Manifesto, Profit for Survival: Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices

Manifesto, Profit for Survival: Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices is the third edition of this ongoing publication series that explores anti-capitalism from the publisher's perspective.

This new edition features a new essay, Notes on Anti-Capitalist Solidarity: An Essay for the Working Class Artist, expanding on our Manifesto, Profit for Survival essay. This latest essay explores chapters including Class Solidarity in the Art World, Against Growth Towards Sustainability, Breaking with Capitalism: Identity Politics and Working Class Solidarity, and Anti-Capitalist Pedagogy. Pedagogy for Low Wage Workers? and Anti Capitalist Art Practice? From the essay:

"Many working class and low-income designers, artists, writers, etc. are underpaid, overworked, and constantly stuck in the loop of working one underpaid job after another. In this, we must find strength, solidarity, and pride in our positions as lower-income people. Often, or at least in my experience, the art world was presented to me at a young age as glamorous, privileged, and near the upper class. In moving towards an anti-capitalist art world, we must identify and find agency in our positions as low and middle-class people. Those employed through our creative talents must find solidarity with non-creative workers, including factory workers, gig employees, and other working-class people. We must not consider our profession more important than other workers fighting for more equitable working conditions. We must replace wealth for ethics, glamor for pride, privileged access for transparency, as the aspirational goals of artists.”