This is the latest take I've seen contrarian secretarianism lead to. MLs believe mutual aid is a thing anarchists do, therefore it is cringe and liberal. They'll do any mental gymnastics required to get there. Meanwhile Ho Chi Minh, Mao and the Panthers all wrote about how important mutual aid is without using that specific terminology
Meanwhile Ho Chi Minh, Mao and the Panthers all wrote about how important mutual aid is without using that specific terminology
They were all rebels working to build a mass movement in colonially occupied territories.
If you're already operating a dictatorship of the proletariat, mutual aid is kinda cringe, as it implies the state party and affiliated government isn't doing its fucking job. Mutual aid is what you do when you can't leverage the powers of the state to your own ends. But why the hell would you run an Underground Railroad when you had access to Union Pacific?
Is this person just conflating mutual aid with charity?
This is the latest take I've seen contrarian secretarianism lead to. MLs believe mutual aid is a thing anarchists do, therefore it is cringe and liberal. They'll do any mental gymnastics required to get there. Meanwhile Ho Chi Minh, Mao and the Panthers all wrote about how important mutual aid is without using that specific terminology
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Is Catherine Liu even an ML, or is she just a bad Nagle clone?
They were all rebels working to build a mass movement in colonially occupied territories.
If you're already operating a dictatorship of the proletariat, mutual aid is kinda cringe, as it implies the state party and affiliated government isn't doing its fucking job. Mutual aid is what you do when you can't leverage the powers of the state to your own ends. But why the hell would you run an Underground Railroad when you had access to Union Pacific?
not all MLs, but yeah
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