This sounds like an excellent strategic model: something like close inside/outside collaboration while building institutions that fulfill people's needs.
Yes! Exactly. “Outside” institutions need structural support, but can also offer immediate benefits and legitimacy. Connected directly to an “inside” effort, both achieve their maximum potential.
this viewpoint seems dependent on things(climate,gov,society) remaining somewhat the same... I'd venture that a more long-term and overall successful strategy is to think more in terms of dual purpose than dual power. nature is diverse. our political system is not, and therefore, won't survive the definite coming climate changes and subsequent disruptions to society/gov. we don't need to oppose these structures directly, that is simply the same hubris that got us here. we need to do parallel community building, so that when these systems inevitably fail due to their own rigidity, we have the diverse, redundant services to be ready to plug more people in and scale up quickly and appropriately. I would also venture politics is a literal waste of effort, as it serves little purpose other than ego. principles before personality would serve us well.
Always grateful to have your voice pulling together the eco-visionary and the richness of the radical tradition.
Thank you so much!!
This sounds like an excellent strategic model: something like close inside/outside collaboration while building institutions that fulfill people's needs.
Yes! Exactly. “Outside” institutions need structural support, but can also offer immediate benefits and legitimacy. Connected directly to an “inside” effort, both achieve their maximum potential.
this viewpoint seems dependent on things(climate,gov,society) remaining somewhat the same... I'd venture that a more long-term and overall successful strategy is to think more in terms of dual purpose than dual power. nature is diverse. our political system is not, and therefore, won't survive the definite coming climate changes and subsequent disruptions to society/gov. we don't need to oppose these structures directly, that is simply the same hubris that got us here. we need to do parallel community building, so that when these systems inevitably fail due to their own rigidity, we have the diverse, redundant services to be ready to plug more people in and scale up quickly and appropriately. I would also venture politics is a literal waste of effort, as it serves little purpose other than ego. principles before personality would serve us well.
I addressed this argument here https://open.substack.com/pub/thelastfarm/p/on-collapse?r=1v2ifi&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post