#like i've had a LOT of interaction with people who want a self-sustaining anarchist anti-capitalist future of some kind

[arosnowflake]

Okay so I readily acknowledge that I know jack shit about politics/how to run a community or society/whatever, and I don’t generally like to get involved with that for this reason, but I hope your self-sustained anti-capitalist anarchist future vision contains some kind of method for caring for those who cannot care for themselves other than just ‘the community will do it!’ because I promise you they won’t. Or at least they won’t do it well. If I can’t get people to listen to the fact that I can’t garden now, when there is no real reason for me to be gardening, they sure as fuck aren’t gonna listen to me in a solarpunk future. 

Some people need synthesized medication that you cannot replace with herbal meds or be synthesized outside of a lab. Some people need 24/7 care that only specialized workers can provide. Some people need care that the average person is not equipped or trained to handle. Some people will physically not be able to handle living in a self-sustained fashion without outside help. Some people will simply forever be the weird one out, the one that everyone avoids because they have tics or they stim or they talk weirdly or not at all or they see things that aren’t there or for a variety of reasons, and when they start flagging, they community is just as likely (if not more likely) to ignore them as they are to help them. Disabled people aren’t gonna disappear just bc capitalism did.

So unless you want all disabled people to go extinct in your new utopia, you’re gonna have to plan around that, and until I see someone discuss this in depth, I’m not gonna be very down with whatever future vision you got.