“Libraries distribute books to people on the principle “to each according to need.” In a library, if a book is already checked out, the person wanting the book is placed on a waiting list. Books are rationed on the deeply egalitarian principle that a day in every person’s life is of equal value. A well-resourced library will then use the length of the waiting list as an indicator of the need to order more copies of a book. Libraries often also distribute other important resources: music, videos, access to computers, tools, toys, meeting rooms and, in some libraries, performance spaces. Libraries thus constitute a mechanism of distribution that embodies the egalitarian ideal of giving everyone equal access to the resources needed for a flourishing life. In a democratic socialist economy, there would be an expansion of nonmarket, library-like ways of giving people access to many resources.”

— Erik Olin Wright, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
(via probablyasocialecologist)

gender neutrients

must we live in squalor

everyone. free yourselves.

but does anyone notice.....but does anyone care...