Mutual aid is not about just financial or about resources. Its just setting up a community network to help. That could be giving a loan to someone to fix their car or could be your elderly neighbor needs a ride to the doctor or giving them some of your leftover pot roast. In turn that same neighbor maybe mends your pants or watches your kids. Like during the civil rights movement it could be as small as making food for a marginalized group. Its just an extension of the support system you normally get from family but for families to get support. When the government fails to help or worse actively harm.
I don’t understand mutual aid.
I haven’t had any experience with it other than what I’ve seen here.
It just seems like a very inefficient way to allocate scarce resources.
Mutual aid is not about just financial or about resources. Its just setting up a community network to help. That could be giving a loan to someone to fix their car or could be your elderly neighbor needs a ride to the doctor or giving them some of your leftover pot roast. In turn that same neighbor maybe mends your pants or watches your kids. Like during the civil rights movement it could be as small as making food for a marginalized group. Its just an extension of the support system you normally get from family but for families to get support. When the government fails to help or worse actively harm.