WASH YOUR OWN DISHES via CrimethInc
CAPITALISM
You wash the dishes, the ones who own them profit.
ANARCHISM
We all share in the dishwashing.DEMOCRACY
Even as a dishwasher, you deserve a say in which politician is best suited to protect the economy that keeps you in the kitchen.NATIONALISM
Forget about those dishes for a second — you’re a citizen of the proudest hation on earth!LIBERTARIANISM
You wash the dishes, the owner profits even more.FASCISM
The Mexicans who washed the dishes are deported, the Jews who owned the place are imprisoned, and everyone else is conscripted for military service.UNEMPLOYMENT
The only thing worse than being trapped in a dish room is being trapped outside one.NEO-LIBERALISM (AKA “Free Trade”)
The dishes are shipped overseas to be washed and you’re free to develop your own combination of Unemployment and NationalismREFORM
Smaller stack, warmer water, longer breaks –same dishes!SOCIALISM
Dishwashers’ wages increase just enough to afford higher takesCOMMUNISM
From each according to his means, to each according to his need –as determined outside the dish room.MARXISM
Between shifts, the dishwasher studies the intricacies of dialectical materialism. It turns out that thanks to his efforts, the dirty dishes have been accumulating value for his boss to invest in more dishes. The stuff about the dictatorship of the proletariat is more perplexing, but the party theorists reassure him that it makes perfect sense to them. Under their direction, he joins his fellow dishwashers in a risky coup d’etat. Afterwards, he is distraught to find himself still in the kitchen, washing dishes for the party bureaucrats. The bureaucrats reassure him that they will eventually wither away.SYNDICALISM
The dishwashers join labor syndicates that send representatives to a council, at which it is decided which dishes are to be washed and when.ANARCHA-FEMINISM
You wash the dishes for the boss — who washes the dishes at home?ANARCHO-PRIMITIVISM
Down with dishes!ANARCHO-PUNK
Down with washing!INSURRECTIONARY ANARCHISM
A quixotic attempt to distill a political theory from the practice of smashing dishes.-Crimethinc
Just so everybody understands. Once upon a time this read: Anarchism–Everyone washes THEIR OWN dishes. (Thus the title of the picture and the url.)
This has been changed to make anarcho-collectivism (et al) out to be the one true Anarchism. I don’t know if Crimethinc did it, but they are collectivists, so it seems likely.
The punchline is far less clever (or at least is far less funny) when you change it.
Anyway, Anarchism = Wash YOUR + OWN dishes.
Anarcho-some-other-faction-ism = WE + ALL + SHARE [sharing is mandatory, I guess] in washing the dishes.