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What we’re about

We’re not here to LARP the revolution or quote Das Kapital at each other. We’re here because the world’s falling apart and nobody’s coming to save us — so we might as well build something better ourselves.

This isn’t the kind of socialism that dreams of five-year plans or gray concrete utopias. It’s the kind that grows out of the dirt — in kitchens, in workshops, in half-legal co-ops and shared Wi-Fi networks. It’s the kind that says: yeah, capitalism sucks — but maybe we can use its tools to tear down its walls.

We believe in small, human systems — in communities over corporations, creativity over control, and cooperation without hierarchy. We’re influenced by David Graeber’s anarchist anthropology, Mark Fisher’s haunted optimism, bell hooks’ radical love, and the street-level pragmatism of people who’ve actually worked a double shift.

We meet to talk, to build, to share food, and to imagine what liberation could look like in a city where landlords, algorithms, and venture capital all think they own the future.

If that sounds like home — welcome. Grab a beer, bring an idea, and let’s start digging our way out together.

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