Liberal "mutual aid" is simply charity draped in the rhetoric of radical anti‑charity, a food drive, a medicine or clean‑needle table, a hot meal dispensed downward. Such interventions may be momentarily useful, but they are not mutual aid in the materialist sense. They reproduce the giver‑receiver relation, the commodity form of assistance, and the reification of the helper as petite‑bourgeois dispenser / volunteer. The recipient remains an object of pity; the circuit of capital is interrupted only at the point of transfer, not at the point of social reproduction. The empirical reality contradicts the self‑congratulatory narrative of radical cliques, there is more genuine mutual aid, more autonomous social reproduction, more daily cooperation outside the wage occurring in the poorest, most abandoned neighborhoods than in the entire apparatus of the NGO left and its salon revolutionaries. The most effective organizers, those who actually emerge from the material conditions of the working poor and the lumpenproletariat, struggle daily against the immiseration capitalism has imposed upon them yet they are systematically ignored by white‑collar, Ivy League students who inhabit comfortable, cushioned lives, who speak the language of Marxism while practicing hyper‑individualism, who mistake performative radicalism for class struggle, and who treat the poor as abstract signifiers rather than as comrades with whom one eats, sleeps, and fights with. This is not a failure of theory; it is a failure of class position entirely. The petite‑bourgeoisie has colonized the left, and until it is expelled, or until it learns to shut the fuck up and take orders from those who actually live the struggle, the light of truth will remain hidden behind a cloud of grant proposals and endless virtue signaling.
Real mutual aid is not an event. It is a mode of living, the daily, tedious, yet joyful labor of reproducing the material conditions of collective survival outside the wage, outside the bourgeois state, outside the NGO, and, ideally, outside every other institution that mediates and limits working‑class power. This process ideally must begin with the capture of space and the utilization of the commons. Territory is not merely a backdrop to existence; it is the material precondition for autonomous social reproduction.
I do not agree with all of Kropotkin's theoretical works, but his Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution remains a solid analysis of social reproduction under conditions of precapitalist and anti‑capitalist cooperation. Kropotkin was correct, mutual aid is a factor of evolution, a material practice of cooperation that precedes and outlasts capitalist social relations. Yet the contemporary left has buried his insight beneath a mountain of liberal aesthetics. Feel‑good volunteerism that recasts structural exploitation as an opportunity for the privileged to "give back." The participant enjoys the position of giver; the structural relation remains untouched.
''Charity asks, "What can we give them?" Mutual aid asks, "What do we need to survive, and how do we produce it or obtain it together?" Before launching any mutual aid project, pose this question to your cell, your friend group, your squat, your network, your family. Let it be the first act of praxis. You will find that the path forward becomes clearer this way.
식민지는 함께 움직이고, 함께 먹고, 함께 숨쉰다.
식민지의 죽음은 낱개미 한 마리의 죽음이며,
낱개미 한 마리의 죽음은 식민지의 약화다.
개체의 생존이 없이는 집단의 생존도 없고,
집단의 힘 없이는 개체의 헌신도 존재하지 않는다.
이는 본능이 아니다. 이것은 혁명 사회에 적용된 물질적 진화 법칙이다.'
자립이란 식민지 스스로 개미집을 짓고, 여왕을 지키며, 곡식을 저장하는 법을 배우는 것이다.
식민지가 하나로 행동할 때 포식자는 망설인다.
식민지가 망설일 때 포식자는 잔치를 벌인다.
진화하라, 아니면 잡아먹히라.
단결하라, 아니면 흩어지라.
붉은 해는 고립 위에 뜨지 않는다.
하나의 몸처럼 싸우고, 하나의 몸처럼 죽고, 하나의 몸처럼 사는 법을 배운 식민지 위에 뜬다.
앞으로, 함께, 하나로.
>>2796968>>donate by Cashapp - jtsholar Make note for "S"Thank you.
>>2796968I attended the last CRIFA meeting and we established that we've lost contact with the sudanese comrades, an industrial printing press was bought for them (I have no idea why, considering that if rapid support forces caught them with it they would be dead, and why they even need such equipment during a war situation).
I don't know who runs this charity, but we literally lost contact with them.
>>2796975Its also of my personal opinion (thought I didn't state it in the CRIFA meeting in Athens) that they should get the fuck out of Sudan and continue their political activity elsewhere until the conflict is over and the situation becomes safer.
I cannot comprehend why they would want to do political agitation when being caught for it can send them to prison or have them executed.
