That is, if you think of it as a poker game with a prolific cheater. Or as a dog that the owner tired of watching practice his multiplication…
^^^^my general though w/r/t the type of attitude Kevin Carson talks about here, in a nutshell.
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I think that in the context of the townhall, the KO criticism was dead on. The woman had a concrete and immediate problem to which the right wing shill proposed leaving her to the mercy of her neighbors. There is at present no mutual aid infrastructure on which that woman can rely, and there are abundant obstacles in the way of its rising up.
For sure, I’d never down anyone for their serious issues. To me the more instructive part to look at is that our political system gives heartless dicks like the guy she was talking to such power in the first place.
I don’t see a problem with people in the meantime using what little resources they do have access to. If it’s between principle & starvation, no one’s going to starve. But in the end there’s a reason why the system we live with is so much better at funding war than more useful things: the average person is beside the point.
The irony, of course, is that the constituencies for typical right-wing republicans have, for the most part, long ago abandoned informal institutional mutual aid infrastructures.
Off the books mutual aid infrastructures are largely the province of immigrant populations. For example, Off the books mutual aid infrastructures are an excellent predictor regarding immigrant entrepreneurial activity.
Republicans, via the national security state, and “authenticating” receipt of social services by authorized people(legal citizens) would eviscerate the last real vestiges of “mutual aid networks” in the US, because they are quite informal.
The likes of Olbermann, who spit out comedy that humans have progressed to the point that there is no civil society apart from official government organs, are truly on the Pravda(official state media) payroll. Of course, “the Stimulus” saved the “underclasses” from starving. Reports of greatly expanded, counter, off-the-books economic activity to make ends meet for the proletarians(not privy to politically connected stimulus money) are mere right-wing, capitalist propaganda. No doubt, civil society is rooted in the unquestioned authority of Keith Olbermann’s institutional political preferences…