Alternative infrastructure

no, there seems to have been a severe lack of ultras on this board (which is a good thing) ever since BO's R*java rule.

Well not entirely sure what ultras are but if they're the sad cunts that denounce everything as lifestyle then good, i guess.

Back to OP i definetly think this is one of the most important things we can do, physical infrastructure. Physical space is simply necessary for any real movement but the problem is the state will always make this as hard as they possibly can for us. Squats are a good bet if you live in a country that has squatters rights, etc.

I completely agree. For me a big problem with the left is it's financial poverty. Germany has a few organizations that will help groups buy land or businesses to run as co-operatives. I personally think it'd make all the difference if some leftists could make serious money and put it behind these kind of orgs that will open the way to build real infrastructure.

A kind of ambition of mine (but alas i am poor) is to build the infrastrucutre for radical digital space outside of google, fedbook, twitter, amazon and the other big 'cloud' networks, etc. This would look like community owned hosting for leftists and radicals with platforms for blogging, email, patron-esque digital begging and easy support page setup for campaigns and our arrested and imprisoned, etc. etc. Alas, i am poor.

I think you need to combine all these things, where you can collectivise work such as through co-ops, or even mutualise it if you are working on smaller level. Profits from co-ops can be used to directly communinise i.e. give away for free some things on a small scale such as food or education.

Some things such as old buildings or disused or disputed land can be directly expropriated and used for communal space, even housing.

At the same time you can push in electoral politics but you need the non electoral power base at the same time

Ugh. failing.

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The 'Freiräume network' is one example i was thinking of in regards to these groups who will buy land.
projektwerkstatt.de/index.php?domain_id=22 (DE. seems be fairly readable with machine translation)

That's where unions can help protect the co-ops. Capital always tries to destroy co-op competition, so to stop this the union can act as a counter measure to destroy the capitalist competition in turn. If Walmart moves in to out-compete your co-op grocer, unionize the Walmart workers to monkey wrench it out of business. Then, seize the abandoned Walmart for your co-op grocery chain.

Not at all viable in practice, since cooperative labor can't compete with slave labor in foreign countries. In practice it just leads to hipsters selling overpriced food to each other.

reality proves you wrong. there are worker co-ops that exist and function well even today.

Community effort. Press the local government into cooperating. It's easier than you think.