Mutual Aid

Mutual aid is not a system of charity, where one group has benefits they want to shower onto another group, typically for some kind of recognition or religious purpose. Mutual aid is not a system of exploitation, where the work of one group is exploited by another group which is fully capable of providing for themselves yet choose not to. Mutual aid is a symbiosis, a web of desires. It is relational and equitable. Mutual aid is a balance, an equilibrium, like in nature. The amount of mutual aid that can happen in a common space is determined by, first of all, the relationships between dwellers in the space, and secondly, that the needs and abilities of individuals relative to each other are about the same (so that a group is well matched according to their needs and abilities)