Why we need a solidarity economy now
www.resilience.org
I’m convinced that the more people experience the humanizing benefits of direct connections and mutual support, the more bridges can be built in the future.We can learn by doing. As the saying goes, we can act our way into different ways of thinking more easily than we can think our way into new ways of acting.

As people across the United States face massive cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other vital programs, many are asking: What happens when the systems we rely on fail us? And what happens when our communities are torn apart by toxic inequality, political fragmentation and declining social trust?

The solution may lie in something that humans have been doing throughout our existence: taking care of each other, often without realizing it. Today that’s what some of us call the “solidarity economy.”

  • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    That’s why the right keeps pushing rhetoric against empathy. Empathy leads to solidarity, and solidarity leads to action.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      9 days ago

      They also aim to slay hope in a livable future, because hope allows us to imagine a world different/better than our current one. And to see just how thin the membrane is between that world and this grey, futureless one that they’ve constructed.