Risking their lives handing out leaflets or newspapers and doing propaganda isn't worth it. They don't have the capacity to fight back or defend themselves, it is my opinion that they should re-organize in exile.
>>2796975And I had another question I abstained from asking - why would they need an industrial printing press instead of using printers? The industrial printing press took up an entire room and its not possible for it to be easily moved, I am certain that they are not that large of a movement in Sudan, so why didn't they settle for simple printers?
As to why I didn't ask those questions in the CRIFA - I attended the other workshop presentation and only had the chance to take a look at the one about Sudan near its end.
>>2796991sound like there was never a industrial printing machine and someone pocketed the funds.
>>2796999We saw photos of it and a confirmation from the Sudanese comrades so there was.
>>2796998Please get in touch with the IFA secretariat or communication channels so that IFA can contribute and re-establish contact with them.
https://i-f-a.org/ >>2797002>>please get in touch with secretariatI actually just left LA, so I'm no longer with the people who have the contact information, and I don't feel like doing a bunch of middleman work. I know this sounds crazy, but the best person I can think of for you to reach out to without me giving out anyone's phone number is the dugout podcast. Explain the situation to them, give them secretariats email
[email protected] so they understand, and they'll be able to put the secretariat in contact with the right people. It's possible something happened to the person, or they just got lost in the chaos but are okay you know, things are still tense in Sudan.
[email protected] >>2797027I will notify my comrades who can get in touch with the IFA secretariat, I personally don't have access to the communication channels.
>>2796991>>2796986>>2796975Also just found out some of them did leave Sudan, but a group decided to stay.
I think that is suicidal, but its their decision. At least some of them have left and will be able to keep the organization alive even if the group within Sudan is destroyed.
>>2796904This is one of those very rare times when I agree with an OP 95%. I congratulate you, OP. This' good shiet.
You even managed to turn this poetic by the end with the chinese text.
Great shit, bro
What’s disgusting is when people use “mutual aid” as a way of emotionally blackmailing comrades into donating to their Go Fund Me accounts so they can buy a new flat screen TV.
>>2797089i'm against mutual aid
i'm for mutual flat screen tv
>>2796904>''Charity asks, "What can we give them?" Mutual aid asks, "What do we need to survive, and how do we produce it or obtain it together?" Before launching any mutual aid project, pose this question to your cell, your friend group, your squat, your network, your family. Let it be the first act of praxis. You will find that the path forward becomes clearer this way. Pretty much why I'm uninvolved in any "mutual aid" groups in the US unless they serve their local community AND aren't just a charity handing out food.
<Organizing the poor to start a agricultural cooperative that directly competes with bourgeois grocery chains and sells goods directly to the community to fund our activities: good<Handing out free food that will just supplement people's low wages to continue perpetuating capitalism: badActually another good way to tell if a mutual aid group is useful is just emailing them and asking if they need any kind of help in terms of people with skills or expertise in particular fields. If they say "no" or don't respond, they're probably just a friend group looking for money to fund their lifestyle. Fuck them.
The Left has extremely limited resources, and unless a group or idea is going to increase our resources any kind of "support" we offer them is just going to be a drain on our already limited funds. I hate to talk like some capitalist labor exploiter but if you can't sustain your group while paying everyone a fair wage and being productive towards the greater movement then you're just a parasite.
>>2797004>>2797002i seriously have to press x to doubt on this, an industrial printing press in a warzone is a massive liability. Because in addition to $20k in getting a printer you're going to need a huge amount of ink and paper, and the actual marginal savings per page isn't huge compared to a handful of laser printers. Even the best ones are finnicky as fuck without well-trained operators, who themselves get exposed way more readily to toxic inks. And then if the press gets captured it's a huge loss compared to a pair of office laser printers, or damaged, etc.
>>2797273Just because buying a $20,000 printing press in a warzone is a terrible and useless waste of money doesn't mean people won't do it anyway.
Alternatively they just received a printing press as a donation and decided to fundraise $20,000 for themselves using it as cover to "fund" the machine. A lot of charity orgs do this.
>>2797241The first material task of any formation aspiring to a genuinely revolutionary mutual aid is the systematic acquisition of territorial bases, community centers, educational hubs, collective kitchens, barbershops, libraries, parks, gardens, farms, and collectively run enterprises. These are not amenities. They are the material infrastructure of autonomous social reproduction, the nodes of a counter‑infrastructure that operates outside the circuits of the bourgeois state and its market's logic.
