I find plenty of anarchists helping out at our mutual aid group feeding, clothing, and distributing harm reduction and survival supplies to people.
yeah anarchists are based af usually
Does your group have chapters? If so, can I ask what group it is? I've had difficulty finding a mutual aid group that has a real impact. They do things, but the lack of structure and organization makes it seem functionally useless. The people are all pretty cool, but it mostly feels like a waste of time.
We do not have chapters though we do work with several other groups in the greater Denver metropolitan area.
Gotcha. If you have any experience interacting with groups that would have a chapter in most metro areas, feel free to let me know. Where I'm from originally we had some really active groups, but since moving to my current city I'm having difficulty finding something that seems to make a difference. I'd like to do mutual aid focused stuff rather than more mainstream charity work, but the charity work tends to be more impactful.
I've done a couple of things with the DSA and the PLA, but as orgs they're kinda ... eh. I wouldn't be surprised if some local orgs near you might also collaborate with the DSA though, so you might be able to just ask about other groups from your local DSA chapter.
We get (and donate) food to established pantries and shelters, so you could also ask at some local food banks for group suggestions to get involved with.
Finally, check for zines posted on local classifieds, libraries, or refill stores. A lot of promotion of these kinda things is still somewhat underground, but you're likely to find connections to leftist spaces from generally socially conscious or modern subversion spaces (plant swaps, gay bars, local owned weed shops, thrift stores, DIY music houses, etc).
Thank you for the great suggestions!
Despite my disagreements with local anarchists, they are objectively helping people and are lightyears above the Online Left. I will take comrades of almost (almost!) all tendencies over the Online Left.
what is it with these tepid anarchist dunks?
It's part of the obligatory leftist infighting and it's fucking pathet fed shit. I think it should be a bannable offence
The lemmy.ml meme community has a handful of users who periodically dump a bunch of low effort inflammatory sectarian memes.
I thought BadEmpanada had made it to the shit list for some reason or other
He did some transphobia but he is also just a drama demon. He has no true leftist disorder
I've seen him regurgitate western imperialist propaganda against China
I'm personally no fan of his, given his transphobia and use of Marxism as a means to be a contrarion, rather than organize for change.
True for some of them but many of them are very based and do a lot more irl stuff.
Socialist orgs definitely have things to learn from them in terms of mutual aid for example, I find that very lacking in these circles while anarchists take it very seriously
Nah mutual aid and burning shit and deeding the propaganda are all pretty neat
Shitting on anarchist for lack of perceived praxis is a self report. Go outside and do real political work, they do.
F-tier meme.
Edit: I meant it's a shitty meme, I didn't see the title before using F.
Low tier meme.
I'm just an eepy girl
Leave no traces 🤭
Find a healtheir hobby.
That's not true, anarchists regularly allow themselves to be infiltrated by cops and closet white supremacists.
