As oil and gas giants profit, they push the blame onto us. It’s time to take our power back.
We don’t need more guilt. We need more power. We need bold, collective action, not individual blame.
As oil and gas giants profit, they push the blame onto us. It’s time to take our power back.
We don’t need more guilt. We need more power. We need bold, collective action, not individual blame.
And by “Europe” you mean “the UK”? Because that may be relevant.
But in any case, then I’m trying to explain the wrong thing to the wrong person. Whether you look at this like an American or not, you’re not one. You may or may not have noticed the differences I’m talking about, but you’re not part of them.
You’re just a performatively anti-system European who is conflating the current system with capitalism. Libertarian, I presume from your example (in the proper use of the word, as opposed to how Americans use it).
That’s not the American way of looking at it I’m calling out in the article. The American way of looking at it is asking people to organize not because they’re a countercultural movement, but because they see individual action repeated over many individuals as how collective action works. They may or may not be seeking a change of system or regime, but they see political action as something individuals do by themselves to nudge the government leviathan around.
This lady isn’t saying organize the way you think about organizing as a leftie libertarian. It’s not committees and assemblies and worker self-governance. It’s bourgeois liberals complaining to the manager, to which they are entitled as paying customers, in enough bulk to force a specific change. Different things altogether.