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...
I mean, the take was "people do Food Not Bombs after they lose, because they failed to bring about mass revolutionary change", which is not exactly a far cry from "Food Not Bombs is for losers".
That's entirely different from "FNB is for losers."
"X is for losers" means if you do X, you're a loser. You suck. I'm laughing at you and your pathetic hobby. "People do X when they fail to bring about their primary goal" means X is a backup plan, or an attempt to at least do something good when you can't accomplish a comprehensive solution. Someone who tries, fails, and tries something else is looked at far more positively than a loser.
This is why we shouldn't paraphrase critiques of other leftists. Look at the PSL article on dual power quoted elsewhere in this thread -- see how they critique other leftists.
It's easy: criticize someone's take all you want, but give the actual take itself, not some third-hand recollection of it.
I mean, the take was "people do Food Not Bombs after they lose, because they failed to bring about mass revolutionary change", which is not exactly a far cry from "Food Not Bombs is for losers".
That's entirely different from "FNB is for losers."
"X is for losers" means if you do X, you're a loser. You suck. I'm laughing at you and your pathetic hobby. "People do X when they fail to bring about their primary goal" means X is a backup plan, or an attempt to at least do something good when you can't accomplish a comprehensive solution. Someone who tries, fails, and tries something else is looked at far more positively than a loser.
This is why we shouldn't paraphrase critiques of other leftists. Look at the PSL article on dual power quoted elsewhere in this thread -- see how they critique other leftists.
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We probably agree on more than we realize.