I’m not a big fan of the rhetorical framing of “seizing the means of production” or redistributing wealth from capitalists, both because that’s not how these systems actually function and because it provides capitalists with an ideological boogeyman. “They’re going to steal your PlayStation!”
No. We don’t have to seize a single thing. Nothing has to be stolen or taken. If you stopped paying your landlord rent, if the cops stopped enforcing the landlord’s claim, the landlord will have lost nothing but a rentier claim to your labor. You don’t “seize” your own home; your landlord has not lost something they weren’t even using in the first place.
Imagine a medieval feudal manor. The serfs farm it; the lord steals part of their harvest and their labor at sword-point.
One day, the peasants get together and refuse to hand over any more grain or labor. They’re just going to continue farming it like they always have. The lord is free to join them as a peasant, farming the land alongside them, but can no longer live off their surplus.
Nothing has been seized from the lord. Nothing was taken away. The lord can still live on and work at the manor, just like anyone else. No one has moved; no one’s access has been altered.
All that changed was that the lord had to get a job.
I don't know who needs to hear this but I guess everyone pre-2022 let their brains fall out: ariadne @ treehouse . systems (and the entire fucking instance), aka kaniini, is a fashy piece of shit who routinely makes up entire histories about people to try to get them removed from communities.
They harassed me for years. Made up a whole story about how we were friends when I've never known or met them to try to convince people of mental diagnoses I don't have.
This person is dangerous.
Germans are so environment conscious that they put CO2 into water and drink it away!