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...
It's not that community is an inherently reactionary concept, it's that small communities can easily turn into horrible, reactionary places. It's pushback on the idea that local programs are automatically better than state or federal ones.
I have a hard time believing anyone would be angry at the take itself. You don't have to live in a small town to read about how fucked up they can be.
People get angry at that take because they don't actually read/listen to it; they hear some (inaccurate) paraphrasing of it along the lines of "communities are reactionary."
your take is sensible, but i originally posted the comment because i heard her say community, as a concept, is reactionary. don't remember the episode though
It's not that community is an inherently reactionary concept, it's that small communities can easily turn into horrible, reactionary places. It's pushback on the idea that local programs are automatically better than state or federal ones.
Pretty sure that nobody who's angry at that take of hers has ever lived in a small town.
what do you mean? 78 year old white people and dealership owners are so sweet
I have a hard time believing anyone would be angry at the take itself. You don't have to live in a small town to read about how fucked up they can be.
People get angry at that take because they don't actually read/listen to it; they hear some (inaccurate) paraphrasing of it along the lines of "communities are reactionary."
your take is sensible, but i originally posted the comment because i heard her say community, as a concept, is reactionary. don't remember the episode though
Small communities can turn bad in contrast with state projects, which historically never did (not a dig at you)