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 don't think anyone on the left will tell you mutual aid is bad; the discussion is more along the lines of its potential as a tactic for getting us to socialism. The argument advanced in this interview is that mutual aid is good, but that its potential for advancing the cause of socialism is sharply limited.
Great point on the need for "clock into the socialism factory"-type tasks that can get people involved in manageable chunks, too.
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I don't think anyone on the left will tell you mutual aid is bad; the discussion is more along the lines of its potential as a tactic for getting us to socialism. The argument advanced in this interview is that mutual aid is good, but that its potential for advancing the cause of socialism is sharply limited.
Great point on the need for "clock into the socialism factory"-type tasks that can get people involved in manageable chunks, too.