I’m Azad, or Comrade Azad.
I live nowhere and everywhere. Everything I own, including pillow and blanket, fits in 2 duffel bags. I’m recognized as a refugee by the United Nations/UNHCR. I don’t have asylum in any country yet, so I’m forced to travel frequently. I’m currently in Colombia (which feels most like home to me, but I’m open to going almost anywhere).
My experience living in formal communities in the US was that of blatant racism/white supremacy. The communities pretended to be anti-racist while upholding liberal white supremacy and colorblind racism. The only POC accepted are those who’ve conformed to liberal white supremacist culture, who remain happy, docile, and pacified in the face of injustice and overt fascism on the march, who take an amerika first approach/are pro-imperialism, and who generally have the mindset of those Malcolm X referred to as house slaves (who work against the interests of the field slaves). If you’re a POC who has conformed to Euro/white culture, they want you there, but if your life experience has left you truly angry at injustice, if you are seriously upset at the destruction of our Earth, if you’re fearful of the next mass genocides on that land, and you’re seriously seeking to bring about organization to combat those things, you’re far too much for their white sensibilities. I was seriously told to not tell people about my story of having my human rights violated by the US regime because it might upset (white) people.
My understanding informs me that in imperialist countries, intentional communities along with economic development projects are the correct strategy for those serious about changing the world. They allow you to minimize your contribution in labor and buying power to the local/imperialist/war machine economy, and to maximize the reparations raised to give back strategically to global victims of imperialism.
The “big” ICs in the US are very imperfect (mismanaged/misled) models of what is needed. With proper leadership these communities could have already done a massive amount of great work for humanity on the path to global equality and sustainable lifestyles. Millions of dollars of needless/unused things laying around these places could have saved countless lives and heavily empowered communities in non-imperialist countries. Far more can be done with the correct business models, culture, and leadership in place (leadership in terms of the ideas people are led by, and those who best articulate those ideas, thus emerge as leaders/spokespeople for those ideas).
I’m looking for an anti-imperialist community. A community that produces goods in the countryside, but also sells those goods and has representation/businesses/food trucks in urban areas (with members rotating to work in the businesses and back at the farm).
Other than vision, I have some means to help start this community (access to rural land and some/not enough start-up capital), but am lacking other fit people with good work ethic in the US that could make it real.
I speak Spanish, and to a much lesser degree Farsi and Thai. I have advanced knowledge on the subjects of: economics, philosophy, world history, military/self-defense strategy, health/fitness/nutrition, evolutionary biology, sociology, psychology, roots reggae, audio/video production, computer repair, cooking, health code/sanitation/restaurant management, outdoor survival skills, and more.
I’m a serious hiker/long-distance walker (urban and rural). I’m regularly in the top 1% of steps on Samsung Health. I’d love to use that physical energy towards working on anti-imperialist projects.
I’m also available to help coach communities out of their racism and support of imperialism.
My name is Nils.