Let’s Imagine Better...
Communities Rooted in Care, Not Control
Imagine a world where children laugh freely, not in defiance, not as rebellion but because fear no longer has a home in them.
A world where no parent worries that their child’s skin, accent or heritage makes them unsafe.
Where elders teach through stories that ripple like water and power doesn’t sit in offices, it lives in connection.
Can you imagine that?
For many of us, especially those raised in white working-class Britain, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
We’re taught to survive extraction, to work harder, buy more or buy better and stay quiet.
But we were never meant to be this tired.
We were never meant to live lives that cost the Earth and each other.
Capitalism has convinced us that exhaustion is normal, that cruelty is necessary and that belonging is earned.
But what if belonging is our birthright?
What if community was never supposed to be competitive?
We are living through a spiritual emergency, one that asks us not just to dismantle oppression, but to reimagine everything that replaces it.
Matriarchal socialism isn’t a dream.
It’s a remembering.
It’s a return to care as the foundation of everything, how we teach, how we trade, how we tend to each other and to Mother Earth.
It asks us to see value not in profit, but in contribution.
To understand that when your labour uplifts another, it uplifts you too.
To accept that the womb, the soil and the spirit are all part of the same ecosystem, one that capitalism can’t survive, but humanity can.
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