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United States

CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

Lay-Person Tasks

If you use a bank, move your money to a credit union instead.
It's an action task, but I heavily encourage signing the general strike card. All action tasks involve risk that lay-person tasks don't, so keep that in mind whether you decide to accept the risk or not.

Informational Resources

This is a Dungeons and Dragons game that uses communist strategies. https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/447323
Capitalism articles from the anarchist library. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/capitalism
Class struggle articles from the anarchist library. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/class-struggle
Class war articles from the anarchist library. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/class-war
https://tbloc.comrades.sbs/ The Big List of Communism (TBLOC) is a web directory containing most communist websites on the net. Submit a website today!
Marxist Internet Archive, online library https://www.marxists.org/

Action Tasks

Sign your strike card https://generalstrikeus.com/
Become an investigative journalist and expose billionaires. You don’t even need to be part of an organization or have a degree- there’s many independent journalists who start out on social media after learning some basic skills online, and most of the information you need for a story can be found online if you have the patience to search for it. Make sure to learn about media law and digital safety specifically for journalists.
Here’s a story of how a billionaire lost wealth after he was exposed by a group of journalists for running a ponzi scheme. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRWqnPvm/

Books

See more at: https://hilaryagro.com/resources/

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Freedom is a Constant Struggle – Angela Davis
Inventing Reality – Michael Parenti
A People’s Guide to Capitalism – Hadas Thier
Fisher, Mark. 2009. Capitalist Realism. Winchester, UK: Zero Books.
Scott, James C. 1990. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Davis, Angela. Women, Race, & Class
Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine
Adrienne Maree Brown (2019). Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Schulman, Sarah. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Capital – Karl Marx
The State and Revolution – Vladimir Lenin
How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century – Erik Olin Wright
Why socialism? Albert Einstein Audiobook https://youtu.be/YMKXVWpADFk
Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread (Full Audiobook) https://youtu.be/k-6oi_uyi9Y

Systems

Feedback Loops

Goals

Walmart would open a store, have low prices that would attract people, drive small businesses into bankruptcy, then raise their prices or even close to reduce expenses and make people drive to a farther Walmart. This hit small towns the worst (imagine pretty much all rural america), and completely destroyed them. Due to poverty, a significant portion of people are forced to go to stores that have low prices.
In capitalism, people think about money as currency. But abuse and control is its own currency, and it causes poverty. https://radpride.wixsite.com/start-posting/post/the-goal-of-capitalism-is-profit-but-abuse-is-why-we-re-poor

POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Paradigms This list is from the All Together Now project on sdgwiki. Some of it is for other categories but Ill keep it here for now. Ideas

Political Ideologies:

Voting Systems:

Capitalist Ideaologies:

Philosophies & Causes:

Anarchist Tendencies:

Rules

Prosecute Price Gouging. Price gouging is raising prices during an emergency.
Ban Greedflation. Greedflation is like price gouging, but it doesn’t happen during an emergency, the price rises gradually.
Ban Artificial Shortages
Tax the rich. The highest marginal income tax rate at the federal level reached 94% in 1945, aimed at limiting after-tax income. It declined to 70% before Ronald Reagan lowered it further in the 1980s.
Limit the maximum amount of money a person can have. A maximum wage was proposed during WWII in the Revenue Act of 1942, capping top salaries at 5,000 after taxes, but it was rejected by Congress.
Limit the ratio of profit a person can make in comparison to their employees. The Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act bill, if passed, would penalize companies for ratios over 100:1 by raising corporate taxes. But it has not passed Congress.
Make the minimum wage the living wage, recalculate every six months. Possibly don’t make the minimum wage a number.
The Raise the Wage Act bill aims to gradually increase the federal minimum to 5 per hour by 2025, but it has not passed Congress yet.
Paycheck Fairness Act
https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/economic-justice/fair-pay/the-paycheck-fairness-act.pdf ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Fairness_Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7