MUTUAL AID THE COMMONS AND THE REVOLUTIONARY ABOLITION OF CAPITALISM : Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity

Autor: CRIMETHINC.
Editorial: ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION PUBLISHING
Publicado en: 2026
ISBN: 978-1-914567-76-6

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.