Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism

Another Crimethinc zine that we have turned into a cute little pocketbook. Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In practice, however, the majority of today’s self-described mutual aid projects remain more or less unidirectional efforts to provide goods and services to those in need.