Category: Reimagining Society

A review of Alicia Garza’s 2020 book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart,

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

The disasters we’ve seen in the past year could become far worse unless socialists and the working class rise to the historic tasks in front of us

Defending democracy against the far right involves many strategies, some short term, others medium term
There is need to invest in different structures, organizing alongside or outside of the traditional unions, base-building and nonprofit organizations for multi-year struggles, especially worker organizing and scaled disruptive direct action
But it’s not a substitute for organizing
Mutual aid builds the collective people power we need to take on the state
The recent decades of stagnation, debt-driven bubbles, and government bailouts are reaching their limit. Capitalism’s future is becoming catabolic
Previous Democratic administrations have not delivered on promises made, and there should be maximum pressure put on Biden right away
For the Pioneros Movement, building houses is just one part of radical social transformation