Right now I’m physically unable to utilize my bathroom due to material contradictions. However, my friend is fully capable of doing so. If I invite him over and allow him access, am I not, in effect, de-privatizing a piece of sanitation infrastructure and redistributing it based on ability?
Like under a bourgeois framework, my toilet is my private property. Its use is restricted by ownership, not need. But the second I open it up to someone else, especially when I myself cannot poo a shit, it feels like I’m dissolving that boundary and turning it into a shared resource.
At that point, is the toilet still private property, or has it become a collectively accessible means of production?
I realize this sounds absurd, but I’m trying to locate the exact line where “being a normal person” ends and “accidentally engaging in revolutionary praxis” begins. Cus if this counts, then I feel like we’ve been severely underestimating the political potential of toilets.
Would appreciate serious answers