I've had a half decent job for a few years now and my partner and I just got a mortgage and moved into a 3 bedroom house (a baby is on the way). I'm curious what you all think about me having a well paying job and owning property. I've had to accept that I'm invested in capitalism now because obviously I don't want to lose my home or have the property values go to shit so that I waste my 30-year investment. But at the same time I still see myself as an Anarchist.
Is there anyone else here entering their 30s and starting to fold into the system more and more as they age? How do you reconcile your anarchist beliefs with your increasingly establishment life? Can anarchists even really remain anarchists once on the property ladder, thoroughly invested in the markets to protect our capital? Is anarchism as a philosophy really reserved for the young and unattached, or those on the fringes of society?
kin wrote
To be fair if I had the chance to get a mortgage instead of paying rent I wouldn't think twice.. being poor is a fetish for many, if you ask any poor people they wouldn't think twice if they had a chance to improve their lives. And the majority of anarchists I crossed paths that were from a poor background never fetishized poverty either. (It's different from adhering to consumerism)
I don't think you are less of an anarchist bc you have a work, family or you are paying mortgage. But I would say that being an active consumer and being a landlord for example are out of anarchism. And always there is some shades to commitment levels.. I know people who are more anarchists not knowing a single word of anarchism than long time activists