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?
Are right wing people right to seek a unified culture so that people would be willing to stand together with their peers?
Or is the left wing approach the answer where everybody but fascists is supported and the right wing people have to be convinced to join?
Is that seriously a question? “Is it right to create an in-group or should we just help everyone who gives a shit about the social contract?”
Yes. It’s the underlying problem. Even your summary is a valid question. People standing together means everybody has to be part of the in-group, or if there are various groups, they still have to find a common social contract. Otherwise somebody will use the situation for their benefit.