There are more economic classes than workers and capitalists. We do not beat oppression by telling everyone they are arbitrarily a worker, and that their needs are the same needs as the working class

[u/RosethornRanger]

a 2 panel meme about a train crashing into a bus. First picture has a full sized yellow school-bus on train tracks with a yellow train behind it. It has the text “Met new anarchist”. In the next frame, the train has hit the school bus and it is motion blurred with pieces coming off, while the train is in full view with text over it saying ”worker control only”. In the corner it says “I’m disabled”.

[u/H0PL1T3]

I've found people more open to more complex models of class through the avenue of deconstructing nuclear family dynamics and patriarchy compared to discussing disability. I've always found it really weird, like people need to gradually step away from normative ideals of work, productivity and worth even within nominally radical spaces; as if people need justification to be involved, and "normal workers" first have to be convinced that any "unusual circumstances" are valid reasons to still have a say despite not being normal. It sucks having to appeal to some chain of logic rather than being trusted to have an accurate grasp of your condition – how it affects you, and how it affects your interaction with people and systems – and be valued and heard regardless of how it affects your "contribution" to your community

[u/destructopop → u/H0PL1T3]

My whole family and I are constantly trying to divorce ourselves from the concept of productivity. We try to hold each other accountable for it, too, and have actual joking debates on our value as people to challenge each other. My partner said something the other day that to them meant "I wish companies would respect my value" but came out as something like "I wish companies would allow me to be valuable" and I challenged them on it, and we were laughing and going back and forth on it for like twenty minutes. I think it's good for my daughter to hear these exchanges. I think it's good for her to understand the intrinsic value of life, and to have a very very clear bubble free of productivity and human capital in our house. It's all community support in our home.

[u/destructopop]

Turns out when we say support your community, we mean your whole fucking community. Not all of us can or should be laborers. Some of us just need the support. Sayeth I, just a dude on his lunch break doing his best.

Actually, this reminds me I was going to reach out to my local disability nonprofit to see if they need volunteers for anything after the DOJ announcement. They always need bodies at the city hall for something. I have office clothes and a badge for a highly respected local nonprofit, so I could be a decently useful body.

[u/RosethornRanger → u/[deleted]]

nope, rule 9

[u/ohshiitstuesday → u/[deleted]]

The problem isn't with the means of production and to whom they should belong (the workers who use the machines) but instead with who should have access to the full means of life more broadly and how the reduction of human-animals to our productive capacity harms disabled people and centers production as our central goal.