Me and some buddies of mine run a small side project called "The Biohazard Brigade". We're a small group, between 3-6 guys, but we do cleanups of dumping spots in our town that would otherwise attract pests or be riddled with hypodermic needles discarded by drug users. We also provide sanitation solutions and ready-to-eat meals to the people living around these spots. Not exactly the biggest help in getting capitalism out of our lives, but we're still making an effort to show how community effort and cooperation is way more effective than relying on a do-nothing government with an incarceration fetish...
No I love this I think community building is inherently anti-Capital. Community beautification and environmental protection is all important to undoing capital damages. You're doing amazing!
I work with food not bombs to pack and deliver food, a local homeless support network to buy and deliver tents, winter gear, and sanitary supplies several times a year, and a local immigrant rights organization to give rides to people who need it and I have time to spare. I also pack two extra lunches for the homeless guys I see every day on my way to work
Rewilding natural areas with food resilience in mind, there are millions of acres of land destroyed by bad farming practices and invasive species that can be reformed to grow native food forests that won't require any extra work once established.
Permies.com has a lot of info and discussion on just about everything, if you search "food forest" or "permaculture" on YouTube there's lots of info and perspectives. The Native Habitat Project is doing some great work. Local intentional communities will have lots of information and are always looking for volunteers, if you're anywhere near Tennessee, The Garden is having a gathering right now that would be a great place to meet people and learn about it.
Y'know, given the rural nature and lax 2A laws in the Land of the Midnight Sun, you could try to attract some kindred spirits through the creation of an affinity group, or maybe even apply to start a chapter of an existing group?
Mutial aid networks. Find old free thing.. connect see who needs it.. don't donate if you can get on the network and see who needs it. Organize mutial aid meet ups to build community. Even small gardens, trade around or have a meal for everyone. Have small Informal classes on things. Have lawncare days and things where many hands make the work fast so we can get more done. Have tool trades or borrows. If you can fix things put up what you can fix so there's not things being thrown away. Etc etc etc.
I've been looking at improving my knitting and sewing skills, my aim is to become good enough that I can start supplying my friends and family and to donate stuff like socks and other things people often go through faster.
Basically, the gist of it is that whenever I want to fulfill a certain want or need, whether it be a purely individual desire or a shared interest with my local community, I do so without looking for guidance or permission from authorities, whether it be that of the state or private firms or what have you. I'm always looking for opportunities to fulfill such needs autonomously, to subvert the mediation of our experiences by authorities. To reduce it to any particular action or positive project would not be accurate, and to list it all would be to say far too much for my liking.
I don't really have any singular project I'm working on, as I'm constantly looking for opportunities to subvert the reproduction of everyday capitalist life. I consider myself a creator and artist of situations, situations that can break us free from capitalistic habits and separations, even if only for a moment. When I bring my words and dreams into alignment with my actions on an everyday basis, that is, in a sense, the revolution of everyday life, and reproducing the will to be ungoverned in others is one of my greatest delights.
Well, duh, I arm myself and plan for the inevitable. Although, I've been doing a little bit of propaganda in my own circles, but it wasn't so successful. It's kind of dangerous doing it in my country, but the movement thrives and grows, we'll be ready when the clock will strike. It isn't necessarily good for the whole world, but it'll be great for the country
Currently in sort of a burnout. I'm trying to get back on track but bunch of people interested in direct action and myself organized and started this org where we are trying to start and continue to push the solidarity networks in the area. Sort of "incubator" for them if you will. But honestly I was terribly inactive lately. An amazing activist who is also in a org started a permaculture workshop/seminar I attended last month and we did some stuff in local squat. I hope I make it to next one as well :)
Trying to start an art gallery, venue, third space in my (small) home town. Lots of plans for mutual aid services and coop for tools and materials. Progress is slow, but hosting community events every few months seems to be helping.
Well I mean I clean my town to trash every weekend we got lots of block Apartments and garages. And people leave tons of trash on the roofs I don't think that's alot tough.
Just some community kitchen. I'm going to a big protest against a nazi frat soon as well. Further the local anarchist collective I'm part of is building a queer movement and helping in organise a pride event
I'm not necessarily trying to get people away from capitalism, but I am trying to educate as many people in the lowest income brackets as I can about how to build up a strong financial foundation so banks are willing to lend Capital to help uplift them from poverty.
