I would like to respond to one of the points above: I agree, it was interesting to hear from Prof. Williams that the group felt compelled to deviate from the standard one person/one vote or consensus approaches […]
Another note on Prof. Maskovsky’s suggestion to reframe the discussion of reform vs revolution as that of Gramsci’s war of position vs war of maneuver. I’ve encountered the same framing while reading Kali Akuno […]
I would like to address someone’s suggestion in the beginning of the class to reconsider the ways in which we assess achievements of a social movement or struggle when there are no material gains, i.e. direct i […]
I would like to share some thoughts in regards to the question #1. Indeed, looking at the origins of racism in the US brings to the fore the question of class as the determinant in the creation of the American […]
Anthony’s comments on commoning got me thinking about community gardens and on their potential to transform community engagement and eventually contribute to a systemic transformation. Using the examples of u […]
Thank you for the great questions! I would like to respond to the second question –what kind of “people’s structural adjustments” of finance are possible through the electoral route– by elaborating on the idea […]
Thank you for the great questions! As I was thinking about the last question posed by the lead bloggers, that of the interplay between the neoliberal corporate elite and the state, I got redirected to the […]
I would like to address the second question, namely, examples of movements that reveal alternative forms of value, by picking up on the post-capitalist project in Catalonia that was discussed by Pere. I recently […]
I would like to comment on Harvey’s discussion of anti-capitalist movements. More specifically, one of my research interests being the viability of practices and spaces that operate outside capitalist and s […]