Anthony D'Costa wrote: > If my memory serves me right during the Argentinian crisis (not too long ago) > there was a lot of cooperative forms support systems at the level of local > communities.<
your memory serves you well. > I don't know if that turned into anything long term.< no do I. Does someone on pen-l know? >On the other people who live in the shanty towns (which is permanent crisis >of a sort) have fairly elaborate mechanisms of mutual aid.< right. Of course, the rich do mutual aid too. Skull & Bones (the famous Yale "secret society" that allegedly has Doug Henwood as a member ;-) ) helps its members a lot, as when Dubya failed in his ownership of the Texas baseball franchise. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
