@db0 mutual aid existed before internet and electrical power, the answer to that question is not on the internet.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)
Anarchism
1422 readers
7 users here now
Discuss anarchist praxis and philosophy. Don't take yourselves too seriously.
Other anarchist comms
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
@db0 mutual aid is about helping people around you so you could organize mutual aid by helping people around you every day, not if when crisis arises. The problem is that they need organize mutual aid without internet because they conceptualize mutual aid wrong, mutual aid it is not about helping people far away from you
The point is not if mutual exists, but how to practice it. You also forget that the alienation we all experience from capitalism has left most people without the necessary knowledge to do direct action for mutual aid. Did you visit the article?
@db0 lucky enough I am not American. In my country people are not as individualized and alienated as in America, they are alienated of course but not that much.
What I mean is that there's no way to organize mutual aid in a crisis situation if there's no previous mutual aid organization before because mutual aid won't emerge from nothing. Mutual aid takes years or even decades to be organized.
What I mean is that there’s no way to organize mutual aid in a crisis situation if there’s no previous mutual aid organization before because mutual aid won’t emerge from nothing. Mutual aid takes years or even decades to be organized.
I think many desaster responses actually show the opposite. Mutual aid can emerge spontaneously, structures get build within hours and people show that despite it all, they can help each other out.
Having knowledge, pre existing organizations and a more social day to day life can of course have a hugr positive impact