The World’s Most Harmful Species and How We Can Defend Against Them

1. Recognize and Openly Admit the Problem

   The overly competitive nature of capitalist-based economies is what causes people to be alienated both from themselves and from others, or the planet we live on.  Economy is not only about money and business.  Rather, economy is the way in which a society distributes the materials needed for survival.  In the U.S. and other westernized economies, a capitalist mode of production prevails where those with capital have the materials they need for survival.  Luckily, most people have capital, it’s just that most people’s capital is themselves (the idea that we have to sell our labor) while some people own the means of production as their capital (they buy the labor).  This is the problem.  The oppression, exploitation, and domination encouraged through our economy (capitalism) is the problem.  The first step to moving down a path to harmonious living with our planet is to recognize that capitalism and competition are the problems and openly admit this.

2. Organize

   Once we recognize and admit this as the main problem, we must work together in order to find solutions to this problem.  Karl Marx, among others, talked about the natural evolution of human social and economic systems.  He pointed out that the human-created capitalist economic system will evolve just as every other human-created economic system has done in the past.  Coming together with others who realize capitalism is the problem, we can look for signs of this ongoing evolution, the dialectic or the unfolding historical materialism as Marx might have written.  Marx represents ideas regarding one possible solution to the problem, that of the dialectic.  But, what about other solutions?  We must come together in groups both large and small in order to discuss and find these solutions.  Let us create our own councils (to replace city councils) that are based on finding solutions rather than creating capital for our city in order to fit into this problematic capitalist economy.

These two tips only serve as the starting point for the needed turn-around.  They’re really nothing new to those of us who have been reading and learning about social and economic change.  But for those of us who do not have time to sift through the mountains of reading material because we’re busy recuperating from the sale of our own labor, these two tips will be sufficient for defending ourselves against the most harmful species on the planet … humans.