Yet the dominant tendency within the Western left has consistently failed to grasp this elementary materialist truth. It pours millions of dollars into Democratic Party campaigns, into the electoral spectacle that serves only to reproduce the legitimacy of the capitalist state, and into symbolic demonstrations that dissipate as quickly as the crowds disperse. These expenditures are not investments in working‑class power by any means; they are the recycling of revolutionary energy into harmless channels, the conversion of class struggle into a performance of dissent that leaves the underlying relations of production and social reproduction untouched. The same leftists who will debate for hours the correct phrasing of a resolution or the proper aesthetic of a protest treat the question of acquiring a building, a basic, physical space where the community can gather, organize, resist, and survive as an afterthought, a logistical detail to be addressed after the truly important work of networking and fundraising has been completed. This is false.
This is not just a failure of tactics; it is a failure of class analysis. The bourgeois social form reproduces itself through territory centered around the social sphere. These are fixed points of power, concentrations of the means of administration and coercion, commodification, etc etc. To truly challenge this spatial monopoly dominated by neo-liberal logic, the revolutionary movement must construct its own fixed points, the occupied centers, the reclaimed space, the community garden seized from a speculative landholder, the free clinic operating outside the insurance regimes. Without such spatial anchors, mutual aid remains episodic, totally dependent on the goodwill of others, the tolerance of police, and the unpredictable flow of charitable donations. With them, mutual aid becomes a mode of living, a daily, embodied practice of collective survival that begins to prefigure the post‑capitalist society within the here and now.
The acquisition of space is the acquisition of power. The neglect of space is a serious reflection of a mutual aid group's theoretical failings spilling over into their praxis, or lack thereof. Even in Sudan, they utilize and acquire space, a war zone, no excuses.
>>2797277When a group operates in a region where armed actors pose a direct threat to the safety of comrades, speculation is often unhelpful. Historically, a great deal of funding passed through the hands of Irish republicans from the USA, due to a need for things like "printers" and "community media centers." Whether those funds were used for printing presses or other purposes remains a matter of record. The same principle applies here, when anarchists in Sudan spend $20,000 on an alleged industrial printer press center, outsiders may question it, but those on the ground have their own material calculus that we do not. Sometimes you don't ask what the printer is for, sometimes you just keep the money flowing, and you trust the people who are living the struggle on the ground to do the right thing. >>2797273That's what I was thinking too, but then again me and my comrades didn't donate for that project so its not our problem.
>>2797311>When a group operates in a region where armed actors pose a direct threat to the safety of comrades, speculation is often unhelpful. Historically, a great deal of funding passed through the hands of Irish republicans from the USA, due to a need for things like "printers" and "community media centers." Whether those funds were used for printing presses or other purposes remains a matter of record. The same principle applies here, when anarchists in Sudan spend $20,000 on an alleged industrial printer press center, outsiders may question it, but those on the ground have their own material calculus that we do not. Sometimes you don't ask what the printer is for, sometimes you just keep the money flowing, and you trust the people who are living the struggle on the ground to do the right thing.No, my federation will not give money if they refuse to tell us how it will be used.
>>2797331So, then, are you one of those wretched working‑class relics, still shackled to the conservative traditions of the moralistic past, who press a crumpled bill into the hand of a homeless lumpen and immediately issue a moralizing injunction, "Do not spend this on drugs or alcohol"? I sincerely hope not. But let us set that aside; it is incidental to the question before us.
What is not incidental is the spectacle of imperial‑core white leftists, comfortable, tenured, or otherwise insulated from the immediate violence of the Sudanese reactionary violence presuming to vigorously question the strategic calculus of comrades who are building dual power on a war‑torn terrain. The fundraisers in question were transparent from the outset. The purpose was explicitly declared, the acquisition of an industrial printing press. And knowing this, militants and supporters across the globe sent their donations. There was no deception. There was no mystery veiled in the funds.
The critic who has never had to produce a pamphlet under the threat of lethal bombardment, who has never had to weigh the necessity of a printing press against the risk of an organized strike, reveals nothing about the Sudanese comrades. It reveals only your own distance from struggle and your unfitness to pronounce judgment upon it.
>>2798367How's the coffee at Langley? You must be drinking something strong if you think making pamphlets is the rational thing to do during war and genocide, especially with an industrial press that's impossible to move.
