Week 12

Key Questions

• How can we organize against capitalism? What might anti-capitalism struggle look like?

• How can envisioning a communist future inform contemporary struggle? Should means be connected to ends?

• How can former and modern socialist struggles contribute to theorization and practice?

Required Materials:

• Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, "Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society"

Supplementary Materials:

• CounterPower, Organizing for Autonomy: History, Theory, and Strategy for Liberation, "Envisioning the Commune"

• CounterPower, Organizing for Autonomy: History, Theory, and Strategy for Liberation, "Building the Commune"

• Max Ajl, A People's Green New Deal, "The World We Wish to See"

• Max Ajl, A People's Green New Deal, "A Planet of Fields"