Memes

In order for an uprising to be long-lasting and survivable, it needs to be supplied, sustained and coordinated by dense mutual aid networks. Every participant needs to be clothed, fed, sheltered, trained, cared for and organized. The supplies and knowledge you need to do that, the institutionalized capacity, are the products of relationships. The big reason we currently have such a hard time helping each other is that all the relationships of production that have traditionally sustained human life, have been parisitized by capital. Rather than going down to see the medicine woman, we sell our labor to a boss for a wage, and use that wage to purchase medicine made by people who are doing the same thing to afford food and housing.

Essentially, the web of productive human relationships that make up society have been broken and reformed into a one-way connection between individuals and capital. Rather than a resilient web, we are each points on a wheel, with spokes that go inwards to capital and touch nothing else. All relationships have been subsumed in this way, all goods and services have been monetized, which makes it terrifyingly easy to cut off anyone by cutting off their relationships to capital (which is what every homeless person has experienced: banishment by lack of money).

The first necessary step in creating a movement capable of overthrowing capitlaism is to re-establish these old relationships, no matter how small or casual they may be at first. These tentative connections are like neurons that can later direct and support the development of true muscle. Start socialist groups in your community based around causes and/or skills, make connections with other groups, agitate for causes together, weave your organization into the greater musculature of proletarian power and self-suffieciency. The gardening/foraging club you start today will teach the revolutionaries of tomorrow how to feed themselves without a grocery store, and when you repeat that with everything, when you couple it with strong unions in a position to seize control of more complex production, you have something massive and organic that is beginning to detach itself from capitalist control.

And definitely learn to defend yourself. You don't need to be John Wick, but if every member of a 10 person group becomes 5% less fuckwtihable, the whole group is 50% less fuckwithable.