Suggestion for a path to revolution: Organize yourselves and practice solidarity
First thing: don’t forget those who are not able to change habits, are disabled, don’t speak your language, are not successful. Every good idea should be evaluated by how it’s possible to be applied by everyone, not only the “early adopters”.
The idea of federation teaches to set up large structures or organizations in small, decentralized units that are, for example, geographically sorted. This is the opposite of monopolists and centralization, which is the current development of the capitalist system.
What can easily be done in every-day-life, that means apart from political structures, is organizing in units by topic or area of life. The background is to think about the necessities of everyone’s personal life and how they can be satisfied. The aim is to create alternatives to a lifestyle based on consumption, in which the companies will always win.
In order to achieve an exit or parallel path to the capitalist system, we must solve or release ourselves from the dependencies of the system, which means the capitalist companies that try to get into all our lives and earn profit from it. Knowledge sharing and education are the most important factors for this. Everyone can participate and share something, and everyone can learn from others on how to practice the ideas.
Habitation is the easiest unit for organizing in this respect, because you probably will meet these people already, living together in a flat share, as a family, or in the same building or neighborhood. This situation allows to spread ideas simply by communicating in every-day-life or sticking an information paper to the front door of the building. Of course you’ll need to talk to each other over social or other barriers, but you will win a lot. But organizing in other fields is possible, too.
The most important dependency of the economic and political will be money, as we need to live and eat. Then, the biggest share of the monthly income for most people is the rent. Organizing around this topic might share ways on how to reduce costs for the rent, finding a good apartment or share one, and to get legal counsel for situations when the landlord tries to increase costs.
Habitation costs include costs for communication, Internet access and (mobile) phone, and the suggestion for an alternative way is to share Internet provider contracts, set up a WiFi for the whole building, and give tips on cheap tariffs for mobile phones.
After that, there will probably be food. Why not buy and prepare food together? The idea of cultivating and harvesting own food should not be forgotten, but it will only be a solution for a very limited field of food and people that can implement it, and it’s rather not the topic here. What isn’t discussed here either is costs for clothes, but let’s mention exchanging used clothes and flea markets.
Third, after habitation and food/clothing, technical devices not only are expensive, but they are the main reason for the profit the big companies do with everyone’s money today. We are now far away from devices that are solutions to actual needs, but which are mostly lifestyle products that we think to need to buy because of the advertisement we see all day and the technical progress we are supposed to accept as necessary. That doesn’t mean the development in information technology is bad, but it happens without any opportunity for regulation or reflection in the society that is affected by it. In capitalism, big companies will always need to expand grow, and this is the key for all the negative effects on climate and societies we watch today.
On laptops and phones you can share knowledge on how to repair, upgrade the hardware, and where to buy old or used devices. This might require you to not throw away old things. In case you don’t have any room left for all the old devices and no one from your community needs them, just donate them to NGOs that give them to people with little money or use them for their own work. Rather don’t sell things, as that gives profit to the platforms or companies and lets you stick to the idea of profit.
Don’t waste money and time (struggling with the usability) on closed-source software, use Linux and free software instead that also is less resource demanding and runs on older hardware.
Practical advice: How all this could look like regarding IT
You are living in an apartment that you took over from a friend, so that the landlord didn’t raise the rent. That friend also knows a lawyer who gave some advice on what to say in case of legal problems. Internet access is provided by the friendly neighbor via a used WiFi access point that you had left. Because you’re mostly having WiFi access for your phone, which is a used company Smartphone, a prepaid tariff for phone calls and messages is enough.
For your daily work, you are using a used business notebook with upgraded memory and storage that you purchased at low cost. It runs a Linux operating system, which makes it fast enough for today’s software and lets you control what data is been sent out.
And above all, you talk about what you do and how you solved those problems.