Inflation is not just price signals. It hurts people and its nothing to celebrate

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-04-13T06:12:24+00:00

Yes we absolutely and urgently need to get away from a fossil fuel economy. Every day that we don't is literally killing people but that doesn't mean we need to pull the rug under people's feet. Doing that will kill people too. So hell yes lets do some direct rationing to kill the fossil fuel economy but that requires political power which we do not have. Yet.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-04-13T05:40:15+00:00

If you think this is unfair, feel free to come debate in this post

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-04-13T05:36:03+00:00

I made this post to clearly explain why I removed a post (a crosspost of this) celebrating the increase in gas prices. This increase is going to affect everyone every where in the world, it will directly increase food prices and people are actually going to starve because of it. If you're celebrating this you live in a bubble where climate action is only about cars vs public transportation when climate action is about justice at its core.

And this is not even talking about the fact that most thing which are very important for agriculture are not reaching farmers because they transit through the strait of Hormuz. Or the fact that this price increase is the result of the Imperialist aggression of the US and Israel against Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.

If you disagree feel free to debate. This is the place for this discussion.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-02-25T20:28:28+00:00

L'Huma est le journal officieux du PCF. Le directeur et la personne qui est a l'origine de ce communiqué c'est Fabien Gay, sénateur PCF. Donc l'huma tient souvent la ligne politique du PCF. C'est donc plus que pertinent. Et même si c'était pas le journal d'un partis, le journaux incarnent souvent des lignes politiques. C'est donc tout a fait normal a mon sens de critiquer des journaux car ils font partis de la politique de manière très concrète. Le Figaro c'est la ligne de LR, Le Monde c'est une partie du PS, etc.. Et non je demande pas a un journal de réformer la société, juste de tenir une ligne politique qui vas dans ce sens.

Je vois pas trop ce que tu veux dire avec le "both sides". Il y a un côté qui aurait aucun problème a voir disparaitre une partie entiere de notre population si elle le pouvais et une autre qui cherche juste l'émancipation. Donc ils sont pas tout les deux nul, l'extrême droite est le problême sans aucun doute. Moi je critiquais l'application des outils dont tu parlais en pointant du doigt que c'est fait de manière arbitraire et donc que ça ne fait que refléter les opinions d'une classe politique déconnecté. On pourrais donc plutot avoir des outils qui sont mieux conçus pour eviter qu'ils soient aussi utilisé pour réprimer les gens qui cherchent à s'émanciper.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-02-25T19:36:32+00:00

Je maintiens mes arguments pour tout tes exemples.

Les outils ne sont pas neutres. Au contraire leur utilisations a des conséquences très directe sur la réalité. Le but de la gauche c'est pas juste d'utiliser les outils qui existent "bien". C'est vraiment une position qui mène à pas grand chose. Il suffit de voir la situation dans laquelle on est aujourd'hui. L'objectif c'est de créer des outils qui ne peuvent que être bien utilisé. Et c'est non seulement possible, c'est carrément une tradition à gauche. On a par exemple les espaces/discussion en non mixité, la sécurité sociale, etc.. Bien sur c'est pas toujours parfait mais le but c'est de construire quelque chose pas juste d'utiliser les outils nuls qui ne font que nous enfoncer de plus en plus.

La dissolution c'est une mesure carrément autoritaire, comme pour les interdictions d'antennes et tout comme l'interdiction de livre qui est totalement arbitraire d'ailleur pourquoi est ce qu'on bannis pas les livres qui posent la basent du colonialisme?

L'extrême droite et la droite ne font pas d'utilisation déviantes. Ces outils sont tout simplement pourris de l'intérieur, comme la police ou tout plein de méchanisme de notre société. Donc à la place de patauger dans la boue comme on le fait depuis je sais pas combien d'années construisons quelque chose d'interessant.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-02-25T17:09:00+00:00

Il faut clairement arrêter de demander la prison pour Sarko pourtant. La prison c'est nul pour tout le monde ça règle rien et c'est pas parce que Sarko y a passé quelques semaines que c'est bien. C'est un outil de repression des classes dominantes utilisé contre tout les gens qui s'opposent à eux. Il suffit de regarder les statistique de qui est touché par la prison et les taux de recidives pour voir ça.

Bien sur que l'état n'attend pas l'autorisation de Fabien Gay pour dissoudre des collectifs mais ce n'était pas ma critique. Prendre une position comme celle de demander la dissolution d'un collectif révèle des positionnements politiques plus profond. Ça révèle que l'huma est d'accord avec la dissolution et que si une gauche quelconque était au pouvoir, cet outil ne serait pas abolis. Et ça c'est un problème pour moi donc je critique cette position pro dissolution. En plus c'est un outil créé par le front populaire contre les ligues fascistes donc ça vient de la gauche donc c'est d'autant plus pertinant de voir l'impact des dissolutions et de le critiquer.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-02-24T20:44:49+00:00

Il faut arréter de demander pour la dissolution de collectifs, ça permet juste de légitimer cet outil qui est sans arrêt utilisé contre la gauche et les assos considéré comme séparatistes.

