Defragmenting our selves
So this is me starting on a series of posts I’ve been planning for a while on the sustainability of political organising, something I’m interested in after seeing a couple of periods of political activity die away leaving not very much behind. I met Judith Ryser recently at some thing. She has been involved in…
A Prof. Erik Olin Wright here talks about the conviction that it is impossible to challenge the nature of ‘capitalism’ (whatever we take that to mean) itself, through incremental institutional reforms within our current economic system. This is claimed by much of the far left, essentially for ideological reasons. His conclusions for the whole lecture…
Today I found myself reading another article debating how to spread radical, anti-establisment ideas. It briefly outlined the options for spreading a more truthful version of what is going on in the world: a slow movement of persuasion, an outburst of street protest to force discussion, trying to infiltrate the mainstream media, and so on….