The essence of John Spritzler’s work is to show how the billionaire class uses divide and conquer to stop egalitarian possibilities.
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Reflection:
The essence of John Spritzler’s work is to make clear how the billionaire class uses divide and conquer strategy to keep the working classes (the have-nots) and the middle and upper classes, haves, but who are not billionaire class, divided. His core point, based on his lived experience, is that the vast majority of people would like to remove the rich from power so we could have real and not fake democracy and achieve a society where there is no rich and no poor. He emphasizes that what holds back the liberation movement, is that the majority of people don’t know they are not alone in their thinking, that others agree with the idea of removing the rich from power. So, to build a movement we need to present the proposition, and ask people if they agree with it, and then invite them to participate in a liberation program.
The reasons anyone may have for removing the rich from power are largely irrelevant to the deeper issue that the majority need to know they are not alone in their desire to remove the rich from power; then the majority can unite to make an egalitarian society.
What distinguishes the Green Liberty sensibility relative to the proposition that we the people remove the rich from power is that green liberty is impelled by indignation at the state crimes, and from this reckoning, make the case against the plutocracy remaining in power. They have been so irresponsible and criminal that they must step down, or be removed from power by a mass movement of indignant citizens.
However, John says that the task of explaining the state crimes becomes an impediment to building the movement, given that people are immediately ready to accept the proposition to remove the rich from power based on actual lived experience around issues like the need for housing, healthcare, education, and a healthy environment. See essay on this theme here.
Green Liberty is a realm of thought where truth politics meets liberation theory. We consider broadly what ails society and accept the essential class nature of many of our problems, but the emergency of a captured government by a globalist cartel, and the threat of a dystopian, techno-totalitarian future now eclipses problems around the rising food prices, cost of housing and chance of being medically bankrupted, among other struggles.
A liberation coalition is about building unity on the proposition that the global elites have got to go. But only a mass movement held together by a shared ambition, and confidence in the people to democratically pursue our destiny, only then can we hope to remove the rich from power. Green Liberty argues that demanding justice for state crimes builds confidence, and produces a militancy in the people to get at the root of our problem: domination by a plutocratic oligarchic deep state.
Some people react negatively to the proposition to remove the rich from power because they fear that the egalitarian liberation program would be unjust to those who have risen in society through hard work. Green Liberty accepts the proposition about removing the rich from power broadly, but is agnostic on what the range of wealth disparity would be, or could be, in what the people would consider a fair society. However, on issues of state crimes, those involved among the living should be prosecuted by state and federal authorities.
I personally have no problem saying that there will be rich people in an egalitarian society, but would categorically say, there will be no poor, and there will not be a billionaire, predator class that operates a deep state in secret, and that poisons the planet with toxins, and treats the masses of people like dirt.
To avoid a technocratic dystopian fate, we must claim our democratic destiny by building a liberation coalition that would fight and plan for a better society, free from the plutocrats.