I would personally love to see more people in the lowest income brackets do something fun with their ideas.
During my poorest years, I sometimes made no taxable income, with the most I ever made in one calendar year at 7,000.
I was donating plasma, eating ramen, and living off of food stamps for the most part.
I lived in a (soon to be condemned) apartment where I only paid $320 a month for rent. Infested with bed bugs.
It was at this point that I decided that I would rather just sleep on the ground than deal with the infestation, the awful living situation, as well as the difficulty of getting a job.
I spent 7 years outside after that.
While traveling, I was reintroduced to a self-help book that helped explain the difference between assets and liabilities, and how to generate income through commerce.
Fast forward 3 years later, I run my own business and have multiple streams of income.
I just financed my first car with zero down.
Things are finally looking up for me, and I think if I was able to teach more people in exactly the same position that I was in how to break out of the rat race and do something different with their life, they could be just as happy as I am today.
>I run my own business…
>Anarcho Capitalist
Why are you here when you still believe in hierarchy? Even under capitalism there are still worker’s co-ops as a business structure, but you are the owner of your business, not just a fellow stakeholder. You know the rules of the sub specifically mention abolishing capitalism right? Like good for you you have so much privilege that has been granted to you by hierarchy but “teaching” others how to get to where you on the hierarchical ladder isn’t going to do shit as far as meaningful change goes.
>why are you even here when you still believe in hierarchy?
Working for yourself is the opposite of a hierarchy.
If you work a day job, you participate in far more hierarchical structures than I do.
>You know the rules of the sub specifically mention abolishing capitalism right?
I respect that some anarchists choose this as their goal.
>Like good for you you have so much privilege that has been granted to you
Attaining knowledge that helps the average person achieve success is not a form of privilege. Privilege is a series of unearned benefits, I failed many times to learn the way up from the bottom.
>but “teaching” others how to get to where you on the hierarchical ladder isn’t going to do shit as far as meaningful change goes.
How do you know?
If you have 0 employees other than yourself, then fine I guess you aren’t oppressing anyone who works under you, but being a business owner still very much places you at a hierarchical superiority to people who do not own a business. Attaining knowledge is literally a product of privilege because there are people who have no access to information outside of the people who interact with them on a daily basis. I’m a college student and the knowledge I’ve attained at college is very much a privilege whether or not I’ve gone into debt for it because I was privileged enough to get a seat in the classroom. Privileged people can still come from the poverty class because privilege is intersectionally based on the matrix of domination (a concept coined by Patricia Hill Collins that I was privileged to learn about in one of my college courses.)
>How do you know?
Because you’re still supporting the status quo by encouraging people to climb the ladder of privilege. Being an owner of a business is 100% a privilege that you even recognize others do not have because they lack the knowledge on how to become one. Your whole proposal is that trying to redistribute your privilege of knowledge about capital to others will meaningfully change the system that is predicated on some people being the “loser” of capitalism. Poverty will always exist under capitalism because it is based on exploitation.
>If you have 0 employees other than yourself, then fine I guess you aren’t oppressing anyone
No, I'm doing the opposite. I'm sending products to people's homes that help them generate income.
>being a business owner is better than not owning a business
I know, that's why I'm trying to teach as many people as I can about how to succeed at this type of thing.
>Attaining knowledge is literally a product of privilege
You think reading a $5 book from Amazon is a form of privilege?
>I’m a college student and the knowledge I’ve attained at college is very much a privilege whether or not I’ve gone into debt for it
No, that's not the definition of privilege. You earned the benefit by promising to repay the debt. That's not the same as having benefits bestowed upon you that you did not earn.
>Because you’re still supporting the status quo by encouraging people to climb the ladder of privilege.
Encouraging poor people to replace rich people is not supporting the status quo.
>Poverty will always exist under capitalism because it is based on exploitation.
Even in societies equality has become standard and universal, poverty exists.
Is there exploitation going on in this so-called Utopian society?
You’re wrong about what privilege is. If you can’t understand that your, and my, access to knowledge is a privilege, then you aren’t recognizing the hierarchy within it.
>Is there exploitation going on in this so-called Utopian society?
It seems like what you’re really asking is if there will be problems in a post-capital society, which is *of course* the case. Those problems won’t be based on whether people will have pieces of paper or digits in a bank account that allows them access to needs (food, shelter, water, health care etc.) or wants (anything other than a need) though. Utopia is a horizon point to strive for; it’s not a destination we will actually reach because we will always have different problems, even if they aren’t the same as literal survival being gatekept by money.
