The New Impossiblists

[alanjjohnstone]

(carrying on from a different thread)

 John P. Clark' latest book, titled The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism,

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16856-the-impossible-community-an-interview-with-john-p-clark-on-grassroots-revolution

A synthesis of Murray Bookchin and Occupy ?

 

“This means rethinking the old cliché “think globally, act locally.”   The challenge is to think and act locally and globally at the same time. In fact, we can’t avoid acting locally and globally simultaneously, since global phenomena are largely made up of local ones and the magnitude of the global impacts of local action are constantly increasing…

 

…The idea of “the impossible community” is that the community of solidarity and liberation appears as an impossibility within the confines of these structures of domination. So, the only viable alternative is to create—here and now—those impossible communities. We need to stop demanding the impossible and simply do what is impossible. The strongest evidence for the possibility of something, including the impossible, is its actual existence….

 

….“Why is communism so good in practice, but it never seems to work in theory?” What most people think of as “communism” has not been communism at all, but rather a form of oppressive state capitalism or techno-bureaucratic despotism, justified through an ideology (a theory that doesn’t work) that disguises it as “communism.” 

 

Worth ordering for the library or Standard book review, i think. 

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