askchapo

FnB is mostly liberals who just take free food and give it to people, sometimes cooking it themselves but often times just giving it directly from whole foods or whatever other store. It's a charity, not a political organization. There is no political education component, no screening for reactionaries, no system of internal accountability, no strategy for social change. It is anarchist in that no one in accountable for the org and there is hardly any structure or rules but it's not like they'll even teach about anarchism. This is why the majority of the people who do it are liberals who want to volunteer for charity but even more of them are just people who want free food and know that by volunteering you can get first pick of the spoils before it gets distributed out. I've seen so much racist and transphobic shit come from FnB members.

One thing I'll say is, like DSA, every now and then there will be a local chapter who is actually full of communists who do want to do more than what I described above. This is just a random thing that can happen but is not the norm in my experience. If you truly have no options locally, it couldn't hurt to go volunteer and get a feel for folks there.