Why read Mutual Aid?

Book cover of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

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Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to-or actively engineer-each crisis, ordinary people are…

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1 author picked Mutual Aid as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jordan Flaherty

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During this moment of pandemic and other crises caused by capitalism, many people have turned to mutual aid as an attempt to help their neighbors and communities. As Spade writes, “Left social movements have two big jobs right now. First, we need to organize to help people survive the devastating conditions unfolding every day. Second, we need to mobilize hundreds of millions of people for resistance so we can tackle the underlying causes of these crises.” This book explains both why and how we can create structures that will change the world.

From Jordan's list on The best books for challenging capitalism, racism, and patriarchy.