:cool-zone: end this fucking blight of a country. love and power to the people who head out to protest tonight.
don't watch this if you value your sanity.
:cool-zone: end this fucking blight of a country. love and power to the people who head out to protest tonight.
don't watch this if you value your sanity.
Remember that there are degrees of economic detachment that we can achieve, and any reason to further detach is a good one.
detached how, exactly?
I have a whole zine I need to write about this.
Someone who lives off the government dole provides much less fuel for the fire, and arguably even is a net reduction in resources of the capitalist colossus, compared to someone who puts full-time labor into employment and pays taxes accordingly. Better yet is someone whose entire personal economic environment is informal economies where no taxes are paid whatsoever.
Dropping out is not necessarily a good idea, but if you can, figure out how to maximize the benefits you can get as a citizen of the empire, while minimizing how much you have to buy and spend to live well.
It is not illegal to be a homesteader, and it is hard to imagine an America where it is. Even though capital cannot squeeze profits out of homesteaders, it relies heavily on the framework that makes them possible, and also draws on them ideologically.
If we can become a movement of collective homesteaders (a fancy, mask-on way of saying we form communes), we can exercise a lot more power than we currently do. Many of our limitations get their restrictive power from the way we are compelled to do everything individually. Escaping the compulsion of individualism means you can do a lot of economic "hacking". I hold that revolutions succeed not merely due to heightened contradictions, but because of revolutionaries who have prepared and positioned themselves well.
I await your effort post
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What does being a homesteader mean? Don't you need to own land for that?
It’s not illegal, you just need a metric ton of knowledge and resources ($$$)
It means you have some sort of either self-sufficiency or direct production for use coming from where you live.
Yes, you do need to own land for this. There are parts of the country where a prole working full-time can build up enough savings in a few years to buy a house and/or land. For every place that's not an ultra-expensive city, two proles sharing a 2br and working full-time can do this.
Ideally one would want just land, less than an hour's bike ride from a reasonable-sized town, and to build structures on it- perhaps one conspicuous unit and many inconspicuous units.