I think I'm reverting a bit into some misanthropic and nihilistic tendencies, but at this point I feel like I don't even care about bad things happening to cis people. Everything feels worse for trans people, and I spend a lot of time helping other trans people with problems caused by shitty cis people. I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib 'accepting' ones. I'm like 60% of the way to thinking 'yeah I'm gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I'll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord'. I have the possibility of actually doing this. I doubt we're having a revolution, so like... isn't this an equalizer? There's also the fact that trans people basically have no familial support, being a landlord exploiting cis people would mean we are forcing society to actually support those without it. I could see alternative arguments, like maybe if you have access to a lot of housing you could just make cheap housing for trans people and that would foster a whole community rather than having a lot of depressed cis people slaving away for a handful of homeless trans people, idk. You'd probably have to deal with anti-discrimination laws with that scheme, whereas giving housing away for free to trans people can be contractless.
Obviously I'm a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren't in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism? Talking to them won't work either when they see you as a freak from the start.
I organize every day as a result of housing trans people incl with some people here. The reality is the situation is dire for trans people, "organizing" is hopeless. Moving somewhere else is hilarious to me, you don't even live in the same world. Trans people are rejected from homeless shelters here they usually die when they get kicked out, this is particularly true for black trans women. This is genuinely the only way I can think of handling the logistics for housing enough to sate the demand caused by cis psychoes torturing their kids. Write your idealistic polemics all you want, the reality is any delay ("organizing") means more dead trans people. This is all a hypothetical anyways, I need to talk with some trans people I know in finance to come up with some scheme to expand this in a less shit way, I mostly wanted to hear from trans people on the absolute worst case scenario (being the worst person ever on purpose to house trans people in a linear growth sort of way). But I was hoping for more of a Marxian analysis (e.g. I want numbers for why this won't work) not just people posting tenants of communism 101 theory slop.
It's cheaper to move than be a slumlord
Marx was a lib for measuring bundles of linen
book worship and number worship. Numerical arguments are great, but placing such emphasis on finding a numerical argument to a moral question is lib behavior. I think measuring bundles of linen was about studying the minutiae of capital, not to find out whether or not the factory owner is a good person
You need to help build the organs for a revolutionary body to overthrow the system that's putting our trans siblings into the streets. Just helping people by working to address their immediate concerns is good and noble but it will suck you dry and leave you wondering what the point even was. This isn't some polemic, it's something I've found through practice.
I can't give you a Marxist analysis on why you would feel misanthropic except to say that trying to address the effects of capitalism while not addressing the root cause will put you into a nihilistic death spiral. You need to build a revolutionary organization and party with a vision for the future in order to be able to embrace a sense of optimism and hopefulness. I mean this seriously. If you're not practicing towards an optimistic future on a truly meaningful scale to you, then you won't be happy or feel dignified; or atleast I don't.
Idk what to do either here tbh I work in this field too and sometimes I just have to do normal community stuff to drown the depression out. I feel the comments have been far too harsh to marcie it's depressing. Revolutionary organ stuff is too high level and nonexistent. I've just learned to be sadly ok with how awful things are but I've helped x people and that's enough I guess
I don't think there's a way to expand on my side generally kinda wild we've helped as many as we did.
I feel like no one here is really in the trenches when it comes to this and that's why we're seeing such a reaction to what she's saying. I think everyone that's been homeless or operates a commune of some kind has had to look at the financials and cry about the abject injustice of it all. I get wanting to show up at everyone's door and extracting a warlord's tax to solve the issue.
Is there away to create some connection between your neighbours and your commune? Similar initiatives in my area host weekly events, like dinner or music where they ask for donations to sustain themselves. Aside from the money they gain, the connection with the neighbourhood functions as a security layer. It also creates a breeding pot for more political organizing.
I do an lgbt center and frankly it only really exists at the behest of one rich gay that wanted a center closer. So marcie isn't wrong that you basically need a sugar daddy who likely has no qualms about exploitation. Neighbors here are kinda dicks and bother us about any minuscule infraction
Guy doesn't really care about my housing projects much he just likes talking with other gays, I basically just control the project and give him charity write off receipts.
The centers in my area are for undocumented and homeless people and they have had to struggle a lot in the beginning with neighbours who did not want a center for homeless and documented people next to their house. The community events had a big impact on the overall opinion of their neighbours and now they have almost no issues with neighbours and get lots of donations.
We had a pretty successful Halloween party but we weren't able to really translate that into doing good shit for homeless people.
I've housed people temporarily in our lgbt center but the cops usually get called on them so it's not really safe to do that there. I'm pretty sure the neighboring business just is homophobic. And yeah my own place is filled with trans people that can only really get gig work, I'm basically an outlier for working the same job for decades.