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   Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 12:11:30 JST Alex Prichard

   Interesting..

   Anarchism and Social Revolution: An Anarchist Politics of the Transitionary State

   https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39462-1#toc

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 15:50:52 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista

     hi. No, never come across him before.

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 16:39:54 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista

     yeah, I had a look around and found this too. Reminds me of Zahir Kazmi’s book, Polite Anarchy, where states become anarchists. From what I can tell, though, this one is at least revolutionary in intent, and reformist in practice (which I think is all anyone can actually be)

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 17:10:53 JST Alex Prichard

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     @abolisyonista I’d much rather anarchists were pragmatic rather than purists. Purists are just engaged in historical reenactment

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 17:10:54 JST Alex Prichard

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     @abolisyonista this just popped into my research gate feed. He’s not anti-prefiguración, I don’t think, just not committed to it exclusively.

     https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39462-1_8

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 17:10:55 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista I’ll have to have a read…

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 17:26:28 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista Matt Wilson’s Rules Without Rulers is good. He calls himself a revolutionary reformist. I suppose anything that praises ‘lifestyle’ anarchism too. Lifestyles are not just reformist - if we all changed our lifestyles it would be revolutionary. Laura Portwood Stacer’s book is worth a read too. Most people who defend a ‘revolutionary’ anarchism in principle are inevitably reformists in practice. So that might be something to look at too.

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     catch (catch56@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:16:05 JST catch

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     @alexprichard @abolisyonista the reformists in practice thing is kind of true but there's a huge tactical difference between say a workplace mass meeting to get a wage rise vs canvassing for Fight For 15 or similar, and the people who argue for reformism usually end up meaning the latter.

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:16:05 JST Alex Prichard

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     @abolisyonista @catch56 sure. But it is possible@to do both, and take part in a street demo. But if you have no real prospects of changing the mode of production, for example, it’s all reformism.

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:19:59 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista

     Matt’s the purest anarchist I know (at least he was until he got a job at Swansea University this year)

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:25:18 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista Lifestyle Anarchism and Radical Activism

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:28:49 JST Alex Prichard

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     @catch56 @abolisyonista

     I think the main problem has been the standard way of thinking about revolution. Seeing revolution as the contestation of sovereignty is problematic because most revolutionary movements don’t or fail to contest like that, but change society anyway. Also, most ‘successful’ revolutions on this definition are long term failures. We need a better theory of reform.

     https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41312-021-00101-5

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     catch (catch56@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:33:21 JST catch

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista @alexprichard hmm I think workers on the board of directors belongs to the first group though, that's what JD Rockefeller was pushing after the Ludlow Massacre as a containment strategy against more mass strikes breaking out.

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:36:34 JST Alex Prichard

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     @abolisyonista @catch56 and it’s worth remembering that while corporatism is usually aligned with fascism now, Mussolini’s dad knew Bakunin, I believe, and the fascist cooptation of anarchism didn’t end there either.

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:36:35 JST Alex Prichard

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     @abolisyonista @catch56

     Sure, but there’s a good argument for anarchist corporatism too. I’m not sure where I stand, and it definitely depends on the specific labour and legal context, but…

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 23:13:50 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista
     one more book you might want to have a look at is Stephen Condit's Anarchism and Local Governance (Anthem, 2019). I like it.

     https://anthempress.com/humanities-literature-and-arts/anarchism-in-local-governance-pdf

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     Alex Prichard (alexprichard@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 23:29:55 JST Alex Prichard

     • Abolisyonista

     @abolisyonista yeah, more or less. It’s a memoir really, with some theory to help him reflect on his practices.