarchist/socialist/syndicalist way, but how do you do that in an environment where those ideas aren't widespread?

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I said absolutely nothing about patriotism. Patriotism in many cases is toxic to humanity and peace in general.

And an aggressor like Russia will roll over Europe if there is no military opposition regardless of the system in place. Better to have a military-industrial complex providing viable opposition than having entire nonmilitary populations being forcibly exterminated as Russian forces are wont to do.

I advocate dealing with the aggression first, and then figuring out an ideal system moving forward afterwards, rather than bikeshedding away any advantage that may currently exist.

TL;DR: Use the tools that you have right now, and figure out something better once you have the breathing room to do so. Because right now, Russia ain’t planning on providing Europe any breathing room. It would gladly retake all of Eastern Europe given half the chance.

[–] onoira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago

i see. so we must escalate the security dilemma and bolster the capitalist military to defeat the Oriental Hordes to protect our managers' very peaceloving and democratic ways of life. only once the capitalists have installed someone nicer to manage the Orient can we hope to return to begging the capitalists to relinquish their weapons and their power, of which they now have more of, and which many more people have been integrated into. in the meantime, leftists need to put their shit on hold. none of this will contribute to the rise of the far right or stoke xenophobic tendencies. i'm not a nationalist; joining the military is simply the forward-thinking thing to do. military service very famously attracts good people with good intentions. this is definitely not a right-wing position based in false consciousness and a Tom Clancy-esque view of geopolitics. this posturing has no relation to how we ended up in this situation. the fact that all of this benefits international capital is merely a coïncidence. mutually assured destruction means nothing to me.

with business going so well for the MIC, Gaza beach resorts should be open just in time for the postwar economy to swing back around! we could all use a little time in the sun after making everything worse.

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Use the tools that you have right now, and figure out something better once you have the breathing room to do so.

the military is not my/our tools. it's the state's tools.

our tools are being torn at to make way for a war economy, for a war that isn't ours.

and if you tell me you're not advocating for joining the military, then who does?