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[-] quill7513@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 day ago

Farmer's markets, co-ops, and mutual aid all exist as forms of resistance to capitalism purely by making sure your dollars go to people within your community rather than get captured by the modern company store through Wal-Mart or Target. At the same time though, they are also not everything. It's a whole thing. Nothing anywhere is or can be perfect. The best we can do is the best we can do. I know that sounds like a thought terminating cliche but sometimes it's important to set aside the things you can't control and to focus on the things you can and have faith that the more people that do that the easier it will become to resist the horrors that surround us all

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago

How is a farmers market a resistance to capitalism? It's in the very sprit of capitalism to increase efficiency and remove the middle man

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

capitalism is a way of organizing society such that the means of production are owned by private interest, and the working class is employed by the owners to produce goods. a farmer working their own land is not actung as a capitalist.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 points 11 hours ago

A farmer farming their land and sell it is absolutely participating in capitalism and moreso if they hired farm labor.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

if they have hired labor, that does change the analysis, but selling the product of your own labor is not capitalism.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

Increasing efficiency isn't capitalism; letting those with capital decide is capitalism. If you exclude capital and just do the thing directly, you're resisting capitalism.

[-] quill7513@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 day ago

most farmer's markets where i am have a heavy emphasis on community building and resiliency as well as income stabilization for vulnerable people with the bank's sword of Domacles hanging over them. of the three i mentioned, they are the weakest form of resistance but they still have a role to play, which is why Granges put so much work into making sure they are available to non members of the grange

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