What is an “anti-capitalist” organization doing selling apparel, anyway?
A transition to life after capitalism, patriarchy, and all the oppressive social relations they entail is not possible without people doing things differently. But doing things differently entails involvement in things which appear capitalist “on the surface”—such as entering a marketplace of goods. We think eschewing profit for personal gain and using all the money we make for community projects is one way to be anti-capitalist in practice, to divert money from “the system” into an alternative social economy. We are “anti-capitalist,” but to us, that means living with certain contradictions in practice. There is never a clean break from the old system. A new way of doing things always “grows out of” the old way. We’re pretty tired with that constant argument over which techniques are “revolutionary” and which aren’t, because there can never be a definitive answer about what works “against” the system. We’d like to hear your ideas. thoughtcrime ink is a registered “non-profit corporati