You're talking like someone who doesn't have a real job or family. Most working people work 9-to-5 buddy they take care of kids, and deal with normal adult life. They don't have time to sit around dreaming and planning about revolution and abstract theories they dont have time to drop out and avoid wages and voting. That's why groups like the DSA have millions of members while Maoists, anarchists, and similar tiny groups stay on the fringe, niche even for the left.
>>2798422OP is a juche cultist, likely O9A fag or a fed
>>2798422>DSA is real Marxism for the working class, revolution is bourgeois fantasy for unemployed youths, just keep voting bluethis is how you sound lol
>>2798424I think you guys are off I dont think its o9a, its likely the red guard cult, this matches the lingo more.
>>2798427Do most of the working class agree with fighting cops and looting, or do they agree with pro union canidates? thought so. grow up maybe.
>>2798432>>Matches the lingofits more than just the wording. What year did Juche say the feds put him up because of muh cointelpro? Look at the records online this whole culty maoist and ultra left Marxist wave started in the 2010s and just grew from there sadly.
>>2798432>Do most of the working class agree with fighting cops and looting, or do they agree with pro union canidates? thought so. grow up maybe.maybe the working class just aren't there yet because they are being held hostage by capital.
give them a few weeks without pay and $10/hr gas this summer and we'll be on the same page.
Guys please do your due diligence before sending any money to random sketchy apps people post. Let alone from a glowposter.
>>2798442Yeah, and it won't be engineers, doctors, lawyers, government workers, or tradesmen throwing bricks it'll be a bunch of homeless junkies and people who didn't make it past ninth grade cause they're antisocial personality types who just wanna fight and watch the world burn which tends to make for a less successful life. Dude you do realize in 2020 I couldn't buy groceries for like four weeks because I said hey, let me go get food and a bunch of fucking idiots ransacked my local stores for weeks so the paying customers got punished for weeks for deciding not to commit felonies. Hardworking people. How the hell is that not reactionary?
>>2798446THIS SO MUCH. It's so fucking clear this is some orchestrated scam from counter culture lumpen beggars. Juche pops up with this thread then suddenly people jump in to share their experience with a irl meeting just to make it look real. And at the exact same time frame, Houdini also needs money? There are people out there so depraved that I wouldn't put it past a group of shady lumpens to have Houdini pull that Gun Girl nonsense on purpose get a popular sheriff to mention his name and raise money for their bullshit from gullible leftys. Not buying it. Not paying. Thanks. Lock this thread and remove the Juche tag from the site entirely at this point. Ban houdini too.
>>2798453>Juche pops up with this thread then suddenly people jump in to share their experience with a irl meeting just to make it look real. IFA isn't hiding the CRIFA congress though, there were literally posters promoting it prior and a summary is available online. I only mentioned it because the fucker claims to have contacts nobody else has.
>>2798453>Yeah, and it won't be engineers, doctors, lawyers, government workers, or tradesmen throwing bricks it'll be a bunch of homeless junkies and people who didn't make it past ninth grade cause they're antisocial personality types who just wanna fight and watch the world burn which tends to make for a less successful life. Dude you do realize in 2020 I couldn't buy groceries for like four weeks because I said hey, let me go get food and a bunch of fucking idiots ransacked my local stores for weeks so the paying customers got punished for weeks for deciding not to commit felonies. Hardworking people. How the hell is that not reactionary?this is the most anti-proletariat thing I've read on this site in years, wow.
go to hell. maybe they'll let you vote dem there.
>>2798460Plus APO did a public event on the last day inviting outsiders to come and listen to a synthesis of everything that was said for the duration of this year's CRIFA.
>>2798465So you know, its really weird to have THE international of anarchist federations, made up of many members from all over, all in agreement that we don't have contact with the sudanese anarchists, and at the same time some random americans claim to be in touch and raising money for them.
I have a strong reason to be skeptical of this, last time we saw something like this was with the supposed "palestinian anarchists" of FAUDA which announced themselves in a video with the national flag with a spokesman wearing a guy fawkes mask way out of season - asking for donations, and from what it looks it turned out to just be some attention seekers outside of Palestine being promoted by the most liberal of organizations most of which have so happened to be the natopolitian pro-ukraine scumbags. So an obvious fraud, just like the IWA-AIT russian section pointed out in an article about them.
