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so the word choices that christians and anarchists/leftists/"maoists" (let's just say super-leftists as an all-encompassing term) use when they have these projects are totally different, but both Christians and the other groups typically maintain a "helping the oppressed" type of narrative to motivate and justify what they do. While Christians are not really helpers of the oppressed in a serious sense, overall they see material society as being misleading and evil and the folks who come to them are just misled and need some sort of guidance. Some Christians even share sympathy with the same ones that the aforementioned do: the people of color, the proletariat, the down-and-out, etc.

This is not to say Mutual Aid is a patronizing thing from the get go, but when you consider the people who usually start these projects...and all their implicit biases, and lack of interest in terms of starting friendships and more familial communities with those they "help"...