Whatever one's opinion is about the Democratic Socialists of America, [I]especially[/I] in relation to class independence, any news about mutual aid or solidarity networks cannot be ignored:
https://mic.com/articles/186172/how-does-the-socialist-left-build-a-mass...
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What better way to evangelize a socialist future for America than giving people the things they need for free?[...]
Aside from brake lights, they’re beginning to train child care providers and gearing up for a campaign against anti-choice pregnancy centers that masquerade as legitimate healthcare clinics.
Five hundred miles away in Dallas, at the same time as the Pittsburgh brake light clinic, another DSA chapter was posted up in a predominantly hispanic neighborhood, administering almost 50 flu vaccines to promote single-payer health care.
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Across the country, DSA chapters ran brake light clinics in Detroit and Olympia, Washington, last weekend, not to mention upcoming clinics in Los Angeles and Oakland, California, all inspired by the first of such clinics in New Orleans back in August.
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And while mainstream Democrats seize on news headlines to raise money and drum up support on the road to the 2018 mid-term elections, the ascendant socialist movement in America is finding those hit by capitalism the hardest and doing what socialists do best: giving people what they need without demanding something in return.
[b]This style of activism, where locals share resources and skills, is traditionally called “mutual aid.”[/b] One of the most famous examples in recent American history is Black Panther’s Free Breakfast for Children program of the late 1960s, where black liberationists organized hot meals to be served to underfed children. Mutual aid steps in where government has purportedly failed — provocations that show the failures in a system that needs, in the eyes of democratic socialists, to be radically revised.
For leftists in America, this means mending the holes that, if left unattended, lead to sickness, poverty and, especially, incarceration.