“People” are not the problem. That’s Malthusian garbage. Capitalism is the problem.

Human beings use complex language and are capable of learning and developing culture.

Capitalism is a system that teaches and enforces greed, competition and exploitation. Capitalism is a system that demands infinite growth for the sake of growth. It’s nonsensical, and obvious that such a system leads to over-exploitation and collapse. We are currently the way we are because we’ve been forced to under this system.

We are capable of change, and learning to build communities and societies based on mutual aid, cooperation, and living in harmony with the world we live in.

If we start to build such communities we will learn to cooperate just as the capitalist system has taught us to be greedy and exploit each other for fear of ending up without the means to house and feed ourselves.

Why wouldn’t communism lead to cancer like growth? Because the objective isn’t endless expansion to make some imaginary line go up and hand over all the wealth to a small number of people. It’s to manage our world based on good science and achieving objectives that lead to a sustainable world in which all people’s basic needs are met.

There are countless ways of building communism, and all of them require constant work. And yes it’s true that if implemented in an authoritarian manner it would lead to a bad outcome (still not as bad as our certain extinction under any capitalist system). Anarchism (and there are many schools of thought within anarchism) gives us many tools to build communism in a libertarian manner where we keep each other in check, ensuring that no one person gains power over others.

Look at Rojava, revolutionary Catalonia, the Ukrainian Free Territory, the Shinmin Autonomous Region. These societies can work, expanded, and built upon if given half a chance.

No shit. That’s why it’s a constant ongoing effort to build communism. The current system is leading us to certain annihilation.

No. The goal of capitalism is to turn all things into commodities to be bought and sold. It has the growth pattern of cancer. Communism is a moneyless, stateless, classless society where would be free to focus on human-centred objectives like feeding and housing all people, making our environment sustainable, pursuing scientific and academic goals without need for a profit to be generated just for the sake of endless commodification.

Capitalism consumes everything.

Capitalism is literally a pyramid scam.

Pure ideology (liberalism).

To be “on the left” at minimum you need to be totally opposed to the capitalist system.

From there, there are many ideologies to choose from whether authoritarian (like Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, Stalinism, etc.) or anti-authoritarian: mutualism, communalism, one of the many strains of anarchism, etc.

Also if you’re authoritarian I’d say it’s questionable whether you’re still on the left.

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Nice try, but I have immunity dog saved on my computer.

I read “I’m not part of the gay community” and I knew exactly what I would read next, just as I’ve read 1000 times before.

I’m so tired of reading this kind of drivel, taking the time to lay out all the history and facts, only to have it fall on deaf ears.

If you actually cared you’d do some research before posting.

True. There are also Israeli military bots, and Russian military bots, and Chinese military bots.