"But do we feel responsible for one another? It's easy to step away when someone harms. It's easy to step away when someone isn't likable. It's easy to step away when capitalism tells us it can replace community."

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"At the same time, capitalism has conditioned us to believe that all work is capitalist, as if service is not a part of daily reality in a liberated world. I am often berated for using the word work because most people hear an ableist capitalist concept. But the problem isn't with work. Work is beautiful, it is necessary. Work looks different from person to person, not just in our abilities and skill sets but because our communities need different things. Our roles evolve with our communities, we are not meant to be stagnant and unmoved by the way that our worlds are evolving."

The second quote above addressed some of the gaps I've been wrestling with through this text. I appreciate thinking of "the work" or "the revolution" (like in my last forum share) towards collective liberation as being intersectional in the sense that there is space for everyone and anyone to contribute to it in their self-truths, if they're willing to challenge their complicity in assimilation. That there is space for needs and roles and especially leadership to change to keep work, movement, and momentums sustained.

Contemplating also: Does what we consider "work" contribute to community support, or does it only serve the paradigm of hyper-individuality? Do we reclaim work and survival in our actions, or do we surrender them fully to capitalism and its related systems of oppression?