Alex Cendre 🌋 @alxcndr@mastodon.social

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Under Capitalism a good has an use value (how useful it is?) and an exchange value (how much charge for it?).

Do you have any examples where the use value is in conflict with the exchange value? That is, something useful but not profitable?

When you know you can be unemployed because your lost wage is taken care of, you can fight your Boss.
When you know you can get sick and not loose income, you're less stressed.

Systemic solidarity improves the agency of the people involved.

And that's why every union should have a strike fund IMO. 😉

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What I call systemic solidarity is a system that enforces solidarity.
It can be an insurance to provide you with proper health care. It can be an allowance when you're disabled, sick, or unemployed.

The thing is, systems are more powerful than interpersonal bonds. Systems shape society, the way people live their lives, and ultimately shape the way we approach problems.

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Solidarity can be divided into two categories: charity and systemic solidarity.

Charity is quite simple, this is an interpersonal act. You need something? I provide you with it.
But charity is not systemic. You don't have any guarantee someone will provide for you.
However, charity might strengthen the bonds between the parties involved.

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Yesterday I went to the union's general assembly.
There was a discussion about the purpose of a strike fund.
Someone argued that anarcho-syndicalism value solidarity and a strike fund would be more an insurance rather than solidarity.

The following thread will explain my thoughts on this.

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