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(692 posts)Changing social conditions is not about YOU or what you believe. The oppressive and criminal relationship of Capitals domination over labor and the workers doesn't change regardless of one's belief or what one chooses to call themselves. Leftist politics is about power and resources and who controls what and why. Who has power and who has no power. "Human nature" arguments have always been the narrative of the ruling class and the gatekeepers of the status quo. The arguments are entirely unhistorical and a bunch of complete nonsense. Capitalism is not the preordained natural order of civilization, nor is it a by-product of humans in their natural state. In reality, it is the exact opposite. The ideas that some refer to as "scary socialism" were the principles of primitive human societies and tribes before recorded history and since the beginning of human existence.
Many will in fact blame anything and everything first before they blame capitalism and all it's insidious tentacles -of war, oppression, exploitation, institutionalized racism, genocide to name a few - as the fundamental problem. It is greed says the one, it's human nature says the other, it's overpopulation says another. To many, those billions of people living in abject poverty around the globe are expendable because it's "human nature." Capitalism can never provide an equitable distribution of production and resources in a way that takes care of the population as a whole and doesn't despoil and destroy everything around it as it does now. That is the bottom line and there is no factual narrative that proves otherwise as evidenced by the impoverishment and the death of millions on the ground due to capitalist social relations.