#113: Mutual Aid and Revolutionary Anti-Capitalism: Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity
About this episode
This episode explores the distinction between mutual aid and charity, emphasizing the role of mutual aid in creating participatory commons and resistance against capitalism.
This episode offers an audio version of " Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism ," exploring why the best way to understand mutual aid as an effort to create participatory commons in which everyone can contribute and there is no fundamental division between organizers and beneficiaries. -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents Introduction {0:30} Is It Mutual Enough? {1:34} Beyond Individualism {5:13} The Ones with the Problem Are Themselves the Solution {9:18} The Social Is the Material {13:14} Change from Below {15:17} Mutual Aid Means Resistance {19:33} This episode offers an audio version of " Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism ," published by CrimethInc. on June 6, 2025. The article version includes a variety of hyperlinks offering more documentation about the events referred. To keep abreast of the prevailing discourse about the difference between mutual aid and charity, you could begin with Dean Spade's " Solidarity Not Charity ." By contrast, this text presents some of the criticisms of the ways that the framework of mutual aid is used and misused. You can read read Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A…
Topics covered
- mutual aid
- charity
- anti-capitalism
- participatory commons
- social change
- resistance
Keywords
- mutual aid
- charity
- anti-capitalism
- participatory commons
- social change
- Dean Spade
- Peter Kropotkin
- Bill Wilson
- Errico Malatesta
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective
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