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  • Great video! He made some really solid points. I hope some of the audience of Contrapoints sees it.

    Prefiguration really is the answer in so many cases. I think he could have emphasised, though, that while the road to rebuilding a real revolutionary left is long, every step along the path of prefiguration can and does make a practical difference to people’s lives. The pressure that can be brought to bear on elected officials will also grow little by little.

    Regarding disengaging from electoral politics, I think that radicals, since they’re people who are very interested in politics, have often become so highly engaged with electoral politics that they find it difficult to kick the habit. Also, I think there’s a perception that keeping up with the minutiae of bills and appointments is essential for being taken seriously when discussing politics.

















  • anarchotoothbrushistOPto Anarchist Memes Shut it down.
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    8 months ago

    A complete tear-down simply confirms the end of the status-quo, with no implication of anything better rising from the ashes.

    Most anarchists would advocate a strategy of ‘prefiguration’, often summarised as ‘building the new world in the shell of the old’. You don’t have to tear down the old system before you start building its replacement.

    In anarchy, those with power reign supreme over those without. Most power and resources are already consolidated in a tiny minority.

    Once a society has reached a condition of anarchy, there would, by definition not be a tiny minority with a concentration of power and resources. Anarchy means no rulers/authority.