Counterpower

Organizing for Autonomy (eBook, ePUB)

History, Theory, and Strategy for Collective Liberation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"How can we get free? How can we free ourselves, our communities, our environments, our society? Our present is infused with incredible possibilities for realizing a free association of social individuals, sustainably regulating our relations within nature. Yet the material possibilities for the realization of this freedom remain trapped within a present that summons all available weapons of repression to contain and suppress it

"The question of freedom is central to all revolutionary movements. It is at the root of everyday struggles to resist and overcome oppression. Often, the realities we face constrain how we understand this question, so we ask it in pieces. How do we provide for each other? How do we protect, nurture, care, love, create? These questions of survival and perseverance ask how we liberate ourselves from the hardships of enclosure, exploitation, and dependency that are imposed on our minds, bodies, communities, and environments."

By laying bare the mechanisms of capitalism, imperialism, settler colonialism, climate catastrophe, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, exploitation and dispossesion, and a range of other oppressive structures and countering them with a historical account of revolutionary movements from around the world, Organizing for Autonomy offers a brazen and determined articulation of a world that centers community, love, and justice.

With an unparalleled breadth and by synthesizing innumerable sources of revolutionary thought and history, CounterPower presents the result of years of inquiry, struggle, and resistance. Bold, fearless, and radically original, Organizing for Autonomy imagines a decolonized, communist, alternative world order that is free from oppressive structures, state violence, and racial capitalism and helps us to get there.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Common Notions
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942173397
• Artikelnr.: 59740462

Autorenporträt

CounterPoweris a revolutionary organization committed to building the power of working and oppressed people, from below and to the left. Drawing lessons from past and present movements, they offer an analysis, vision, and strategy to build for social revolution in the heart of empire. They organize to dismantle the imperialist world-system: a system based on the fusion of capitalism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and the state. With branches throughout the United States, CounterPower has more than a decade of experience helping to build the collective power and autonomy of workers and the oppressed.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
The Specter That Haunts Us
Guerrilla Tektology
Building Counterpower for a Free Society
Outline of the Book
CHAPTER 1: POLITICS
1.1: Everything is Political!
Value
Standpoint
Composition
Inquiry
1.2: A Communist Politics
From Counterpower to Communism
CHAPTER 2: METHODS
2.1: Radical Social Science
Demystifying Reality and Illuminating Paths to Freedom
Against Reductionism
Historical-Geographical Materialism
An Itinerary for Radical Social Science
2.2: Conceptual Framework
Complementary Holism
The Human Center
Character Structures
Institutional Boundary
Spheres of Social Activity
Intra-Actions Among Spheres of Social Activity
Evolution and Revolution
2.3: Research from Below
Social Group Composition
The Multitude of Workers and Popular Social Groups
Cycles and Circuits of Struggle
Decoding the Hidden Transcript
Critical Assessment and Summation
Future Directions for Inquiry
CHAPTER 3: ANALYSIS
3.1: The Imperialist World-System
Empire as a World-Producing Force
Center/Periphery Relations
A Geopolitics of Imperialism
The Ecological Rift
Imperialist Strategies of Domination
Imperialist Crisis and Decay
Resurgent Fascism
3.2: Revolutionary Situations
CHAPTER 4: VISION
4.1: Communist Alternatives
Territories of Freedom
Commons
Conviviality
Councils
Communes
Assembling Communist Alternatives
4.2: Kinship
Communism at Point Zero
Communities of Full Care
Free Love and Free Partnerships
Communal Habitations
Education for Autonomy
4.3: Economics
The Abolition of Class Society
Stewardship of the Commons and Collective Enterprises
Federated Councils of Workers and Consumers
Multidimensional Production
Social Provisioning, Remunerative Justice, and Factors of Consumption
Communal Participatory Planning
4.4: Polity
Negate the State
A Communal Participatory Polity
Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice
Communal Defense and Security
4.5: Community
Decolonization
The Indigenist Perspective
Polyculturalism and Intercommunalism
A Psychedelic Transformation of Everyday Life
4.6: The World Commune
CHAPTER 5: STRATEGY
5.1: Levels of Political Praxis
5.2: Continuous Revolution
5.3: Organized Autonomy
Organs of Counterpower
Defending the Area of Autonomy
Create Two, Three, Many Parties of Autonomy!
From United Front to System of Counterpower
5.4: Protracted Revolutionary Struggle
A Path to Liberation
Phase 1: Laying the Groundwork
Phase 2: The Emergence of Territorial Counterpower
Phase 3: Insurrectionary Rupture
Phase 4: Direct Transition to Communism 
CONCLUSION
SummationThe Question of Program