• nugmeister64@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        what else can we do in a country like this with the candidates and party system we have? it would be nice to have real elections and options.

    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Voting is important, I also like to think about other tangible ways to build power - like what is power? It’s being able to eat, having a place to live, having healthcare, saying what I want, associating with who I want, deciding how I spend my time.

      I think about how the Mondragon complex, probably the largest worker cooperative in the world, started in Franco’s Spain, and turned one of the poorest regions into one of the wealthiest.

      I’d like to think I would stay and work to gain more power for myself and my peers - I want to stay and join/start a worker cooperative. I want to see a massive ecosystem of worker owned enterprises, which will translate to tangible power. Getting organized means being better able to fight off the kind of oppression Trump promises.