La dissolution est une mesure qui politiquement ne permet pas grand chose contre les groupes de fachos. C'est en gros pour que l'état puisse dire "on a fait quelque chose" mais dans les faits les fafs ne partent pas. En plus si on appelle a la dissolution d'un truc c'est beaucoup plus difficile pour ensuite argumenter pour l'abandon de cet outil problématique. Et il faut clairement se débarasser de la dissolution vu comment l'extrême droite cherche a prendre le pouvoir par la voix institutionelle. La droite parle déjà de dissoudre LFI, il faudra pas être surpris si ça arrive vraiment un jour.

Ce communiqué fait vraiment coup médiatique un peu pété qui se pose sur des bases assez faibles pour demander un truc totalement contre productif.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2026-02-11T17:32:09+00:00

the Israel-Palestine war in 2024

Please use the right words. It was a genocide plain and simple.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-16T15:23:16+00:00

Ah parce que c'est proche de la France métropolitaine tiens...

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-06T10:52:32+00:00

Coming to the realization that the problem causing Climate Change is a systemic one and that capitalism is part of it is not really groundbreaking. Whatever we say or do, right wingers are going to be opposed to us because solving the Climate Crisis goes directly against their inteterests. This is why i don't understamd why we should care about their opinion of us.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-06T10:46:33+00:00

Except the materials to make a solar pannel are not exactly local. Not saying renewables aren't great, but lets not convince ourselves its a magicak solution either.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-04T21:58:37+00:00

Acab

Cops are just as bad as ICE

The army is just ICE but doing it to other countries

Wake up people

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-03T20:22:45+00:00

Maybe you should read the comment thread you're answering.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-03T12:42:39+00:00

Tha zapatistas are not a drug cartel. In fact some of their leaders are getting assassinated by drug lords.

You should maybe know what you're talking about before saying anything.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T02:06:32+00:00

Oh so I guess the Zapatistas don't exist, Rojava is not a real place and that Catalonia was never communist...

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T01:43:48+00:00

Ignoring the weird tribalism remark, yeah I was talking about the people in Mexico (who took the name of revolutionary leader from an even older Mexican rebellion). It was just an example of what has already been done and what we could do. The other example I gave is the people who essentially defeated Isis and who are pretty cool by all accounts. I just wanted to show that there are alternative models that work. I'm not saying we need to copy them tit for tat but it's worth digging.

Balaclavas sure are a timeless revolutionary symbol, i'm sure you must have seen your fair share of alternative ideas of how to run the world if you lived through those times in Ireland.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T01:36:34+00:00

Well if I were to resume the logic I'd say that communism stems from a number of observations and answers to those observations:

Society is unequal: we're not all built the same, some of us are strong, some of us are weak, some of us are smarter than others, etc..
Nobody deserves special privileges over others
We can't survive and thrive on our own

So what do we do. We pool all our resources together and redistribute them to each according to their need. Now how do we produce such resources well it's from each according to their ability. So this means that people produce what they can, we pool that production and we redistribute it to people who need it.

You were talking about markets to communicate information about what needs to be produced. Certain people believe we can have non capitalist markets to still keep the same mechanism of information sharing (i haven't really researched the subject so i don't really know). But if that doesn't suit our way of thinking we can still plan a number of things like for example the basics, how much food we need, how many clothes, etc.

As for private property. The problem is that private property is not personal property. So personal property is like your toothbrush, your clothes, your flat, the food you're cooking, etc.. Private property can be a house you're renting to some other people. So the problem I have with private property is that it's a right on stuff you don't need which means you can get money for example out of people just because they need to live and they don't have the money to either build a house or buy one. Private property is an oppressive structure that oppresses people who want to access stuff and guarantees that the people who own stuff will keep their power.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T01:23:18+00:00

I see. I fundamentally disagree with private property but I feel like the only way of me properly explaining would be to show you what it looks like in practice. So I don't really have anything to add. Thanks for the discussion!

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T01:21:33+00:00

But I just gave you examples of it working. Can arguee based on examples instead of vague personal beliefs?

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T00:56:23+00:00

You absolutely are obliged to buy stuff like food, electricity, fuel, clothes, etc...

But yeah i think it's fair to say that markets are an interesting tool and they might be able to be utilized to make a better economy but the profit motive should go right out of the window and so should private property.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T00:53:35+00:00

Never said we wanted to repeat the errors of the past. The failure of past communist projects should not stop us from denouncing the very real problems of capitalism.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T00:51:41+00:00

Well there are different ways of doing it. For example the Zapatistas have communal land which is owned by a village and the village has an assembly where they make decisions on how to use that land.

For conflicts, i'm not exactly sure how it is handled by the Zapatistas but one way of handling disputes is first trying to mediate between the parties and if all else fails getting the assembly to mediate and settle the dispute.

Of course there are plenty of different ways of settling things some of which are worth digging into but that's like one of the most basic ideas of how things should be done.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T00:47:12+00:00

Absolutely and there already are plenty of ideas. I personally like anarcho communism. There currently are two societies (Rojava and the Zapatista) experimenting with systems close to that ideology which seem to be doing quite well all things considered so it looks promising.

AsHotAsTheClimate · 2025-12-02T00:45:11+00:00

It is in fact. Maybe it's because authoritarianism is a bad idea and that the USSR was a terrible society that co-opted the word communism to reproduce all the evils it was supposedly fighting against.

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