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I remember listening to a podcast about this. How right wing chuds are looking to take the place of fema when disaster strikes and already have. Can't remember which podcast, maybe trillbillies
I think I know what you mean
The west, the imperial core in particular feels so doomed.
It won't be leftist groups that do mutual aid but a bunch of reactionary militia maniacs who between handing out aid to "the good ones" will murder and lynch a few POC and queer folk, and do some gender-violence on women and use their hero status to obfuscate their misdeeds and growing power.
It seems too convenient too, like something the bourgeoisie or the nat-sec state planned as a way to prevent the rise of organic left mutual aid groups who would spread class awareness and threaten the existence of the US and capitalism itself. They can also use the existence of these to claim government is inefficient and they should just give money (and legal murder powers) to these groups instead because they do it better. And when a communist mutual aid org is found all murdered in an area where these people are operating it will be obvious what happened but uncle Sam wanted them dead anyways so you know they'll probably just hand out more guns to them in return and they'll become more popular with cops.
Plenty of anarchist and marxist groups collaborate to do mutual aid. I follow a group on instagram who's been at the site doing water purification. blackpowderpress I think covered one of them.
It doesn't just seem convenient; there's historical precedence for it. While not natural disaster per say, fascists have been known to host AAs, "Masculinity Programs" and other niche social programs disguised as mentioned previously. Further back, the government sponsoring radical militias to keep communists and socialist groups down is not uncommon or a element of the government (states and local/what not) to start funding these groups (I think of Chetniks for example). It's been going on a long, long time in the U.S especially and in this case it's more opportunist in this case for them to establish a "popular front".