Joscelyn Transpiring on Nostr: also, there's this attitude from middle class folks in activist scenes like they are ...

also, there's this attitude from middle class folks in activist scenes like they are there to educate poor and working class folks, rather than learn from or with them. As if they already have the better knowledge and politics and anarchism or socialism is only accessible if you read their books - because middle class kids are so inexperienced with the world outside neoloberalism they had trouble imagining otherwise.

Meanwhile, poor folks have always been organizing in anarchistic modes through mutual aid and more. Whether it was figuring out rides and carpooling when my friends and i were too poor to have cars or transportation, sharing food and resources when shit hits the fan, or always making space for someone in need to crash on the coach, we lived mutual aid. And we also tend to live outside of the racially and ethnically segregated middle class neighborhoods, growing up together.