James Herod
Autor(a) de Getting Free
Obras por James Herod
Anarchist Revolutionary Strategy 2 exemplares
The Consolidation of Fascism, American Style 1 exemplar
Review of Arrighi: The Long 20th Century 1 exemplar
Review: Lebowitz, The Socialist Alternative 1 exemplar
The Weakness of a Politics of Protest 1 exemplar
Seeing the Inadequacies of the Strategy Proposals of the Anarchist Communist Federation (UK) 1 exemplar
Indigenism 1 exemplar
Palestine: The No-State Solution 1 exemplar
Majority Rule 1 exemplar
How Commercial Films Contain the Radical Movement: Turning Revolution Into Liberal Mishmash 1 exemplar
Loss of Anti-Capitalism 1 exemplar
A Goal and Strategy for Anarchy 1 exemplar
Making Decisions Amongst Assemblies 1 exemplar
The Presupposed Party: William Hinton's Mechanical Marxism and the Vanguard Party Strategy (2018) 1 exemplar
A Brief Critique of Anarcho-Syndicalism 1 exemplar
Is Greed All That's Wrong With Capitalism? 1 exemplar
May Day Talk 1 exemplar
The Lucy Parsons Center 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1935
- Sexo
- male
- Local de nascimento
- Pryor, Oklahoma, USA
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 47
- Membros
- 72
- Popularidade
- #243,043
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 8
What I found most interesting about the book was imagining what this post-revolutionary world would look like. Will we be able, after exercising our collective decision-making muscles, to make decisions on a massive scale that emphasize direct democracy, face-to-face contact, and discussion? If meeting halls are the altars of the new era, constructed like the cathedrals of the middle ages and the banks and skyscrapers of today, they will be even more beautiful because they will have the input from an entire free community, not just the whims of some experts. They will have to be specially designed with break-out rooms, and other architectural elements that elicit the most participation out of the most amount of people.
This book fails where it doesn't bother to venture. This seems like a weird statement: of course it doesn't cover what it doesn't cover, that's idiotic. But no, I mean that it gives very superficial attention to some details that will undoubtedly need to be worked out in a systematic and thorough way: white supremacy, for example, and xenophobia. Uprooting these systems will be crucial to avoiding isolated, ghettoized neighborhoods, and the solution to this problem is the solution to white supremacy in any political/economic structure: rigorous anti-racist work and organizing across racial lines.
That said, the effects of white supremacy and xenophobia within communities will be mitigated by the lack of hierarchy within neighborhood associations. Also, neighborhood assemblies will be more likely to let the people in a community address the unique issues of that community, even (under the worst case scenario) survival in isolation, far more than capitalism, given capitalism's foundation: the theft of the commons from the working class, the genocide of a continent of Native Americans to steal raw resources, and the enslavement or execution of hundreds of millions of Africans for hundreds of years of free labor.
Further, the author doesn't do a very good job enumerating how one might defend these assemblies, other than that self defense is something we should look into.… (mais)