5LL #97 - Support Networks, DSA, Time Banking, Arguments, Trees

What Mutual Aid Can Do During A Pandemic
Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
A radical practice is suddenly getting mainstream attention. Will it change how we help one another?
Thousands of Americans Have Become Socialists Since March
Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic
The Democratic Socialists of America have an estimated 10,000 new members—growth that organizers attribute, in part, to the coronavirus pandemic.
Could A Time-Based Economy Be the Future of Work?
Quinn Myers, Mel Magazine
Money is tight, so more people are trading their time to barter for services they can’t afford. Could the ‘time bank revolution’ actually scale?
How to Argue With Your Comrades
Hadas Thier, Jacobin
When faced with political setbacks like Bernie Sanders’s loss, it’s easy for socialists to blame our own comrades for our defeats. But those losses are more rooted in the powerful structures we’re up against than our own failures — and while vibrant debate is critical to the Left, intraleft attacks and recriminations just exhaust and dispirit us.
An Asset Grows in Brooklyn
John Kazior, The Baffler
Conforming ecology to capitalist logic
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