A few things that are accessible within the USA include:

  • Participating in mutual aid programs
  • Campaigning on the local level, including for positions like poll watchers
  • Making your voice heard in community events in general
  • Joining your local DSA, networking
  • J Lou@mastodon.social
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    The normative basis of private property, which capitalists claim to adhere to, is people’s inalienable right to appropriate the positive and negative fruits of their labor. Capitalism routinely violates this principle in the employment contract. Satisfying the principles of private property would require that all firms be worker cooperatives. The principles of liberalism imply anti-capitalism. It is entirely compatible to be a liberal and an anti-capitalist @asklemmy

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      I disagree, you’re ascribing values to structures that are agnostic towards those.

      It is not liberal to construct a market of Worker co-ops, but it is absolutely in line with Market Socialism.

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        10 months ago

        When I said capitalists there I meant liberal defenders of capitalism.

        A market economy of worker coops has private property, so can’t be socialist. Market socialism is a misnomer and unnecessarily associates with a label people already have preconceived notions about @asklemmy

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          A market economy of Worker co-ops has full worker ownership of the Means of Production. This is the basis of Socialism, so it’s aptly named. It cannot be Capitalist, as it has no Capitalists. Calling it “private property” is technically correct but betrays the idea that it’s Capitalistic.

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            10 months ago

            Worker co-ops don’t necessarily have full worker ownership of the means of production because a worker coop can lease means of production from a third party. It is not socialist. Nor do I mean to suggest it is capitalist. It can’t be capitalism as it has no capitalists as you correctly point out. Since you recognize that it is technically correct to say a worker co-op market economy has private property, you recognize

            Capitalism ≠ private property @asklemmy

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              So by your perspective, if the Workers co-ops cannot lease from a third party, would that be Socialist?

              Capitalism does not equal private property, but at the same time liberalism is about Capitalism and individual ownership of property.