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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do we change the social structure at this point?

Here's an idea that worked in the past!

[–] megahertz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we keep finding ourselves in another iteration of the problem, did it really work? There has to be a more permanent solution.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Care to explain the "another iteration of the problem"? Abolishing slavery ends slavery, abolishing serfdom ends serfdom, abolishing rent ends rent. The Venezuelan case is an example of the latter. You asked how to change the social structure, here's a tried and true method that has worked from Russia to China to Vietnam to Cuba. You're free to present your own with better track records.

[–] megahertz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see I was looking at the conversation from a wider perspective and likely misunderstood the context added by the image. I don't disagree with your comment "abolishing 'x' ends 'x'". However, abolishing any given inequity, one at a time, in one area at a time is not the progress I was speaking of when I asked how to change social structure. Before we can abolish anything, we need people who believe it should be abolished, and we need enough of them to institute change. My question was directed more toward the earlier steps: identifying necessary change and then creating/maintaining a movement which can enact that change.