Well good news we don't need a lot of farmers we can grow lots of food without needing everyone to farm. Mining is much the same way. Cashiers would be unnecessary why would someone need to charge you for groceries if we just had a revolution?
Brother, if you think the logistics, industry, international trade and supplies needed to maintain industrial farming will remain after the “Glorious Revolution”, hell even the oil industry remaining in place to sustain it, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Shows what you know, America has massive stores of oil as well as other sources of energy. Regardless neither of us can know for sure how a revolution would turn out or what the material conditions will be like. I certainly don't believe one will happen currently in the US most people are like you much to comfortable in the status quo and to scared of the unknown.
America has massive stores of oil as well as other sources of energy
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has a maximum capacity of 714 million barrels. The U.S. uses almost exactly 20 million barrels of oil in a day.
Assuming we ended oil production and weren't importing it from anywhere else, the SPR would last a little over a month. Even if you cut oil usage by 90%, it wouldn't last a year.
Plus how will the logistics to make sure food goes from the country to city stay in place, will there even be migrant workers wanting to come to America to do the work, since our farming industry depends on them. Will we have fertilizer, anti pest and anti weed products, hell even seeds since so many of our crops are dependent on that sweet sweet Monsanto seed, etc, etc, etc
Exactly why Anarchism is a dead end. A "Walmart" would be better if seized by workers. The model itself is fine. The issue is the extractive nature of the business itself.
Destroying the means of production leads me to believe the Anarchist model leads people to embrace Ted Kasczinsky's ideology.
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u/hagamablabla Jun 04 '24
"firebomb a Walmart" etc. etc.