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.
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