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A practical pathway to the goal of abolishing forced work would be fighting zoning legislation in our countries

Having thought about it for awhile. This seems a pretty practical pathway to abolishing the coercive mechanisms of the state which force people to only be able to survive through capitalist mechanisms. In fighting these laws we should aim to create the freedom to allow non-capitalist lifestyles to flourish and take away the power of the police to control what people choose to do with their bodies by removing them from shelters they choose to be in on the premise of it being “unsafe” (Not meeting Capitalist standards). The goal is to foster independence and breathing room for people to survive without working + living the way capitalist governments and their backers want you to. It would be tremendously helpful to anyone at risk of losing their jobs, facing domestic violence or are neurodiverse and unemployed to have the freedom to survive without harassment from cops. In every country these…


Having thought about it for awhile. This seems a pretty practical pathway to abolishing the coercive mechanisms of the state which force people to only be able to survive through capitalist mechanisms.

In fighting these laws we should aim to create the freedom to allow non-capitalist lifestyles to flourish and take away the power of the police to control what people choose to do with their bodies by removing them from shelters they choose to be in on the premise of it being “unsafe” (Not meeting Capitalist standards).

The goal is to foster independence and breathing room for people to survive without working + living the way capitalist governments and their backers want you to. It would be tremendously helpful to anyone at risk of losing their jobs, facing domestic violence or are neurodiverse and unemployed to have the freedom to survive without harassment from cops.

In every country these are the laws we must challenge. Could start by calling out their illegitimacy, constraints on individual freedom and how nonsensical they are.

Alot of them were also used in colonialism by colonisers wanting to liquidate certain groups of people on basis of them having lifestyles or cultures that were seen as “Not up to standard” (“Inferior”). Colonialism did many things to people that it saw as “Protecting inferior people from themselves for their own good.” too and this is one aspect if it that still seems to not have been removed in most countries. This pretext was also used by cops to remove native children from their families too on pretext of their environment being “Not safe for a child”.

Zoning legislation is one of the main coercive mechanisms used in conjunction with vagrancy legislation often times.

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