cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54239937

During the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on farms, neighbors often showed up at the auctions together.

They’d bid only a few cents, and return the land to the family that lost it. Sometimes a noose hung nearby as a warning to outsiders not to profit from someone else’s ruin.

It was rough, but it worked, communities protected each other when the system wouldn’t.

If a collapse like that happened today, do you think people would still stand together or has that kind of solidarity disappeared? Could it happen again?

  • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    No chance if possibly only because the government would immediately crack down and boot lickers would refuse to stand up to the capitalists and government.

      • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        Why would that matter to the people on top who can avoid the worst and control the police and government so thoroughly why would they ever allow something “illegal” like this to go unchallenged when they don’t have to.

          • Zhayl@lemmy.world
            9·
            4 days ago

            Look how divided people are already. If you were close to starving, family suffering, do you think republicans and dems would get along? Not the ones I know, especially republicans. I know several that are ready for a civil war, actually prepping for it. One in particular I no longer associate with is hoping it comes to that.

            I believe that we wouldn’t come together because the people at the top wouldn’t want that. They would stir up more drama to try and make the poor fight. That is what it comes down to. Make the poor war with themselves so the rich get ignored with their abuse of society. Always has been, always will be the motivation. Country, time doesn’t matter.