New Vision/Strategy

• Collective 20: Raise, Don’t Stabilize and Don’t Reduce Social Costs

  We seek radical social transformation. But short of that, our actions should not only force elites to respond to our demands they should also expand democracy and plant the seeds of a new future in the present
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  Emanuele: Winning Requires Vision, Strategy, and Numbers

  The current wave of protests must articulate winnable demands with regard to policing (which will vary greatly depending on geographical location/political context) while simultaneously articulating demands that meet the primary material needs of poor and working class people (wages, housing, debt)
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  Bohmer: Raise the Social Cost: An Important Strategic Concept; No Justice, No Peace!

  We should reach out and listen before we criticize some of their actions. These direct-action resisters have the potential or already are an important part of social movements and organizations that demand a better world
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  Albert: Beyond Depravity, Another World

  How ironic it is to write an ode to participation and collectivity while hunkering down behind voluntarily closed doors enduring voluntarily welcomed isolation. Stupid hypocrisy? Marvelous victory? Maybe both. So it goes.
• Collective 20: Tomorrow’s World, Today

  COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question...
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  Albert: Pandemic Prospects

  There are big issues. They matter to society hugely. Things...
• Collective 20: From ‘Movement Moments’ to Change, From the Red Summer to Black Lives Matter

  “I think we really are on a trajectory for something different”
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  Albert: Moldy Bread Is Not Enough

  With nearly 40 million un- or underemployed workers in the...
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  Albert: Old SDSers, New DSAers, and Trump vs. Biden

  In a recent letter a group of old SDSers hoped...
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  Albert: Surviving and Going Beyond

  Wise folks now realize The Virus is going to cause...
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  Falk: From a Dysfunctional World Order to a Sustainable Future

  What is altogether missing are credible sources of revolutionary energy guided by such a vision of a necessary and desirable future, which would imply a rejection of autocratic governance of sovereign states and apartheid geopolitical regimes
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  Glick: A Winning Strategy for Power, Already Underway!

  A look at the necessary aspects of a winning strategy, many of which are already happening now
• Wilson: The Positive Dialectics of Four Hills and RevolutionZ (With No Apologies to Adorno)

  Little Big Man. I can’t remember the book (Thomas Berger)...
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  Bookchin: Eyewitnesses to the Rojava revolution: hevaltî and dignity

  Interview on how the revolution has impacted everyday life in Rojava
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  Albert: RevolutionZ / Next American Revolution Update

  The following is a transcription of a very recent session...
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  Albert: To Participate or Not To Participate

  Because Trump winning would literally threaten civilization, and because Sanders winning would not only stop Trump but take us a good distance in good directions, this election is the most important in my lifetime and perhaps ever - and thus worth serious participation
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  Albert: An Open Letter to DSA

  Dear DSA, Your priority attention to all sides of life...
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  Albert: The Twenty Percent Problem

  Interview on movements, and the problem of the smarmy professional class
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  Lakey: Vision is finally on the rise in U.S. politics

  From grassroots movements to presidential hopefuls, the importance of creating visionary plans for change is no longer being ignored
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  Albert: Socialism: Ecology or Nothing

  This is the twentieth and last essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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  Albert: Socialism or Participatory Society

  This is the nineteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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  Albert: Socialism: Kinship

   [This is the eighteenth essay in a multipart series addressing...
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  Albert: Socialism: Community and Culture

  This is the seventeenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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  Albert: Socialism: The Polity

  This is the sixteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
• Pigott: Extinction Rebellion’s “regenerative culture”

  Behind the eye-catching arrest tactics, XR’s culture of conversation, care, crew and eschewing celebrity could be just as transformative
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  Albert: Socialism: Some Strategic Implications

  This is the fifteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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  Albert: Judging Participatory Socialism

  This is the fourteenth (and longest) essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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  Albert: Socialism: Disputing Participatory Planning

  This is the Thirteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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  Ehrenreich: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert on Parecon

  Fifteen years ago Barbara Ehrenreich interviewed Michael Albert about participatory economics. The exchange largely addressed matters of allocation, participatory planning versus markets, so we rerun it to accompany the series of essays on socialism now appearing on ZNet
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  Albert: Querying Young Chomsky

  Eight years ago Michael Albert wrote an essay addressing the anarchist views of Noam Chomsky