#anarachism

[theangryblackfem]

Just because that last reblog pmo, heres some things you can do to help put an end to capitalism even if you're dirt poor.

Unfollow influencers who promote over consumption, start feeding your mind with healthy, eco friendly, good news pages. My faves are @sambentley & @newlifestyleabb on tiktok. The #deinfulencing on tiktok too. @greengirlleah & @pattiegonia on Insta

Get a library card! Go to a public library, or use free public books archives like Internet archive

Block big brands on social media. Don't let them influence you. Trust me, once you stop consuming their advertisement, you're gonna forget most of them even exist because you don't actually need them.

Find your local No Buy group. No buy groups are people who give away what they No longer need, for the price of $0. Aim to stop buying certain things, and support your local community without hurting your pockets.

Trade with your friends and family! That one skill that you have is not useless, share it with your people. Do people's hair, in exchange for art. Share your tea bags in exchange for some sugar.

Start or join a mutal aid. Help your community directly, even starting group chats help if you don't have the means or finances to go outside

Organise a community fridge. Share food for free and get others to donate food. Set it up in your school, college, or neighbourhood

Support worker co-ops, they're organisations run by the workers. Buy from them if possible, you can even create your own.

Help your loved ones avoid exploitative jobs or landlords. Share information about workplaces and areas, educate each other on red flags, protect your people.

Live collectively if possible. Shared housing leads to reduced costs and less capitalistic dependency

Organise rent strikes or tenant unions. If your landlords are treating you poorly, if rent is too high, or your building has poor conditions then organise a strike

Join a protest or a direct action group. You'll find plenty of local protests for specific issues on Facebook. You don't have to be on the front lines, you can support with food, art, security, word of mouth, and medic roles

Start a free school, share your knowledge for free. Education is important, knowledge is power. Teach what you know, and get others who know what you know to teach others too.

Practice autonomous living. Grow your own food, fix your own things, support others with these things too.

Help build a commune. Share land with people, and resources. If you grow a huge garden in your back yard, invite others to pick what they need.

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

[transdatingdiscord]

Trans Only Dating Server

Hai! For any lefty trans folk who are interested there is a trans only leftist dating discord server that’s got a decent community on it. There is vetting to keep out chasers, non-lefties, and minors. If you are transgender/non-binary and a leftist feel free to join. https://discord.gg/Xgrr789XJ7

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

‘Organise your Rage’

[evilelitest2]

Are you a liberal?

Depends on what definition that means.  Marxists/Anarchist would call me a liberal, but they kinda call anybody they don’t like liberal, so it is kinda meaningless as a term.  If you are engaging with certain online discourse, liberalism just kinda means “bad guy” which makes it very confusing to actually use as a term (SJW is another such term).  This is even more true of the term “neoliberal” which is even more corrupted 

There is a philosophy of liberalism but it first emerged in the last 17th century, and as you might imagine, has transformed and altered across time and space since then, as any political philosophy does.  According to Marxists, liberal is just equivalent to “Capitalist” but that is a pretty simplistic take on the larger philosophy which has a lot of variations.  And Marx has a very bad habit of making his own definitions for things and then insisting everybody else go by them, so that is suspect anyways.  

Roughly speaking (very roughly) liberalism tends to believe in the following

Belief in a democratic representative goverment

Values Freedom From, or Negative Freedom, aka Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Movement, 

Really into Private Property Rights

Secular and tends to be really into Enlightenment values 

Focus on individualism

Some degree of international conception of rights

belief in goverment based on both Checks and Balances and a Constitution, holding it in check

A tendency to value professionalism, education, and meritocracy 

At least to some degree supportive of capitalism 

Now with the exception of private property (which I am far more...ehhh about) and support of capitalism, I think I fall pretty solidly into that, I think those are good values.  Its worth noting that liberalism has a LONG history of talking up values, and then denying them to most of the population, like how John Locke basically said non white people don’t deserve property rights.  SO one of the debate around liberal values tends to be “Hey those sound nice...maybe everybody could enjoy them and not just a small wealth cabal?”.  

But even beyond that issue, I kinda don’t think liberal values are enough.  You can’t just have Freedom From, you also need Freedom too in my mind.  Which includes

Access to universal healthcare

 Universal education

Protections for marginalized people 

access to food, housing, clothing, and basic survival needs 

Of course none of that address the social questions, like protections of the Queer community, women, abortion rights, and the state providing rights to racial minorities.  Liberal is just too simplistic of a term honestly.  

I also tend to be very much in favor of regulation of the Free Market, high taxes, intense oversight, and the public sector getting more than the private sector.  However, I wouldn’t be a full socialist since I don’t really want to abolish capitalism, so much as regulate and control it.  

So I think I’d probably be some sort of Progressive Social Democrat, but again, political labels are less important than actual actions. 

[pinkkevlar]

Leverage is the perfect show to calm me down before bed. 1. Starts out exciting and with a capitalist problem that I personally have no means of solving. 2. By the end of the episode, some awful person who takes advantage of people fucks people over is fucked over and the world is a better place. 3. The crew is full of weirdos. 4. Parker is autistic like me. Elliott makes me feel safe. Hardison is just a total snarky badass and they are OT3 so it’s super cute.  5. They usually have character development which makes me feel good 6. It’s exciting but not too exciting. It’s funny but too funny. It’s super predictable or I’ve watched it a million times 7. It has a message of the law is not enough and rich and powerful people are awful so criminals are the ones who can do something about it. Which like, is super in line with my values 8. There’s 5 seasons so there’s plenty of variety. 

[all-is-for-all]

comrades: the people will respond to anti-capitalist movements better if we make appealing propaganda. we need to connect the struggle for human liberation to where they’re at. the revolution will be on the people’s terms. any ideas?

me:

[irishbluejay]

THEY: Breaking Down the Gender Barriers

THEY: Breaking Down the Gender Barriers

I have been inspired recently to post more of my fiction writing. Blame it on my friends I guess. While I was overseas, I recently completed my first short story. I a  now working on my second. What follows is approximately the first two pages of my story, simply entitled “They”. Freak. He-She. Faggety-Ann. These were just a few epithets amongst the many that had been spewed their way since…

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