Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Conscience of a Radical

by S. Myers Continuing our ongoing discussion on what it means to be a radical, we submit the following excerpt from The Conscience of a Radical (1965), by Scott Nearing. The book is a response to The Conscience of a … Continue reading

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Are Cooperatives Utopian?

Worker cooperatives have never occupied a central place within Marxist theories of class struggle. They have not been regarded as a revolutionary force in society, and still less has their formation been considered a worthwhile or necessary activity for revolutionaries themselves to engage in. If we look more closely, however, we find that this question of cooperatives cannot be dismissed so simply. Continue reading

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Envisioning the Community of Workers: Alliance to Develop Power

We believe that the future of the workers’ movement depends on the creation of new forms of working class community. But this is not just an abstract idea. In fact, it is already happening… Continue reading

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Toward a New Model of Working Class Organizing II: What is the Community of Workers?

by K. Wilson and S. Myers In the first article in this series we saw how, during the 20th century, capitalism destroyed the foundations of community in the developed countries. The community institutions through which people once satisfied their needs … Continue reading

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