Being alienated from the products of my labor makes me sad, being trapped in a 400sq ft apartment with no room for activities makes me sad, trying to figure out how to get some property to get out of here without being in debt to the bank for three decades makes me sad, giving a shitload of money to my stupid landlord every month makes me sad, the earth melting tf down makes me sad. Damn, this capitalism shit sucks
I’ve been thinking about starting a community organization centered around a vertical farm. It wouldn’t be in the woods, but it would be there to provide free food to the community. I’m still looking into the logistics of the project so I don’t know exactly how it will work
I've thought about pursuing a similar path but I have no idea where to start.
The frustrating thing about this stuff is that it takes money. Vertical farming is especially capital-intensive, but if you have the scratch to spare, consider trying to get yourself incorporated as a nonprofit. Unless you plan on making more than 50k a year, you can just fill out the 1023 EZ which doesn't take very long at all, but it might take a bit of time to hear back from the IRS. Getting charitable status rules because then you can donate to yourself (completely legal to donate to your own nonprofit) to buy all the stuff you were going to buy anyway, and then write it off your taxes. Anyone who donates to you can write it off their taxes too.
I know tax writeoffs are petit bourgeois as shit, but in case it made a difference for you, putting it forward anyway.
I hear you comrade, that is my dream as well! Its unfortunate that alot of the u.s communes, at least the ones I've read about have some weird cultism or power hierarchy.
Like I feel that every day I go to work how i would much rather work a sustainable life with a group of comrades.
Honestly the only way to get something like that going with even a snowball's chance at success is if you first import rocket launchers from Russia/China
I seriously consider giving up on everything and joining a lesbian separatist community at least once a week.
I've been getting into agroecology for that reason, I just want to farm and carve abstract wonders and horrors from smooth stone.
Ain't that a mood and a fuckin' half? Return to the trees, join our cool anarcho-commune (once we find a place to land)!
Sounds beautiful my friend. The best way is to start small! Even just growing some potatoes in a bucket and donating them to food banks or giving them out yourself is big praxis.
Corona must have killed lots of rich people from the suburbs. Try to find an empty house, pretend you inherited it and turn it into a homestead. If you are withie it might work.
There's just something dystopic about cities, especially apartments to me. It's like you're surrounded by people, but it's too many to know or something. It's like an awkward isolation while being surrounded by people. I'm not articulating this well, but it was the impression I had.
there may be one that exists near you, try checking out this site https://www.ic.org/
this album saved my life ~2005
In retrospect, thanks for nothing, album
I think about this too. But I also think that no matter where we go, there's no outrunning this system that's been built for us. There's no outrunning global warming and no escaping the neoliberal capitslist world order. Like a shambing zombie, it will catch you eventually.
Just ask the hippies from the 60's, the indigenous American peoples, or even the charming folks in Waco for that matter. This entire system is built around exploiting the periphery and stamping out all alternatives.
And whether we want it or not we have mutual obligations to each other. It is our duty to stand and fight in our time. If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
Same. It’s part of my 10 year plan. The virus got my wife on board with the plan, we are just looking for a place where we could get a lot of acres for cheap and just put up a bunch of little houses and a communal building for meals and stuff. We were thinking somewhere like Joshua Tree or somewhere with a forest that isn’t constantly in danger of wild fires.
God, that's my dream. Just need to convince the partner though. I don't want my kids growing up in this capitalist hellscape
