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...
the goal of socialism is for workers to own the means of production.
The goal of socialism is workers becoming the dominant class, abolishing commodity production, abolishing class distinction and doing production according to need and ability. Still, the biggest issue here with Amber's position is her presentation of socialism is just doing New Deal era labor movement but "more", when that movement ended up failing.
I think point 5 amber presented well enough, but it's not "socialist ideas". Organize people to their immediate interests and what they need (tenant organizing, labor organizing),. Otherwise we're just doing advocacy and charity work.
The goal of socialism is workers becoming the dominant class, abolishing commodity production, abolishing class distinction and doing production according to need and ability. Still, the biggest issue here with Amber's position is her presentation of socialism is just doing New Deal era labor movement but "more", when that movement ended up failing.
I think point 5 amber presented well enough, but it's not "socialist ideas". Organize people to their immediate interests and what they need (tenant organizing, labor organizing),. Otherwise we're just doing advocacy and charity work.
Amber.