>Where does the power come from?This'll blow your mind, but it comes from
you. Everything is technically bottom-up. All the power is inherently built on top of productive economic power and local organization.
However, there's an effort to obfuscate this, because if people don't
understand that the power of bosses, presidents, etc. comes from their own actions, then they will not possess the inherent intuition that, by withholding labor, they can stop things which they object to. Part of this obfuscation is accomplished simply through the shady business of wage labor, where workers are not expected to
know exactly what the difference is between the revenue they generate and the cut of it they get in wages; the worker's contribution is inherently obscured, left to bosses and middle-managers to observe objectively. Another, more obviously deliberate aspect of the obfuscation are the various distractions: the idpol, the propaganda, the narratives pushed which demonize certain types of organization (unionization, nationalization of industry, public services, etc.) while promoting or obscuring the existence of other kinds (incorporation, monopolization, privatization, etc.), etc. The idea which is instilled into workers is that everyone is just
naturally supposed to exist in competition; and yet, as this idea is promoted, those with major financial and political power largely seek to do the opposite, and aim to maximize their power to collude with one another without interference while opposing the power of workers, who produce the wealth of those at the top but keep less of that wealth themselves, to do the same. This makes an already uneven dynamic even more skewed in favor of the capitalists, since worker organization is really the only way for the common man to reclaim
power which he himself generates.
This society, as it exists, would collapse the moment that people stop getting up every day to recreate it. Those who benefit from this status quo have organized and consolidated power to prevent that, and to prevent the ascendancy of any competing forms of organization, and to subvert them where they emerge so that they do not fully wield the power they have. The job of ordinary people is to organize harder and more militantly, to consolidate any material collective wealth and power that they have, and to build. People are creatures which organize naturall
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