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Global networks of worker self-owned worker self-managed workplace is the #LibertarianSocialist ideal. It's a better system than capitalism. It's already up and running. For examples, see:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

It works. It's scalable. Member coops range in size from a tiny pizza joint to Mondragon. Mondragon is a multi-million dollar, multi-national concern. It isn't perfect (yet) but it's constantly evolving, and has already established proof of concept. Cooperative economics can not just work, but thrive.

@cferdinandi @libramoon @gerrymcgovern

(1.) #Mondragon is a multi-million dollar, multi-national concern. So, yeah, it *is* scalable.

(2.) There is no way we can rip the rug out from under capitalism short of a permanent #GeneralStrike, and even that needs a what comes next strategy. But we can make capitalism irrelevant by building the #LibertarianSocialist alternative to the point that everyone's needs are met. Then capitalism will collapse under it's own weight.

New instance, new #introduction. Edit: I have supplemented this introduction with replies to this post.

I see this instance has a *nice* *long* character limit for posts.

I have a Ph.D. in Human Science (2016, Saybrook University), which is about the experience of being human in social contexts. It is the mother of the social sciences but is now, at least in the English speaking world, and at least as far as I can tell, a dead field.

I studied #conservatism for my #dissertation. And yes, the #Democrats are far too #conservative for me.

Once upon a time, a very, very long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a computer programmer. It was the wrong career choice.

I am a #vegan #LibertarianSocialist (recovering #anarchist) mostly from the #SanFrancisco #BayArea in #California, presently residing in #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania, hoping to move to #erie

In #kyriarchy, I mostly focus on #classism and #ageism, but since arriving in Pittsburgh, have been confronted with blatant #racism (and yes, many white people here do see it). But #SocialJustice has to be for everybody; to focus on any one identity, to the exclusion of others, is nothing more than to elevate that identity over that of the predominantly wealthy white males who are now in charge.

I oppose all #imperialism and #SettlerColonialism, not just U.S. and NATO imperialism and settler-colonialism. Having lived on the underbelly of #capitalism most of my life, I am #anticapitalist and ferociously opposed to #neoliberalism. I oppose physical and structural violence.

Human beings have #HumanRights. These rights are not constrained by their governments' failures to ratify certain human rights treaties.

#Borders exist to mark off territory controlled by elites whose competition accounts for most if not all wars and to deny human beings on the "wrong" side of an arbitrary line rights and privileges available on the "right" side. This cannot be justified ethically. I am hostile to #xenophobia

Finally, I am pessimistic about the future of humanity. #COVID19 and the #ClimateCrisis demonstrate our unfitness for survival.

When I was younger I was in #StudentsForLiberty as a #LibertarianSocialist and the group use to make fun of orgs like #TPUSA, but I guess they're caving too much to the right now, makes me a bit annoyed to have even had my name attached to it. Great irony that as I distanced myself, so did the rest of the Left leaning folks in the org to where I guess there wasn't anyone left to fight back.