Danijel BukvasevicApr 5, 2025

A warning to fellow anarchists about the Center for a Stateless Society

It is difficult to call oneself an anarchist today when an anarchist organization C4SS offers financial compensation lower than the market. What they are proposing for translation work is the equivalent of an employer offering $0,50 per hour, which, at 176 hours a month, amounts to a pitiful $88.

Let’s be clear. This is not mutualism. This is not market anarchism. This is exploitation wrapped in radical rhetoric.

Show threadDanijel Bukvasevic
C4SS offer up to 10–25 per article, meaning potential collaborator could earn as little as 40-100 monthly for 4 articles. Meanwhile, standard translation rates range from 0,05-0,50 per word. A 1,000-word article at 0.05/word = $50, yet Center for a Stateless Society offer to pay a flat rate regardless of length - meaning a 10,000-word piece earns the same as a 1,000-word one. While the organization cites a "tight budget" to justify these poverty rates, it provides no financial transparency.
Apr 5, 2025 at 6:21amWeb
Show threadDanijel BukvasevicApr 5, 2025
Even the most exploitative companies I’ve worked for paid better than this. At least they provided a livable monthly wage. The Center for a Stateless Society expects anarchist translators - many of whom are already struggling - to work for crumbs while they expand their ideological reach. If you claim to be mutualists than pay workers the full value of their labor. Otherwise, you are not building an alternative, you are cosplaying radicalism while replicating capitalist wage theft.
Show threadDanijel BukvasevicApr 5, 2025
The fact that the Center for a Stateless Society openly proposes these exploitative rates to potential collaborators reveals either a fundamental ignorance of labor value or a blatant disregard for worker dignity. If mutualism means workers receiving the full value of their labor, then this compensation structure isn’t just hypocritical, it’s indefensible.