New Vision/Strategy

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  Emanuele: Left Culture and Movement Prospects

  Have you ever heard a fellow progressive, leftist, radical, or revolutionary say, “I remain on the left despite the left, not because of it”? We have.
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  Albert: Dealing With Differences

  Both individually and in organizations we should celebrate differences and, when possible, should keep alive varied approaches so that everyone benefits from lessons and accomplishments others attain
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  Albert: A Rock and a Hard Place, Reform and/or Revolution

  How do we conduct activism seeking limited gains with the personalities and means we have at hand, yet in ways that lead toward comprehensive transformation?
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  Albert: A Class Between Labor and Capital?

  What the two class view leaves out, however, is that capitalists are not the only class that has major relative advantages
• Collective 20: Live Like Them

  The response of athletes as teams and as individuals, striking, dropping out of tournaments, speaking out, is remarkable
• Collective 20: Freedom, Responsibility, and Alienation

  What is freedom? We all speak of it. We all want it. We all celebrate it. But what, really, is it? Not some deep hieroglyphic, academic definition, but what is freedom as we do or don’t live it in our daily lives?
• 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