Rebuilding communities
The video Constructing the Revolution talks about how to start prefiguring the future you want today.
(Heads up: the middle section of the video gets into some pretty heavy territory.)
Early on, there’s some important conversation about rebuilding and repairing communities that have been shattered by a system that deliberately pits us against one another.
All hierarchies of power desire to keep us separate, competing, and individualistic, because because we’re easier to exploit that way.
Dismiss the idea that your task is only to build councils of like-minded individuals. You have to start from a presumption that those around you are salvageable, until the time comes that they prove to you that they’re not.
It’s by this rebuilding of our shattered communities that we might rediscover solidarity with our fellow humans.
I’ve definitely noticed how much the last few years have really intensified this tendency.
There’s been so much fuckery from so many people for so long that I’m quick to cut people off, and have a very low tolerance for anyone still holding conservative values.
But that’s exactly what the rich and powerful want.
This was a good reminder that the kind of anarchist community I want to live in has people with lots of different beliefs and values, and so long as they don’t infringe on other peoples’ right to a rich and fulfilling life, that’s not just OK, but desirable.