An anti-capitalist café in Toronto where patrons would pay what they can has shut down after a year in business after failing to make enough money.

Owners of The Anarchist, which opened in March 2022 and had been described as an ‘anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land,’ said the coffee shop will close its doors on May 30.

‘Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term,’ owner Gabriel Sims-Fewer wrote.

(via Althouse, who quips: “I love the notion that the café had such depth of feeling that it “shuddered.” When capitalist-pig owned places go out of business, they merely shutter.”)

[Translation from Revolutionary into Reality-based English: “I discovered that capitalism works and that extortion based on colonial guilt is a bad business model.” If your market consists entirely of socialists who expect everything for free, well … — Ed]