On The Jacobin Show, Amber Frost offers a critique of some of the intellectual arguments for mutual aid, debunks the myth that the Black Panther Party's free...
Theres something dismissive about this argument though that i dont like. No one really says mutual aid is the answer, not even hard line anarchists who are very insistent on it. But marxists understand the use of mutual aid need to uplift suffering communities and actually help comrades and organizers who themselves need that aid in order to put in the work necessary for organizing this socialist movement. Mutual aid can be a great tactic for different things, and i think this video is strange cause who is it even addressed at? DSA doesnt even do that much mutual aid, and when it does it centers it around other campaigns. But often people are dismissive of mutual aid when its used as a way to especially help poc comrades who otherwise wouldnt be able to get involved in organizing.
If you aren't an anarchist there really isn't all that much to be mad about in this video.
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More like half the American leftists.
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Theres something dismissive about this argument though that i dont like. No one really says mutual aid is the answer, not even hard line anarchists who are very insistent on it. But marxists understand the use of mutual aid need to uplift suffering communities and actually help comrades and organizers who themselves need that aid in order to put in the work necessary for organizing this socialist movement. Mutual aid can be a great tactic for different things, and i think this video is strange cause who is it even addressed at? DSA doesnt even do that much mutual aid, and when it does it centers it around other campaigns. But often people are dismissive of mutual aid when its used as a way to especially help poc comrades who otherwise wouldnt be able to get involved in organizing.