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 agree that you'll be able to get some people through the marketplace of ideas. But, you build much bigger, lasting, and more diverse groups through actual mutual aid.
Also, those people will be willing to actually go out and put in work (imo) as opposed to others who might like things in theory, but then never be willing to take action.
Both points are valid.
I agree that you'll be able to get some people through the marketplace of ideas. But, you build much bigger, lasting, and more diverse groups through actual mutual aid.
Also, those people will be willing to actually go out and put in work (imo) as opposed to others who might like things in theory, but then never be willing to take action.
Pros and cons to each approach, room for both, no need to malign the proponents of either one.