Not with fire and torches. It’s time to accept what we already know deep down: this system is broken beyond repair. No amount of voting, begging, or incremental reform is going to fix the rotting corpse of capitalism. We’re not dealing with a system that needs tweaks. We’re dealing with a system that feeds on exploitation, shits out injustice, and hands us a smiley face sticker for surviving another day under it.
We keep getting told we just need to be patient. That change is slow. That “the adults are in charge.” Meanwhile, the planet’s boiling, wages are stagnant, housing is a scam, billionaires are playing god, and the police still treat poor people like target practice.
How much more do we need to see before we admit this isn’t a glitch … it’s the design?
We don’t need to fix the system. We need to replace it. All of it. The politics, the economy, the structures that define who gets to live with dignity and who gets ground into dust. We’ve spent decades duct-taping injustice and calling it progress. That era’s over. It’s time for a clean break.
We need to start over. From scratch. Build something that works for everyone.
That means no more letting the wealthy write the rules. No more pretending corporations are people. No more parties that pretend to fight each other while feasting at the same donor buffet. No more bootlicking billionaires like they’re gods just because they hoarded enough money to make themselves unaccountable.
Let’s stop asking how we can work within the system. Start asking how we can undermine it. How can we hack it, sabotage it, expose it, and ultimately make it irrelevant.
It’s not radical to want food, housing, healthcare, and freedom. What’s radical is tolerating a system that denies those things in the name of “freedom.” What’s radical is watching the wealthy hoard enough money to end world hunger while telling the rest of us to work harder.
We are not obligated to keep this going. We don’t owe this system our loyalty. The people in power want us to believe we’re powerless without them. But the truth is that they’re nothing without us.
It’s time to organize. To disrupt. To create parallel systems. Mutual aid, worker co-ops, community defense, direct action, cyber sabotage, mass noncompliance — whatever it takes to grind the gears and flip the switch.
Overthrow doesn’t have to look like a revolution with marching bands and guillotines. (Though … you never know.) It can look like refusing to play along. It can look like walking away from the scripts they hand us and writing something new.
This isn’t a call to chaos. It’s a call to clarity. The future is not going to be handed to us — we have to take it.
Tear it down. Start over. Let’s build something worth living in.
Sisyphus Shrugged 
I’ve often wondered what it would actually take to effect change, meaningful, actual change. The mechanism of removing the current system don’t really bother me – you can’t make an omelette – right? Anyway the problem is that when there is radical change quite often no one has thought out what to do next. Ingrained, rotten systems like we have, I suspect, will swing back into place only through desperation and habit, humans have no capacity for putting up with hard work if they don’t see payola right away. I’m thinking of the archaist revolution in Spain, which lead right to dictatorship and more of the same. The communist/socialist states – same oligarchy or worse. I’m not implying that those were proper communist or socialist states, however given what they were preceded by I can’t see that Stalin was much worse than the Czars?
Take ObamaCares® for example – nice guy, mild mannered, promised change delivered a majority to the republicans. I’ve read that that punch in the guts lead to Trump and ok makes sense people want actual change and change things did. How do we stop people from falling for liberal lightweights and neo-fascists?
There are more than enough intelligent people who could develop a system that doesn’t feed off misery like we have now. Everything is so twee now, imagine thinking Biden or Clinton could actually make things better? It’s the same everywhere as far as I can tell, we just had the conservatives annihilated but will the liberals actually do the job? I doubt it. I’d like to see all of it wiped clean and something intelligent, decisive, targeted and that actually works, we have zero time to fuck around now.
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Totally with you on the fear of collapse leading right back into the same rot. That’s the trap — desperation breeds nostalgia, and nostalgia resurrects old monsters with new branding. Fascism thrives on that cycle: offer “order” in the ashes of failed reform and sell it as salvation.
That’s why burn-it-down energy has to come with build-it-up clarity. Not blueprints for utopia — we don’t need another doctrine. But networks. Practices. Parallel systems that already exist in embryo: mutual aid, tenant unions, worker co-ops, tech collectives, community defense, radical education, all the little experiments that prove people can take care of each other without bosses or bureaucrats. They’re not perfect, but they’re proof of concept.
The danger isn’t in radical change — it’s in power vacuums that get filled by the same class of vultures. We have to be just as serious about power as the oligarchs are. That doesn’t mean centralizing it. It means spreading it. Localizing it. Decentralizing it. Putting power where people live, not where they vote every 4 years.You’re right: people don’t stick with hard work if there’s no payoff. So the trick is to stop promising distant utopias and start delivering small wins. Food on the table. Rent strikes that work. Shared childcare. Emergency clinics. We’re not selling a dream — we’re proving an alternative.
And yeah, Biden, Clinton, Obama — they weren’t even speed bumps. Just slightly different suits guarding the same machinery. We can’t “stop” people from falling for liberalism or fascism — but we can out-organize both by making life under our alternative actually better. The system doesn’t fall when it’s attacked. It falls when enough people stop needing it.
Let’s not just rage at the system. Let’s make it obsolete.
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