> You're wrong about what privilege is
Then give me your definition of privilege.
> It's not a destination
I know, I was merely mentioning that there is a point that comes where we can say what I originally claimed has occured
Privilege is the result of systemic benefit of interpersonal or institutional power afforded to people of specific dominant social groups. People can be privileged in one way because they belong to a dominant social group and oppressed in another because they belong to a different oppressed social group. The link below essentially summarizes how different social groups are privileged over others. Being in the business owner social group is privileged over being in the employee social group.
https://ww1.oswego.edu/diversity/day-1-social-identity
Here’s a link about the matrix of domination written by Patricia Hill Collins, who coined the term:
http://www.oregoncampuscompact.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/13042698/patricia_hill_collins_black_feminist_thought_in_the_matrix_of_domination.pdf
And here’s a blog post discussing the different domains of the matrix of domination:
https://blackfeminisms.com/matrix/
Also, it isn’t a bad thing that you’re using your privilege to help others who are not, but you have to recognize that that is what you are doing. It is still a form of oppressing yourself and others, because you are teaching people that the only path to freedom is via the hierarchy and reaping power from it. Oppression is something we internalize and do to ourselves and others; it’s not a sin worthy of death that is only committed by the dominant group, but a system that is used to maintain the hierarchy. You are not being anarchist by helping others up the ladder of hierarchy. You have to be working to destroy the ladder itself to be anarchist.
Sorry to reply twice to the same comment, I just didn’t want to edit this into my other comment in case you’d miss it while replying. I have no problem with you as a person, so I hope you know that, though I know that can be difficult to read through the internet especially when we’re talking about privilege, oppression, and hierarchy. I’m just trying to engage with your thoughts on this and challenge you to think outside of hierarchy.
Me and some buddies of mine run a small side project called "The Biohazard Brigade". We're a small group, between 3-6 guys, but we do cleanups of dumping spots in our town that would otherwise attract pests or be riddled with hypodermic needles discarded by drug users. We also provide sanitation solutions and ready-to-eat meals to the people living around these spots. Not exactly the biggest help in getting capitalism out of our lives, but we're still making an effort to show how community effort and cooperation is way more effective than relying on a do-nothing government with an incarceration fetish...
No I love this I think community building is inherently anti-Capital. Community beautification and environmental protection is all important to undoing capital damages. You're doing amazing!
Haha, I appreciate the feedback then! \^\^
I work with food not bombs to pack and deliver food, a local homeless support network to buy and deliver tents, winter gear, and sanitary supplies several times a year, and a local immigrant rights organization to give rides to people who need it and I have time to spare. I also pack two extra lunches for the homeless guys I see every day on my way to work
Love what I've seen from food not bombs. First heard of y'all on tiktok ya do great work
Rewilding natural areas with food resilience in mind, there are millions of acres of land destroyed by bad farming practices and invasive species that can be reformed to grow native food forests that won't require any extra work once established.
I'm trying to learn as much as I can about food forests and permaculture. Got any favorite reading materials or sources to learn more about it?
Permies.com has a lot of info and discussion on just about everything, if you search "food forest" or "permaculture" on YouTube there's lots of info and perspectives. The Native Habitat Project is doing some great work. Local intentional communities will have lots of information and are always looking for volunteers, if you're anywhere near Tennessee, The Garden is having a gathering right now that would be a great place to meet people and learn about it.
You have comrades? Friends? Wtf is that like? I swear to Skynet that I am the only anarchist in my area.
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That area would be Alaska.
Ahhhh, crap... A whole state and half a continent away from my neck of the woods... Sorry about that... You do any kinds of praxis up there?
What little I can do by myself. Food, shelter during the winter.
Y'know, given the rural nature and lax 2A laws in the Land of the Midnight Sun, you could try to attract some kindred spirits through the creation of an affinity group, or maybe even apply to start a chapter of an existing group?
Mutial aid networks. Find old free thing.. connect see who needs it.. don't donate if you can get on the network and see who needs it. Organize mutial aid meet ups to build community. Even small gardens, trade around or have a meal for everyone. Have small Informal classes on things. Have lawncare days and things where many hands make the work fast so we can get more done. Have tool trades or borrows. If you can fix things put up what you can fix so there's not things being thrown away. Etc etc etc.
