[PeDAGoG] [REDlistserve] Re: The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation

[Jinan K B]

Another type of 50 50 is happening which is the writing is 50 and reference
is 50. Tragedy of modernity! Read read read read oh! I forgot to mention
write....read write read write.....

On Fri, 1 Oct, 2021, 07:23 Ariel Salleh, <arielsalleh7 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Living in hope for the day when Academic Reading Lists are 50:50 M/F -
> which presumably means more books by women are getting picked up and read!
>
>
> On 30 Sep 2021, at 10:39 pm, Davis, Laurence <L.Davis at ucc.ie> wrote:
>
> This is a very nice amination. Thank you for sharing it.
>
> Some of the following videos may also be useful for teaching purposes:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqG-71zOi0 ('Accidental Anarchist - What
> is the Rojava Revolution?')
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlZOa7DMiU ('People Without Faces' -
> Documentary about the Zapatistas)
>
> ...and my personal favourite...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y ('Living Utopia: The
> Anarchists and the Spanish Revolution')
>
> I use all of them in my third-year Government and Politics undergraduate
> module, 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics', which I
> have taught for many years here at University College Cork, Ireland.
>
> The following readings on their module syllabus, useful for those new to
> the subject matter as well as more advanced readers, are also generally
> well received by the students:
>
> John Clark, Between Earth and Empire (PM Press, 2019) and The Impossible
> Community (Bloomsbury, 2013)
>
> Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (AK Press, 2005)
>
> David Graeber, The Democracy Project (Allen Lane, 2013)
>
> Amadeo Bertolo, ‘Democracy and Beyond’, Democracy and Nature, Vol. 5,
> Issue 2, July 1999, also available at
> www.democracynature.org/vol5/bertolo_democracy.htm
>
> William Morris, ‘Useful Work Versus Useless Toil’, in A.L. Morton (ed.),
> Political Writings of William Morris (Lawrence & Wishart, 1979)
>
> William Morris, News from Nowhere (1891)
>
> Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries
> and Their Legacy (Princeton University Press, 2018)
>
> Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Harper & Row,
> 1974)
>
> Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman (eds.), The New Utopian Politics of
> Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (Lexington Books, 2005)
>
> Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (Zed Books, 2014)
>
> Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom
> Through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
>
> George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938)
>
> Martha Ackelsberg, Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the
> Emancipation of Women (AK Press, 2004)
>
> Sam Dolgoff (ed.), The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-Management in
> the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939 (Black Rose Books, 1974)
>
> Valérie Fournier, ‘Utopianism and the cultivation of possibilities:
> grassroots movements of hope’, in Martin Parker (ed.), Utopia and
> Organization (Blackwell, 2002), 189-216
>
> Dylan Fitzwater, Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous
> Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language (PM Press, 2019)
>
> Ashish Kothari et. al. (eds.), Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
> (Tulika Books, 2019)
>
> Laurence Davis, ‘Anarchism’, in Vincent Geoghegan and Rick Wilford (eds.),
> Political Ideologies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014), ch. 9
>
> Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press,
> 2004)
>
> Solidarity,
>
> Laurence
>
>
> From: GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf of
> Mofwoofoo <mofwoofoo at gmail.com>
> Sent: 29 September 2021 22:15
> To: Ted Trainer <tedtrainertsw at gmail.com>; Hari DK <hari.coding at gmail.com>;
> David Barkin <dpbarkin at gmail.com>; Ariel Salleh <arielsalleh7 at gmail.com>;
> Carlos Tornel <tornelc at gmail.com>; Tom Abeles <tabeles at gmail.com>;
> gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>; to:
> Radical Ecological Democracy list <
> radical_ecological_democracy at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [PeDAGoG] The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of
> social transformation
>
> [EXTERNAL] This email was sent from outside of UCC.
> I am writing as a long time radical anarchist activist "on the ground". I
> am not a scholar, but I have read a lot over 55 years. While I view the
> article (The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social
> transformation) worthwhile, it is nothing new at all. Anarchist literature
> and scholarship goes back to the 1860's when these same ideas were
> expressed. Anarchists have seen through the problem of hierarchies in
> gov't. and in general. I have submitted the 7 minute animation that I made
> in 2020 which explains a lot about organizing in a horizontal fashion:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8&t=5s. And how it might be the
> only way to eliminate once and for all corruption in governments.
>
> Citizen participation a la transition towns initiatives, localization,
> collectivism, decentralization, deconsummerism, self-reliance, economies
> that promote the good of the whole, cooperation, respect for the
> environment, etc. are ideas whirling around throughout the internet and the
> world. And as I am sure it is clear to everyone in this group, that the
> current system of capitalism is the perfect recipe for suiciding the human
> race.
>
> Meanwhile, as capitalism is collapsing or is being collapsed, there seems
> to be a rush to assert authoritarianism as soon as possible. And clearly
> the vaccine mandate and the pcr tests are ways to do this. But since the
> vaccine mandates will not go away no matter how hard the pushback is, they
> seem to have plan b ready to go: world-wide food shortages which would
> result in world-wide food riots and chaos, which will justify martial law
> and state of emergency declarations, which at least in the USA would
> empower FEMA to overstep the Constitution and do whatever they want due to
> the executive orders that give them total power.
>
> To avoid this from happening, people need to check on where their area's
> food sources are coming from and if they will be available or not. And in
> this way, using google or duck, duck, go one can ascertain what really is
> happening and what is going to happen in these regards. And if food
> shortages are indeed imminent, alert the citizenry to prepare by storing up
> on rice, beans, lentils, grains, tins, and storing food in preserves and
> salt for perhaps 6 months and setting up programs for those who don't have
> a few hundred dollars to spend to be able to be prepared as well.
>
> Finally, I am the founder of a mostly latino, artist, eco-community in
> Ecuador (chambalabamba.org, under construction) since 2012, and believe
> me, this is not the solution for the world. It takes years to get it going,
> most communities fail for lack of funds or cohesion, it is not for
> everybody, and it is a false hope for those who believe that this is the
> way, imho.
>
> --
> To reply to the author of this message, select "reply"; to reply to the
> whole list, select "reply to all".
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Radical Ecological Democracy" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to radical_ecological_democracy+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web, visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/radical_ecological_democracy/47785045-39A8-4760-AD14-9DAEE6BF4B26%40gmail.com
> .
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/gta-pedagog/attachments/20211002/bf0d5c43/attachment-0001.html>