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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)is that system based on cancerous growth can continue indefinitely. As we see everywhere, the system has now nothing more to offer but more robbery, race to the bottom, austerity, riot cops and police state control. And people everywhere are resisting and fighting back.
You are correct about national scale as the system is global and so is the revolutionary process against it. The process takes many forms on national and local levels as expected under the maxim of "think global act local". OWS was inspired by and learning from many experiences in many places, and on it's turn the Occupy! meme and tactic also spread globally.
"Working for money" is primarily a psychological issue. Most of us are made dependent from the ruling monetary system, but much fewer work or want to work just for money as primary motivator. People do things they like to do and consider important enough to do, with or without money.
You live in America, which is socio-psychologically probably the most monetized current culture there is, and that can affect your perceptions and thoughts about people in general and what motivates and drives them. But we know from many experiences from Russia to Argentina etc. that when the monetary system collapses and people are not being paid, they don't stop working and doing things they consider important for the well being of community. Would you? How important is your job for the community, would you keep working if you wouldn't get payed?