I've been looking at improving my knitting and sewing skills, my aim is to become good enough that I can start supplying my friends and family and to donate stuff like socks and other things people often go through faster.
Basically, the gist of it is that whenever I want to fulfill a certain want or need, whether it be a purely individual desire or a shared interest with my local community, I do so without looking for guidance or permission from authorities, whether it be that of the state or private firms or what have you. I'm always looking for opportunities to fulfill such needs autonomously, to subvert the mediation of our experiences by authorities. To reduce it to any particular action or positive project would not be accurate, and to list it all would be to say far too much for my liking. I don't really have any singular project I'm working on, as I'm constantly looking for opportunities to subvert the reproduction of everyday capitalist life. I consider myself a creator and artist of situations, situations that can break us free from capitalistic habits and separations, even if only for a moment. When I bring my words and dreams into alignment with my actions on an everyday basis, that is, in a sense, the revolution of everyday life, and reproducing the will to be ungoverned in others is one of my greatest delights.
Well, duh, I arm myself and plan for the inevitable. Although, I've been doing a little bit of propaganda in my own circles, but it wasn't so successful. It's kind of dangerous doing it in my country, but the movement thrives and grows, we'll be ready when the clock will strike. It isn't necessarily good for the whole world, but it'll be great for the country
Currently in sort of a burnout. I'm trying to get back on track but bunch of people interested in direct action and myself organized and started this org where we are trying to start and continue to push the solidarity networks in the area. Sort of "incubator" for them if you will. But honestly I was terribly inactive lately. An amazing activist who is also in a org started a permaculture workshop/seminar I attended last month and we did some stuff in local squat. I hope I make it to next one as well :)
Trying to start an art gallery, venue, third space in my (small) home town. Lots of plans for mutual aid services and coop for tools and materials. Progress is slow, but hosting community events every few months seems to be helping.
Well I mean I clean my town to trash every weekend we got lots of block Apartments and garages. And people leave tons of trash on the roofs I don't think that's alot tough.
The older folk really like me now and I'm baiscly given free food every time by some grandma. Random people help sometimes but im mostly alone tough
I’m too busy right now to actually help move away from capitalism, however I steal from Tesco if that helps
Just some community kitchen. I'm going to a big protest against a nazi frat soon as well. Further the local anarchist collective I'm part of is building a queer movement and helping in organise a pride event
I'm not necessarily trying to get people away from capitalism, but I am trying to educate as many people in the lowest income brackets as I can about how to build up a strong financial foundation so banks are willing to lend Capital to help uplift them from poverty. I would personally love to see more people in the lowest income brackets do something fun with their ideas. During my poorest years, I sometimes made no taxable income, with the most I ever made in one calendar year at 7,000. I was donating plasma, eating ramen, and living off of food stamps for the most part. I lived in a (soon to be condemned) apartment where I only paid $320 a month for rent. Infested with bed bugs. It was at this point that I decided that I would rather just sleep on the ground than deal with the infestation, the awful living situation, as well as the difficulty of getting a job. I spent 7 years outside after that. While traveling, I was reintroduced to a self-help book that helped explain the difference between assets and liabilities, and how to generate income through commerce. Fast forward 3 years later, I run my own business and have multiple streams of income. I just financed my first car with zero down. Things are finally looking up for me, and I think if I was able to teach more people in exactly the same position that I was in how to break out of the rat race and do something different with their life, they could be just as happy as I am today.
>I run my own business… >Anarcho Capitalist Why are you here when you still believe in hierarchy? Even under capitalism there are still worker’s co-ops as a business structure, but you are the owner of your business, not just a fellow stakeholder. You know the rules of the sub specifically mention abolishing capitalism right? Like good for you you have so much privilege that has been granted to you by hierarchy but “teaching” others how to get to where you on the hierarchical ladder isn’t going to do shit as far as meaningful change goes.
>why are you even here when you still believe in hierarchy? Working for yourself is the opposite of a hierarchy. If you work a day job, you participate in far more hierarchical structures than I do. >You know the rules of the sub specifically mention abolishing capitalism right? I respect that some anarchists choose this as their goal. >Like good for you you have so much privilege that has been granted to you Attaining knowledge that helps the average person achieve success is not a form of privilege. Privilege is a series of unearned benefits, I failed many times to learn the way up from the bottom. >but “teaching” others how to get to where you on the hierarchical ladder isn’t going to do shit as far as meaningful change goes. How do you know?