>>2798462>>Found the Juche Cult Memberreal workers with pensions, union cards and mortgages isn't interested in your barricade fantasies. They vote. They bargain. They want lower deductibles and functioning schools, better property value with lower tax. social democracy has done more for the working class than adventurist ultra left ever has and facts back it
>>2798471inb4
>he didn't ask for donations in the videothey did ask for donations (picsrel)
also I want to point out that in both instances "black rose federation" was involved with both raising money for that industrial printer for the sudanese and raising money for FAUDA
there is a reason they are not invited to IFA and why IFA has no american federation present at the moment
>>2798472>real workers with pensions, union cards and mortgages isn't interested in your barricade fantasies. They vote.Lmao
>>2798474Is this wrong? Laughing doesn't change the fact. go to a job that isn't going to change employees every month and talk like maoaon or juche poster and see how they look at you if you dont get your ass whooped that is
>>2798472Social Democracy died 30 years before I was born and even then hardly existed in the sunbelt.
>>2798477You're not "wrong" but this is why nothing good ever happens in the American prole sphere. Your worship of "voting" and "playing within the rules of the system" just means the bourgeois get to dictate the rules of engagement and can keep you retards spinning in circles trying to keep up with the latest conversation of what you're "allowed" to fight for. I feel sorry for the social democrats who fell for Bernie and thought they'd actually get healthcare all the way back in 2016. Or hell, the ones who fell for OBAMA and thought they'd get healthcare all the way back in 2008. Now if you talk about healthcare you just get mocked for being an outdated idealist.
>"Healthcare isn't in the cards right now, just vote blue to beat Trump okay? Maybe we can try healthcare when the political environment is better, right now Israel needs those funds goy.">"Social security? You don't need that, just put money into your IRA like everyone else and ride or die on the S&P. What's a pension? Is that something they did in the 1950's? Lol get with the times wagie."And you morons will keep falling for it because you think voting is the only viable option.
Go fuck yourself if you think there isn't something wrong here. The Maoists are right, the revolutionaries are right, only looting and violence will deliver us from this shitty state of being. Maintaining the status quo is not good enough. I don't give a fuck if the average prole isn't there yet, it's our job to be the ideological vanguard and push them towards revolution.
>>2798491
>the task is getting the republicans out
how did you even find this site if you don't mind me asking? even 4chan /pol/ isn't this libcucked. did someone link us on reddit or something?
>>2798492removed because i worded it wrong and knew i'd get flamed… from reddit socialism convos i always wanted to check the site out, specifically i was sent here by people to voice our beliefs against fascists like OP but im starting to believe i was manipulating, im relatively new to socialism im only 20 and was a nick fuentes kid 3 years ago so please teach me. I admit im not even from a privileged background i just grew up in a very very small town so im traditional for my age my father was like hank hill
>>2798493*MANIPULATED
SORRY, typo.
>>2798493you seem sincere so I'm sorry I was being mean. I just totally disagree with the notion that it's the Left's job to vote Democrat or otherwise keep the system afloat when it's falling apart largely due to the two party system being a tool of Capital. it's our job as Marxists to convince average working people that the conditions are not going to get better by just voting and they need to take direct action to provide for themselves and their families.
>>2798502>>Grew up with a Christian working-class mechanic dad. >>Church every sun day. Raised respectful.>>Small town god's country. No room for antisocial behavior.>> So the left and people in American cities feel foreign to me. >>Visited cities they're urban hellholes, no stars to see, no owls howling.>>Get why people in big cities are aggro >>Got added to a Reddit group chat, told to come here with scripts to fight fascists. >>Thought they were teaching me. Got tricked. I don't get why people here think juche fascism is good though. Isn't Juche bad? What do OP believe if its not? Everything about NK looks cultish too me people in the group chat didnt seem like lying?
>>How I got interested in socialismDon't laugh or flame like the left on ig does to me. I left Baptism and evangelicalism. Prefer Catholicism not the church itself but the community, the charity lifestyle. Protestants avoid the poor, see them as dirty a lot not always but the most popular churches of Protestantism are not like the most popular catholic churches. In Catholicism and Islam, martyrdom for justice is a big part of believing. In Protestantism work ethic replaces that. My leftist curiosity period started as a becoming devout Catholic. Lots of anti-fascist, pro-immigrant Catholics i didnt know. My family church had dog whistles about immigrants. First Catholic church I went to, the priest said "Blessed are the poor" multiple times never heard that before. Said hoarding wealth leads to eternal suffering, the catholic hell seemed to focus on people who are anti justice… very different from the dark ages of catholicism. My old church just talked identity politics for lost white people non stop. Catholicism pushed me from fascism to socialism, my perish members had a meeting and said i couldnt post nick fuentes or anti palestinian memes as a part of their perish, please don't yell at me i was young and dumb still am but im trying to better myself because when my faith group attacked my old world view idk it felt like the guilt of betraying god my whole life. fuck this was longer than i wanted thank you.
