Thread by @BlackSocialists

Many still refuse to interrogate what they consider the basics of “life” or “society” (re: “America,” capitalism, hierarchy, etc.), no matter what.

Because to go back to “Step One” (re-trace humanity’s “steps”) and interrogate feels like a lot of “work” with scary implications…

Why go explore “over there” if it’s just going to unearth and even delegitimize so much of what you’ve built your identity and life around?

Isn’t it easier and better to just hold on to the mythologies and facades, even as they’re unraveling and crumbling in our very hands?

No.

As a matter of fact, to try and hold on to those “integral and assumed things that never really did serve [you] all that well” is a futile attempt to prolong the inevitable: systems collapse.

Not only this, but it also leaves you unprepared for what is to come on the other side.

Assuming you can see the “writing is on the wall,” our argument on this reality is:

1) The thing you consider “work” with “scary” implications can and will be the most freeing shit of your life.

2) At the base level, the main solutions are not as complicated as you might think.

It’s a very old cliché, but:

There is no use in trying to run and hide from the truth.

Our organization is asking you (and many others) to confront it with us, with the assumption that you want a better life than what you have now.

With the assumption that you want to be free.

What is the truth?

Or some truths (plural)?

Or, at least, some of these “truths” that interrogate what many consider to be some “basics” of our lives and society?

• “America” is a failed project that never fully served a majority of the inhabitants of North America (including the settlers).

• Capitalism is a failed system that never fully served the majority anywhere.

• Nation-states cannot and will not serve/save us.

And a big one…

• History reveals humanity’s enormous capacity for different kinds of social organization (including radically cooperative and democratic kinds) and, more broadly, social self-determination (peep @davidwengrow’s recent book with @davidgraeber for more on this).

In other words…

We can go another way, and have gone other ways many other times throughout human history.

We don’t have to stay “stuck” under these systems of domination. We can and should do much better.

But that will take us all putting our heads together like never before.

So, solutions…

The thread below – which includes more threads that we’d hope you’d all explore – is a good start on what we feel are some solutions to the challenges that lie in front of us as a species.

In a very broad term, we’d call these “#DualPower” solutions…

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1269072449351618562?s=20&t=8YZkmsyTeNYNveJeXHRlpg

But to finish this current thread off, we figured we’d point to a concrete, living, breathing example of what we’re really talking about:

The MAREZ in Chiapas, Mexico.

Imagine what we could do here in North America with the collective resources we have.

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1348286330812461059?s=20&t=8YZkmsyTeNYNveJeXHRlpg

Is there really any question over what we should be doing right now (in the broadest sense)?

Once you’ve *really* accepted some of the “hardest” truths, and then dug into the “mess” to find solutions?

Not really…

When/if you really think about it.

#DualPower 🌿

PS: @SymbiosisRev is a broader network moving on all of this in North America (or at least trying to). And they need all different kinds of support.

For starters, folks are trying to get a new site up, so if you’re a dev with Three.js experience, tap in.

blacksocialists.us/contact