• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    Is there more to this? I could generously interpret it as Colleen saying that we need to consider the needs of disabled people, and that door-dast is not capitalism successfully accomodating disabled people. ie agreeing with Khanate’s point

    Nope she’s just an asshole. Lot of people showing their whole asses, actually. The “Actually disabled people shouldn’t get food delivery services” crowd is bigger than I expected, which is to say I did not expect to see anyone claiming to be on the left argue that food delivery to disabled people, in itself, is bad. Gig economy? Bad. But lots of people need food delivered. Does Meals on Wheels still exist?

    • Helmic [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      yeah unfortunately it’s extremely easy to come to a reductionist conclusion that because someone - even a disabled person that’s just kinda lib - said something that utterly dismisses the welfare of workers that then that means the literal words used are meaningless and bourgoise. food delivery - whether that be by shitty corporations charging an obscene surchrage, defunded programs like meals on wheels, or preferably you motherfuckers reading this right now constantly talking about how there’s no praxis for you to do getting on a fucking bike - is going to be part of a much larger structure of care for everyone, and relying on a strict medicalist definition of “disabled” through diagnosis will make shit much worse. make sure your neighbors are actually eating, even the ones you really don’t fucking like, because people don’t deserve to live or die based on whether you personally get along with them, and creating the dual power structures that enable everyone to continue existing as the US continues to crumble apart is going to be vital to any attempt at revolution.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        reating the dual power structures that enable everyone to continue existing as the US continues to crumble apart is going to be vital to any attempt at revolution.

        Word. This is in one sentence why I’m increasingly sympathetic to Anarchist tactics and theory right now. I believe you need a state to fight a state, but I think it’s very likely that states as we know them are going to collapse under the weight of capitalism and global warming, and you can’t do an ML style takeover of a state that doesn’t exist or barely exists, doubly so if the world economy collapses rendering most functions of states superfluous. You could do Anarchism in pre-industrial society, but I’m not sure you can do ML style Communism, so I’m not sure 20th century ML communism will be viable under 21st century global warming induced post-industrial, or at least very disrupted industrial, conditions.