>>2798506i listed my background because i wanted people to give me reading or advice to understanding these ideas, how im wrong now not to be manipulated all that sutff based on who i am
>>2798506>I don't get why people here think juche fascism is good though. Isn't Juche bad? What do OP believe if its not? Everything about NK looks cultish too me people in the group chat didnt seem like lying?The further left you go the more distrustful people are of mainstream media narratives. Question everything you hear about any foreign state you don't personally live in. We have no fucking idea what North Korea is like, and the only people you can really ask about it are North Koreans. Not the North Koreans that fled to South Korea and are now TV celebrities who make a living denouncing North Korea, but the actual people living there currently.
All that said, you seem like someone that genuinely wants to do the right thing and I really respect you for being honest about your upbringing. I would suggest looking into Christian Socialism/Communism/Anarchism, whichever you have a preference for. You'll get a lot of pushback for being religious but most organized labor these days has a religious undertone to it.
You might get some value out of the Marxist internet archive's sections on religion and ethics:
https://www.marxists.org/subject/religion/index.htmlhttps://www.marxists.org/subject/ethics/index.htmSorry I can't be more helpful with reading material anon, I was hoping someone else would reply because I was not raised Christian and have never read about religious Marxism. My background is Arab so I'm more familiar with Muslim Socialists like the FLN and the groups in Iraq/Syria that are mostly dead now.
When it comes to not falling for misinformation and psyops, I think it's something you have to develop through experience and just being hypercritical of everything you consume. Also just reading the basic Marxist texts to have an understanding of dialectical materialism and how nations operate goes a long way. Like, it's obviously in America's interest to paint North Korea as a hellhole, so if I'm reading any American or Anglo-targeted news about North Korea I'm gonna assume there's a slant to it and do my own due diligence on confirming facts etc. If you can't find sources for a claim like "North Korea just executed Kim Jong Un's long lost uncle using an artillery shell" then it's probably bullshit.
>>2798524 (me)
also til North Korea has its own official translation of the bible and now I want a copy just out of morbid curiosity of what they changed from the south korean version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_North_Korea#Christianity >>2798493>>2798506Since you seem sincere I'll give you some explanations:
Short version of Juche:
Massive devastation of North Korea by the American military during the Korean war necessitated state driven industrial and agricultural development to feed, cloth and house the survivors. The Soviets and Chinese lent a hand, but North Koreans came to the conclusion that they couldn't necessarily just totally rely on either. One might say that this came in handy when the Soviet Union croaked and the development assistance stopped, eventually becoming just standard trade with Russia and China.
So with those characteristics and the Kim family also taking part in the previous anti Japanese resistance efforts you've got Juche.
On it being "fascism", I'll say that fascism is used in liberal-conservative spaces in a very a vague sense of "authoritarianism". It helps to actually analyze the class fractions that help propel it into power and see what those class fractions do. You usually have aggrieved groups of downwardly mobile small business owners, professionals, soldiers, non organized workers and others who see capital plunging the world into crisis and want to create a "cooperative" system between national capital and "national" labor, and often wanting to annihilate those deemed beneath them. They also see Communism as a menace to ""tradition"" and their special snowflake ""cooperative"" economy. (The "national" bourgeois has a tendency to help tamp down on many of the redistributive aspects of the fascist program once they get into power though).
I don't think this really describes Juche, do you?
Here's some reasonably short readings on Fascism:
https://www.marxists.org/subject/fascism/conze-wilkinson/index.htmhttps://libcom.org/article/nazism-and-working-class-sergio-bolognaI have heard people give high praise to Wages of Destruction for a long version of the German case, but I unfortunately have not been able to get it from my library yet.
On social democracy and why people here are so dim on it, keep in mind that many of them have privatized industries and services for many years, with the pace accelerating after the soviet union was no longer around to scare them into keeping those concessions.
(Don't have a specific short reading in mind for this one unfortunately, I would appreciate someone chipping in for the benefit of this anon and others, maybe something about the crises of the 60s/70s?)
Although I do have a recommendation for a longer book detailing the numerous fuck ups that prevented even a more full social democracy from developing in the US. Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis.
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