Problems of care distribution within a political group. Who takes care of others while some play the role of strategists and theorists (and a self-critique)? More broadly, who takes care of others on the ground while certain groups (often reformist, incidentally) play the role of interlocutors with the police and the media? Example: the occupation of the Maison du Peuple, when we were doing night shifts and providing support for homeless people. Tell the story of this struggle in an article.
Revisit the revolutionary syndicalist strategy of the double task from the perspective of materialist feminism.
Moral Boundaries in activism.
Revisit Tronto’s three dimensions extensively. Show some of the dead ends of activism, how roles reproduce themselves, and therefore why political action begins by addressing the distribution of tasks before the supposedly “political” questions of grand strategy.
On the other hand, when the association becomes autonomous and turns into an end in itself; when we start talking about what needs to be done as if it were a job; when we put personal relationships in the background.
Through what events are activists transformed? When it is a matter of the suffering of others that they must concretely and materially help with, rather than an abstract revolution: not five-hour-long meetings, not bureaucrats.
Struggles in the camps, encounters. The starting point of political struggle. Some positive experiences of activism and other forms of political engagement. Marx’s idea of association.
“The first time I met the psychiatric…”
Institutions, Frantz Fanon, Ivan Illich.
Change institutions, but also deinstitutionalize our practices.
Communism, care and neurodiversity.
But simply, one cannot even think properly while locked inside one’s hut.
Must talk about freedom in Bakunin.