IMO from an anarchist perspective, the “world building program” is just as important as building a revolution. Obviously not in a nation-state sense, but building dual power, building the new world in the shell of the old, mutual aid and other anarchist social interventions, i.e. proposing, constructing, and demonstrating liberatory alternatives for the future, all seem like important parts of an anarchist project.
You’re not fighting for the future. You’re fighting for you now.
Again from an anarchist perspective, I think we need to do both. Like we shouldn’t use that as a cudgel to procrastinate communism to the infinite future, but there’s definitely gonna be some stuff (e.g. climate change) that I personally want to work on that there is a very low probability I will personally see the benefits of.
Yeah we absolutely need to have our sights set on future if for nothing else than to save ourselves the work later. We need to do work today that will compound over time to benefit the future and we also need to ensure we are not leaving anyone behind to wait on a better future.
IMO from an anarchist perspective, the “world building program” is just as important as building a revolution. Obviously not in a nation-state sense, but building dual power, building the new world in the shell of the old, mutual aid and other anarchist social interventions, i.e. proposing, constructing, and demonstrating liberatory alternatives for the future, all seem like important parts of an anarchist project.
Again from an anarchist perspective, I think we need to do both. Like we shouldn’t use that as a cudgel to procrastinate communism to the infinite future, but there’s definitely gonna be some stuff (e.g. climate change) that I personally want to work on that there is a very low probability I will personally see the benefits of.
Yeah we absolutely need to have our sights set on future if for nothing else than to save ourselves the work later. We need to do work today that will compound over time to benefit the future and we also need to ensure we are not leaving anyone behind to wait on a better future.