I wonder what would happen to people like me in a mutual aid society, would they tolerate my unwillingness to help others in a way that doesn’t benefit me or would they force us to work, and then die when I poison their crops as an act of justice?

@hackdart
 
To add to this: if anyone wants or has the time I would advise looking into the EZLN’s titular commander Subcommandante Marcos’ writings or even an interviews. He is a fascinatingly clear headed and clairvoyant mind. Hell, his ““unmasking video alone is top-tier.
 
 
To also reply to @SinnerWhoKeepsTrying1978 concerns “all for all” is like the “everyone is a winner” thing: it’s kind of a yes but more of a no. On one hand people are assured their basic needs, per proposed by Peter Kropotkin when he coined the notion, or discussed it at least in Conquest of Bread. But it is hardly as if you have to do nothing for it. To Kropotkin, he believed that all the necessities if life are guaranteed provided you work in the field necessary to maintaining neccesity, drawing from observation on technological progress at his time he proposed a man, made capable of producing far beyond his needs by machine assistance can easily receive whatever he needs to live, and not work full 8 or 12 hours and predicted that if Hierarchial management we’re removed and that Democratic self-management practiced the means of making work easier so as to reduce their own hours while raising their own productive capacity that will be earned more and more. And with necessary labor being slashed the individual may spend more time in work he finds enjoyable or in fields he enjoys to not only learn the specifics of what he needs to do it, but earn the materials or even access the potentially limited supplies in order to do that (as in scientific pursuit).
 
And if someone doesn’t want to do anything because they’re lazy, then the community can feel free to bit reward him for it so as to encourage him to do community sustaining work.
 
Functionally, this is the same logic behind Amish communities without the fear of technology and he pulls supporting evidence from observations from rural or industrial communities outside or avoided by the normal economy. When a community need is identified, like gathering timber then they all join in to see it done.
 
Per the case if the Zapatistas this is the aim and practice intermingled with native Mayan practices and custom towards the land. One of the reasons the Neo Zapatismo uprising in the 90’s happened was in protest against NAFTA which was seen as a significant threat against local self management and would only marginalize them further, as a living people and a culture.

@SinnerWhoKeepsTrying1978  
It’s just a five tone blue/green palette. I like experimenting with limited palettes in general, it’s a fun challenge.

@hackdart  
What I was referring to as negative was the coloring. Are the colors intended to be inverse of the colors of the characters and environment?
 
BTW, interesting story and music video.

@SinnerWhoKeepsTrying1978  
No, my expanded thoughts are included in the source description, but the Zapatistas have managed to successfully live by their idealism for the past twenty-four years. Their success does much to prove that people can live without perceived necessities of hierarchy and exploitation, and I think Western society can learn a lot from what they’ve accomplished.
 
This image is in homage to their struggle, and one that I’ve shared with the hope of inspiring revolutionary thought in others. I highly recommend researching more of their movement, as well as similar efforts such as the Kurdish experiment with democratic confederalism in Rojava :D

“Everything for everyone, nothing for us.” Sounds like a situation I’m familiar with, the type that’s advertised as “Everyone’s a winner,” until someone tries it out. Then, the devil in the details leaves that someone with no progress to speak of.
 
I’m guessing the image is in negative?

Amicis omnia, hostibus ius.

Viva!