Resilience requires helping each other out
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Resilience requires helping each other out
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Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#2It would be wild if this was also true when it comes to countries, cultures, and species.
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#3This is sort of the fundamental building block of many socialist and anarchist movements.
The concept of "mutual aid" as put forward by folks like Kropotkin is basically we should build communities that help one another, offering our communities excess when we have our, and gracefully accepting aid when we need it.
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#4This is sort of the fundamental building block of many socialist and anarchist movements. The concept of "mutual aid" as put forward by folks like Kropotkin is basically we should build communities that help one another, offering our communities excess when we have our, and gracefully accepting aid when we need it.
That was the way of life for any community before industrial revolution. It appears that all attempts at creating such communities have more or less failed, because they eventually become coopted either for or against capitalistic economy.
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#5This is sort of the fundamental building block of many socialist and anarchist movements. The concept of "mutual aid" as put forward by folks like Kropotkin is basically we should build communities that help one another, offering our communities excess when we have our, and gracefully accepting aid when we need it.
Unfortunately, the term mutual aid has been co-opted by democrats to mean "charity". Likely because there is a stigma in our society around accepting help...
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#6It would be wild if this was also true when it comes to countries, cultures, and species.
wouldn't it though??
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#7This is sort of the fundamental building block of many socialist and anarchist movements. The concept of "mutual aid" as put forward by folks like Kropotkin is basically we should build communities that help one another, offering our communities excess when we have our, and gracefully accepting aid when we need it.
That was the way of life for any community before industrial revolution. It appears that all attempts at creating such communities have more or less failed, because they eventually become coopted either for or against capitalistic economy.
They tend not to fail when religion is a pillar in the community. The Amish and Mennonites are great examples.
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#8This is sort of the fundamental building block of many socialist and anarchist movements. The concept of "mutual aid" as put forward by folks like Kropotkin is basically we should build communities that help one another, offering our communities excess when we have our, and gracefully accepting aid when we need it.
Unfortunately, the term mutual aid has been co-opted by democrats to mean "charity". Likely because there is a stigma in our society around accepting help...
Democrats mean different things to an international audience. Which democrats are we talking about here ?
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was the way of life for any community before industrial revolution. It appears that all attempts at creating such communities have more or less failed, because they eventually become coopted either for or against capitalistic economy.
They tend not to fail when religion is a pillar in the community. The Amish and Mennonites are great examples.
I don't believe this behavior has ever been observed in a regliously and ethnically diverse population. People have to be basically related to one another, sharing a core common belief for it to work.
Re: Resilience requires helping each other out
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
They tend not to fail when religion is a pillar in the community. The Amish and Mennonites are great examples.
I don't believe this behavior has ever been observed in a regliously and ethnically diverse population. People have to be basically related to one another, sharing a core common belief for it to work.
Historically the progression has been (oversimplified):
some sort of reciprocal/mutual aid economy -> exchange (usually external) -> joining in with currency and capitalism
In my view the clear main factor is external disruption that forces groups into the market/currency based economy. That, plus the difficulties to control bad actors if you had a more informal system at huge scale (millions of people).
Without the external economic disruption you simply just don't get much diversity.
As far as specific events, things like disaster assistance volunteer operations in the West tend to be both religiously and ethnically diverse yet performed independently of expected remuneration. Otherwise it's not like we're observing huge samples if we restrict ourselves to looking just for communities that have both been religiously and ethnically diverse. Is the failure of any such alternate community to last for centuries - when the opportunity has barely even been there for that long - conclusive at all?