Axiom q. Anarchy is not about the worker. Most people don’t like work. Why would we want to organize our lives and our politics around something we usually try to avoid? Workers’ collectives are good in that they try as much as possible to remove the oppressive relationship inherent within the capitalist conceptualization of work. But the products people make, or the services they offer still have to slot themselves into the capitalist system. Forget that. Anarchy is about not working for other people at all. It is about working for yourself. And I don’t mean self-employment in the tax collectors’ definition. What I mean is, working on your own garden so that you can feed yourself, working on your own artwork, videos, websites or writing so that you can express yourself, working on building your own collective home so that you can house yourself, working on relationships and learning things that are relevant to your life, working on your sexuality so that you can please yourself. Working for other people is no fun, and an identity based on the exploited role you play in sustaining capitalism is no identity at all. Fuck work. And read Bob Black. Anarchist theory has to move away from Marxist notions of the reified category of worker, and consider the possibilities of creating a world without poverty in a world without work.

— Seeing Past the Outpost of Post-Anarchism. Anarchy: Axiomatic [via]

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