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@aenea @scrappy_capy_distro

My pet theory is that the moral purity issues mentioned in the zine--ostracism as the only strategy for dealing with harm, absence of transformative justice, oppression olympics, no accommodations for workers and marginals etc.--are a form of overcompensation.

It overcompensates for lack of actual commitment to politics, i.e. the willingness to risk repression, personal harm to one's body, or even the scariest of all: Taking responsibility for communal things. It comes from a place of fearing that material safety, and let's be honest material abundance, is sacrosanct. "I'm so privileged and I'm still this depressed, if I was poor I'd probably just die"--not realising that the comfy individualist alienation is the cause of said depression.

A Kurd half my age once offered to take care of my children for an action that would take months, within *an hour* of first meeting me (a non-Kurd openly non-Apoist total stranger). Could I be a cop and get someone arrested? Sure, whatever. Berxwedan jiyan e.
I had to stop and think which of my queer anarchist comrades would offer taking up childcare responsibility to their most trusted friend, let alone to a new person, for the sake of advancing the society they believe in. I still have no answer for this question.