New Vision/Strategy

• Collective 20: Crazy Little Thing Called Work

  While work is pretty much unavoidable, it does not have to be the way we know it to be
• Collective 20: The Future of State Politics: Transcending the Marxist / Anarchist Divide

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  Emanuele: Leftwing Pokémon

  We’re in a life or death battle and we need all hands on deck. That means fewer cartographers of the apocalypse and more strategists for the revolution
• Kinna: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity

  Kropotkin’s theory of mutual aid remains cogent as ever, demonstrating the capacity for revolutionary change even in the harshest, most repressive environments
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  Albert: Strategy: Some Key Strategic Issues

  We are not reformists where each effort exists unto itself. We are seeking a new society. Each effort either contributes to that, or it has fallen short
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  Albert: Participatory Economics, Ecology, and Anarchism

  Will a participatory economy be any better for the environment than capitalism?
• Collective 20: Overcoming Our Suicidal Tendencies

  From Defensive Traits to Participatory Ego States
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  Albert: Participatory Economics, Ecology, and Anarchism

  The following was written for a collection to be entitled Anarquismo contemporáneo y ecología (Contemporary anarchism and ecology) to be published In Chile
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  Emanuele: Power Requires Structure, Structure Requires Discipline

  Ordinary Americans will never win the reforms we need to survive until or unless hundreds of thousands of poor and working-class people across the United States participate in the political process
• Collective 20: Voters’ Motives and Left Agendas

  On the left we therefore shouldn’t passively hope against hope that public officials will serve humane priorities. We should grow our organized, informed, activist power to force the outcomes we desire
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  Albert: Looking Inward: Can We Win? Or Will We Defeat Ourselves?

  We who would improve ourselves, our relatives, our friends, our neighbors, or especially the world, need to learn how to deal with our tendencies to delusion, not only in its most obvious political forms like sectarianism, but also in its more personal dimensions that are cumulatively no less deadly to our political and social openness to critical change.
• Collective 20: Transforming the Corporate System, One Step at a Time

  If we want a different world, one that respects people and all life on earth, we should not despair.  We have the solutions and a movement-wide boycott could serve as an important vehicle for implementing those solutions
• Collective 20: What Next?

  Is there a way to attain solidarity with a diversity of unity and autonomy without undercutting what exists and without submerging each current facet of the left into a weakened compromised stance?
• Collective 20: From 2000 Feet

  The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains
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  Kidane: Provocations to rupture and the power to act

  Social movements from South Africa to Brazil have built economic systems rooted in cooperation, creativity and direct action as an antidote to the neoliberal order
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  Albert: In the aftermath of US Elections

  Trump’s shenanigans over the election may be trying to allow four years of resenting and organizing against a stolen election and against the rise of black and brown citizens, on the road to 2024
• Collective 20: Culture Makes Us Human

  In the end, make every day count. Create with every last breath. Organize and resist with all our collective will. Leave nothing on the table. There’s far too much at stake.
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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”