[green, speaking, looking smug]
Okay, hear me out, here’s the plan…
We go full apathy, basically we let capitalism fully spiral out into fascism. Once it’s done, people will rise up and the system will collapse under its own weight. From its ashes, with our help, a better society will rise. This is how we win.
[we now see that green is tied up in front of a bleak wall, along with a group of other people, being aimed at by a firing squad of characters in fascist uniforms]
[green, smiling] OK?
[blue, pissed] Dude…
For the same reason they’re happy to burn the only habitable planet humans will ever have: they’re going to play with fire in search of optimal profit, even to their own eventual detriment.
People act like raw, naked, decayed capitalism is a totally stable system where all actors work perfectly together to rationally suppress the proletariat in perpetuity. But it’s not that. Capital has accumulated to the point of a handful of individuals butting heads over all of the earth’s resources.
There’s no longer a cabal of dozens of cartels coordinating in abstract lock step. There’s like 10 dudes that can meet in a room. Applying dialect-materialism to that is using Newtonian physics on a quantum scale.
Petty grudges and irrational emotions take control at that scale. A few of them get the idea that they can eat the others by leveraging the proletariat and all bets are off.
Will it certainly happen? Not necessarily. But more individuals have deposed through creative leveraging of legal mechanisms than those spontaneously pulled from their beds and shot. There’s no reason to not be prepared if the opportunity presents itself.