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"Anarchist communities often value and revere “back to the land” attitudes. They fetishize a world..."

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“Anarchist communities often value and revere “back to the land” attitudes. They fetishize a world after the industrial collapse where we are all riding our bikes everywhere and growing our own food. But that’s not a world I can live in. As a person with a disability, I depend on technology to keep me alive. I depend on my hearing aid, and my mobility chair. I depend on my perscription (sic) drugs to keep my immune system from destroying my spine. I can’t afford to “fuck cars and ride my bike.” Anarchist communities who celebrate able bodies, have bonding and strategizing events in inaccessible locations, adopt mantras like “racism is a DISEASE” and “The revolution will not be motorized” are not welcoming or safe places for me. These ideas of what revolution mean are exclusive, and borrow heavily from eugenicist idealogy. They are rarely criticized, because PWDs (people with disabilities) are humiliated by dominant culture AND by most anarchist culture. It’s not a revolution unless everyone is invited.”

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Wren A.

THIS SO MUCH THIS

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(via affairofthepoisons)

This is basically the killer argument against primitivism - their ideology is really incompatible with having autonomous and mobile disabled people.

(caveat: my idea of revolution doesn’t require “everyone” to be invited, but “disabled people” is obv not an exclusion I want!)

wow this is a super fucking important point and not something that gets talked about nearly enough

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yooo and this applies to people who have serioud conditions that require medications like asthma or diabetes.

(via northeastdakota)

Also it excludes a number of trans people that desire physical changes to their body.

(via moshtomarx)

and the theoretical basis that drives this thought ignores class and other factors of ownership, wherein the problem isn’t the technology itself, but who controls the technology.

and given that this point of view tends to come from (but not exclusively etc) lower-middle to middle class cis and able bodied anarchists, who are already in a slightly higher position of control over this technology than differently abled people and trans people; I get the feeling that they unintentionally prioritize the destruction of technology just so that they don’t have to lose control of it themselves.

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All of this.  It also excludes people who are older and not as strong as they had been.  

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