When you leave a job, all the things you thought were important are suddenly worthless, apart from the personal relationships you built.
currently unemployed, have never been busier, mutual aids, bookclubs, organizing events, personal projects, writing books, making zines/stickers…
I dread when I get a job, and having to go from the most fulfilling work in my life to finally not stressing about money.
Community is one hell of a drug
I’ve had this exact conversation. Margaret did not have a self realization in the last two panels. She just thinks you’re a poor.
This is a question I’ve started asking friends when they’re struggling. What do you want to do? It gets you away from the headspace of what the world expects from you and redirects that energy inward. When you reframe it this way, I’ve found oftentimes, they’ve not once sat down and thought about this question in earnest.
We had this exact neoliberal shitpost months back. Beatrice has failed to mutual aid with Margaret so she doesn’t have to work for a “boss.”
The restaurant too is a capitalist food exploitation, not a canteen. Both are failing each other here.are you saying she failed because she has a job? or because she didn’t create a successful anarchist utopia?
They are failing to intersect and solidify each other.
Learn some theory.ok, (cant read that language, mind transliterating your name for me).
You’re not wrong. but I feel like blaming people doing as much as they can for not doing more is counterproductive.
Also, it seems passive aggressive, that in a conversation about a specific issue, you say learn theory and point me to the entirety of the library. If you’ve read a specific bit of relevant theory, could you direct me to that specifically? otherwise it also implies that you don’t know, making the entire exchange more frustrating.
We don’t need to treat this as a reddit fight, I’m not your enemy, I’m you’re friend, and disagreements should lead to growth, not fragmentation.
The display name quite literally represents my praxis: AntiBully Ranger.
I feel like blaming people doing as much as they can for not doing more is counterproductive.
You’re projecting this.
This is the /c/flipanarchy.
This comic is neoliberal💩.Those of us that studied theory know both these characters do not praxis anarchism in the slightest.
could you direct me to that specifically?
At the least you are indeed demonstrating you have no knowledge on what mutual aid requires.
disagreements should lead to growth
That is quite literally my thesis of my response. Both these characters disagree on how they should fulfill their desires, and instead of helping each other achieve them, and grow stronger together, they are failing each other by robbing others: capitalism.
I do agree that I am projecting, I am newish to this, am trying my best, and I am working with a couple mutual aids (one of those is giving me charity vibes but I rather people being fed than abandoning it) and other projects. So I am assuming I am wrong about things, so I intentionally avoid any leadership like space, they organize and they need help, I help. Could I do more? probably, but I barely have any time for myself where I don’t read.
At worse I see in the coming that both are trying to one up each other into “which one is better” which is silly. But her focus on community and self actualization rather than employment as the traits that define someone is what I assume is the point.
mind elaborating why this comic is neoliberal?
I am trying to assume goodwill on your part, I know internet sucks, and it is safe to assume everyone is a troll trying to push other down to “win” a made up argument. but I really do not want that. and if I sound like that, then sorry.
I don’t see how the girl in the left is exploiting the one in the right, the one in the right is actively celebrating the capitalistic system in her life. while the one on the left sees it as an inconvenience in her life.
At worse I see in the coming that both are trying to one up each other into “which one is better” which is silly. But her focus on community and self actualization rather than employment as the traits that define someone is what I assume is the point.
mind elaborating why this comic is neoliberal?
Reread what you responded twice😁
Neoliberalism: people who hold law as authority over intersection, do not praxis mutual aid in order to fulfill their social needs, and actualize. Beatrice did nothing to comfort Margaret on how to directly act on what she needs to actualize and fulfill her needs and desires. Margaret only sees her exploitive boss’s theft as the means to achieve what she needs. There’s no intersection being done in these strips, by either of them. This is why the comic is neolib propaganda, and not /c/flipanarchy.
assume goodwill
It depends the community. Here, with comrades, I do assume mutual aid&intersection (goodwill). In say /c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, I am neutral. But in progressivepolitics@lemmy.world, I know I am on enemy territory intersecting: I assume the worst, in bad “faith.”
girl in the left is exploiting
Beatrice, the one with glasses exploits hungry people in a restaurant. Instead of making the food free for everyone, e.i. a canteen, she never once said to Margaret “come join me, so you don’t have to worry about food, while we find what fulfills you.” She is not intersecting her needs. She not mutual aiding Margaret at all.
the one in the right is actively celebrating the capitalistic system in her life.
Because none have intersected each other. Thus no solidarity is being formed. Margaret hasn’t been able to retrospect the theft tho Boss extracts for her, or how she is stealing from others too, by working for him. She is a victim of capitalism, and Beatrice isn’t intersecting her out of those thefts.
one on the left sees it as an inconvenience in her life.
This is the thesis of neoliberal praxis: It should never be an inconvenience to intersect, solidify, and mutual aid with friends. Beatrice should be delighted her friend came to her at the time of need, and be able to help her fulfill her friend. This precisely why we see this as neolib propaganda and nothing related to anarchy: no rulers, no hierarchy.
I am starting to doubt the need to assume goodwill here.
You are blaming Beatrice for having to survive under capitalism. she describes what she does for her community, including using her skills (sowing) to give her community free clothes. That can be interpreted as Mutual Aid. Yet you blame her for having a job? she is a neoliberal because she has bills? because she does not rely on her community for all her needs? Are you fucking joking?
Point me where I can do that? Where I can go and live with a community where I can cover all my needs with said community? Rent, food, energy, medicine?
