(1/2) From a comrade on FB:
To be an anarchist and organizer is to build up others. It's a process of pedagogy, empowering people around us with lessons from previous struggles so that we can collectively direct our struggles. If we look around our efforts, and find a burned out core of people doing a lot of work, and other people doing very little, this is indicative of a failure to organize as anarchists.
(2/2)
If an anarchist fights for someone else, but fails to at least offer to build up the other person's skills and confidence to contribute to the fight, then we are acting in a substitutionalist way, as a savior, and failing to live our politics. Anarchists are not here to liberate others. We are here, as workers and tenants and people, to struggle alongside our fellow workers, our neighbors, our fellow sufferers of oppression, and to learn and teach each other in mutual liberation.
derpayatz