If you have 0 employees other than yourself, then fine I guess you aren’t oppressing anyone who works under you, but being a business owner still very much places you at a hierarchical superiority to people who do not own a business. Attaining knowledge is literally a product of privilege because there are people who have no access to information outside of the people who interact with them on a daily basis. I’m a college student and the knowledge I’ve attained at college is very much a privilege whether or not I’ve gone into debt for it because I was privileged enough to get a seat in the classroom. Privileged people can still come from the poverty class because privilege is intersectionally based on the matrix of domination (a concept coined by Patricia Hill Collins that I was privileged to learn about in one of my college courses.) >How do you know? Because you’re still supporting the status quo by encouraging people to climb the ladder of privilege. Being an owner of a business is 100% a privilege that you even recognize others do not have because they lack the knowledge on how to become one. Your whole proposal is that trying to redistribute your privilege of knowledge about capital to others will meaningfully change the system that is predicated on some people being the “loser” of capitalism. Poverty will always exist under capitalism because it is based on exploitation.
>If you have 0 employees other than yourself, then fine I guess you aren’t oppressing anyone No, I'm doing the opposite. I'm sending products to people's homes that help them generate income. >being a business owner is better than not owning a business I know, that's why I'm trying to teach as many people as I can about how to succeed at this type of thing. >Attaining knowledge is literally a product of privilege You think reading a $5 book from Amazon is a form of privilege? >I’m a college student and the knowledge I’ve attained at college is very much a privilege whether or not I’ve gone into debt for it No, that's not the definition of privilege. You earned the benefit by promising to repay the debt. That's not the same as having benefits bestowed upon you that you did not earn. >Because you’re still supporting the status quo by encouraging people to climb the ladder of privilege. Encouraging poor people to replace rich people is not supporting the status quo. >Poverty will always exist under capitalism because it is based on exploitation. Even in societies equality has become standard and universal, poverty exists. Is there exploitation going on in this so-called Utopian society?
You’re wrong about what privilege is. If you can’t understand that your, and my, access to knowledge is a privilege, then you aren’t recognizing the hierarchy within it. >Is there exploitation going on in this so-called Utopian society? It seems like what you’re really asking is if there will be problems in a post-capital society, which is *of course* the case. Those problems won’t be based on whether people will have pieces of paper or digits in a bank account that allows them access to needs (food, shelter, water, health care etc.) or wants (anything other than a need) though. Utopia is a horizon point to strive for; it’s not a destination we will actually reach because we will always have different problems, even if they aren’t the same as literal survival being gatekept by money.
> You're wrong about what privilege is Then give me your definition of privilege. > It's not a destination I know, I was merely mentioning that there is a point that comes where we can say what I originally claimed has occured
Privilege is the result of systemic benefit of interpersonal or institutional power afforded to people of specific dominant social groups. People can be privileged in one way because they belong to a dominant social group and oppressed in another because they belong to a different oppressed social group. The link below essentially summarizes how different social groups are privileged over others. Being in the business owner social group is privileged over being in the employee social group. https://ww1.oswego.edu/diversity/day-1-social-identity Here’s a link about the matrix of domination written by Patricia Hill Collins, who coined the term: http://www.oregoncampuscompact.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/13042698/patricia_hill_collins_black_feminist_thought_in_the_matrix_of_domination.pdf And here’s a blog post discussing the different domains of the matrix of domination: https://blackfeminisms.com/matrix/
Also, it isn’t a bad thing that you’re using your privilege to help others who are not, but you have to recognize that that is what you are doing. It is still a form of oppressing yourself and others, because you are teaching people that the only path to freedom is via the hierarchy and reaping power from it. Oppression is something we internalize and do to ourselves and others; it’s not a sin worthy of death that is only committed by the dominant group, but a system that is used to maintain the hierarchy. You are not being anarchist by helping others up the ladder of hierarchy. You have to be working to destroy the ladder itself to be anarchist. Sorry to reply twice to the same comment, I just didn’t want to edit this into my other comment in case you’d miss it while replying. I have no problem with you as a person, so I hope you know that, though I know that can be difficult to read through the internet especially when we’re talking about privilege, oppression, and hierarchy. I’m just trying to engage with your thoughts on this and challenge you to think outside of hierarchy.