It is said that psychoanalysis is concerned with something which takes place on a small scale, barely the scale of the family and the person, whereas politics is concerned only with large social groupings. I would like to demonstrate that, on the contrary, there is a politics which addresses itself to the individual's desire, as well as to the desire which manifests itself in the broadest social field.
A poem.
Socialists have long seen that with the coming of the industrial crisis when thousand of men all over the country would be laid off from work they would be in a mood to receive the cooperative message, but it comes somewhat in the nature of a surprise to many that the capitalists have seen it too and that they should take such vigorous measures as are now being taken all over the land to prevent that message from being heard.
Fascists build Death Worlds, worlds where their sovereignty, their bodily security, is grounded in the right to kill, 'to let live or expose to death,' the right to maim, to eliminate, and continually reduce others.
Mutual aid is the giving and receiving of unconditional material support to those in our community based on a shared analysis of root problems, and done so while working to help people survive existing systems.