Antiwork
For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx
In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland
The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc
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Without mutual aid, intersection and solidarity, you’ll never break the evictions, travelling expenses, resources, and food unavailability. A large number of people need quit, plant food, cohabite, kill landlords, and set rails to travel to their needs.
Small steps are already valuable. Working fewer hours, skipping food, having community events, sharing info on legal rights, and traveling by bicycle build momentum and allow the counterculture to grow without requiring mass collective action to work.
(Planting food can be a small step if you have a garden you can legally use to cultivate food for 5+ years, but that's a big "if")
The time for big steps was 500 hundred years ago. The best time is now. Force your comrades to revolt. Riot.
Taking big steps quickly is how you end up being 50 radicals surrounded by 200 cops who beat the shit out of you while the rest of the population eats the propaganda about how evil you are.
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Grow a healthy and broad base of support. Propaganda of the deed needs something concrete to propagandize. A black bloc needs a crowd willing to hide their actions. A tired activist needs somewhere to relax, recover, and bask in mutual praise. And everyone needs to eat.
If you don't have time to take it easy, you don't have time not to take it easy. Burning yourself out helps nobody, and any movement stable enough to succeed can survive without you. The grindset is a capitalist lie meant to exhaust you, so why the fuck would you expect that energy to serve you well in a revolt?
Then wait another 500 more years of small slow steps that crumbled again, and again.🙃
I await others not to fall for Liberal Lies.
I am black bloc too.