{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#113: Mutual Aid and Revolutionary Anti-Capitalism: Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity","description":" This episode offers an audio version of \u201cMutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism,\u201d 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 \u201cMutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism,\u201d 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\u2019s \u201cSolidarity Not Charity.\u201d 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\u2019s Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution here. You can read about Peter Kropotkin\u2019s influence of the origins of Alcoholics Anonymous here. You can read AA founder Bill Wilson\u2019s text \u201cBenign Anarchy and Democracy,\u201d which is quoted in this episode, here. You can read read Errico Malatesta\u2019s \u201cMutual Aid\u201d here. The allusion to \u201crelations without measure\u201d in this episode is a reference to the journal Killing King Abacus. For more perspective on how the non-profit industrial complex foreshortens the potential of movements for social change, read The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. You can read about mutual aid projects in Brazil, Puerto Rico, Poland, New York City, and many other places on our website. You can also learn about mutual aid projects like the Really Really Free Market. Finally, for a deeper dive into the background of revolutionary discourse about the commons in English-language traditions, you could read The True Levellers Standard Advanced: Or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men published by Gerrard Winstanley in 1649.   ","author_name":"The Ex-Worker","author_url":"http:\/\/crimethinc.com\/podcast","html":"