Small communities don't work for corporations. Are you seriously knocking legitimate aspirations to disengage from the global capitalist system, on the grounds that this makes us better off than those in endentured servitude to corporations? We ain't stopping anyone following suit, so how is that elitist? Our labour is a resource for their agendas. You want to give them that resource under more favourable conditions. We advocate denying them it's use, and using it for ourselves.
If you change it from within, you sow the seeds of its sucessor at the same time. Revolutions revolve, and you find yourself back where we started. We have a viable defence against globalisation and you object because you want to re-negotiate the conditions of everyone's slavery !!!
What you describe is an urban nightmare. I don't care how the machine is run. If it's running still, we are no better off. You are talking about wrestling the driver from the controls, even though he's heavily armed. I'm talking about slipping out of the emergency exit when we can safely do so, and walking. I may be stranded on the highway, but I'm alive, and responsibl;e for my own wellbeing. Your plan almost certainly leads to a hideous bus crash. You are willing to endanger others lives in a wreckless move, while ignoring the reasoned objections of others.
Chances are, that if your plan suceeded, someone like you you would then get in the driver seat, do a U turn, and start driving as eraticly as the previous guy.
If capitalism is structured through labour, then see to the needs of your community, and let the lack of our labour wither it on the vine. Why organise labour? For who's benefit? You're talking about organising labour to defeat capitalism, then what? Put us all to work for some other system? How about leaving us to make our own decisions about what's the best use of our labour. We'd all come to the obvious conclusion that it's best spent here in our communities.
Of course, if the revolutionary anarcho-comunist revolutionary council decide we need arms factories and armies to defeat the last vestiges of capitalism, then we'll all be organised thusly. (For the greater good brother.)
We want out. Isn't THAT what it's all about? If you want to radically re-arrange the deckchairs, go ahead, but don't expect us to sit in them.
No. He's criticised Islamic fundamentalism. Problem?
We tore apart other peoples' bullshit theories with coherent arguments. Oh no! Really we should respect each others opinions, no matter how much they contradict ours, and learn to love one another.
Wipe away some of the rabid foam and actually look at what you're saying.
Ask the average working person what has more relevence to their life: Struggles to achieve better pay, better conditions at work, a fairer system of benefit provision and ultimately managing production for need rather than profit OR chaining yourself to trees, setting up communes abandoned manor houses and bleating on about how CCTV cameras are "the secret state, man"...
... if you ever actually meet a member of the working class, that is
Well if you want to build a campaign on good intentions and recycled toilet paper, good luck. The rest of us will continue to make some use out of the capitalist system in order to build the fight against it. And who said anything about communes? That's your department.
Exactly, so why bother? Actually it's not about the majority of people not believing in them (although they're right not to). It's because you can't build a post capitalist society by setting up little idealised spaces outside of capitalism. The truth is, to most of us your communes and "free spaces" just come across as elitist, alienating and impractical. The only way you can overturn the capitalist economic system is from within. The oppresion of the capitalist system is structured around labour - so it is only through labour that it can be defeated.