Class and Oppression – an injury to one is an injury to all!
Most people face other kinds of exploitation than just class. For example women get paid less, and do far more unpaid work as well. [1][2] Black people are often “last hired, first fired” and face racist bullying and harassment at work. [3] This isn’t just about prejudice or people being mean. It’s economic – some […]
ADHD, Capitalism, and Disability Activism
It seems like every couple months, the ADHD community on twitter has another phase debating capitalism and ADHD. How many of our problems are caused by capitalism, and how many are just a medical condition that will never go away? This tends to end badly, with polarisation and over-simplification on all sides. But if we […]
How to Change the World
What does it mean to change the world? Where do we start? How do we get masses of people to wake up and rise up? Sometimes it feels impossible. People vote for parties who openly attack their interests. Most of the time only a handful will join protest marches or do anything more militant. The […]
The Market is not Enough!
Market Anarchism is the idea we can replace capitalism with a reformed “free market”, to better meet human needs. [1] It mostly died out at the end of the 19th century, replaced by Anarchist Communism. [2] Market Anarchism is now gaining momentum again, but the arguments against it are often stuck in the 19th century, […]