"Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, it moves two steps away and the horizon runs ten steps further. So, what is utopia for? That’s what it’s for, it’s for walking."
Digging In
Watch
Radical Reviewer: Let’s Build a Better Economy
Global Forum on Democratizing Work 2021: No Bosses Panel Discussion
Andrewism: Practical Guide for Revolution
Albert:
Why Dissent and With What Logic?
This is Revolution Interview
Vision for 21st Cent Leftism
Socialism vs Capitalism – Destiny Debate
Parecon 101: Part One
Parecon 101: Part Two
On Markets
Real News Interview: Part One/Two/Three
Conference: Crisis of the Nation-State, Anarchist Answers
Varoufakis:
Varoufakis & Albert | DiEM25
Chomsky, Pettifor, Varoufakis: Visionary realism | A green future
Kostakis & Varoufakis: What Comes After Capitalism?
Hahnel:
Firestorm Coop Interview
Parecon Series – After the Oligarchy
Participatory Planning
Climate Disaster
Chowdhury:
Reproductive Labor in a Parsoc
Shalom:
Democracy and Nested Councils
Self-Governance
Sandström:
Anarchist Accounting
Listen
Read
Participatory Vision & Strategy:
Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, Chris Spannos
No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World, Michael Albert
Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society, Michael Albert
Democratic Economic Planning, Robin Hahnel
Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis, Robin Hahnel
Parecomic, Sean Michael Wilson & Carl Thompson
Liberating Theory, Michael Albert, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Mel King, Lydia Sargent, Holly Sklar
Women & Revolution, Edited by Lydia Sargent
Vision & Strategy Essentials:
Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
Workers Councils, Pannekoek
Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism, Bertrand Russell
Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, Murray Bookchin
Anarcho-Syndicalism, Rudolf Rocker
Workers’ Councils: And The Economics of Self-Managed Society, Cornelius Castoriadis
For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton
On Anarchism, Noam Chomsky
Government in the Future, Noam Chomsky
A “Green New Deal”?, Tom Wetzel
As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence, The Care Collective
Fundamentals
Radical Theory
Kinship
Community
Polity
Economy
Getting Organized
Understanding Strategy
More Strategy for Activists
21 Fallacies Feeding ‘Cancel Culture’ – Red Goat Collective
The Activist’s Antidote: Depression, Hopelessness, and Burnout – Shaner
Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the Power of Big Tech – Kwet
Occupy New School – Sperling & Bradshaw
IMZ: 10 Years of Citizens Assemblies – Shaner
From Russia with Vision – Voronin
Devastating Lies About Mental Health – Ahsan
Is Climate Change Your Fault? – Renouf
On Fascism and Civil War – Bello
Using Policy to Reorganize Power – Jacobs & Goehl
Free Transport or System Change? – Watson
Common Cause for Land Justice – Droz
Portland’s Circular Economy – Fernando
What is Legitimate Protest? – Generation Change
Degrowth Strategies – Hickel, Kallis, Schor, Jackson, O’Neill
Getting Involved
Real Utopia is an international network of activists and concerned citizens that can be described as a “think and do” tank. It is an online library of resources, a laboratory for experimentation, and a community of people committed to participatory organizing and advocacy.
RU welcomes anyone who wants to learn about and advance participatory theory, vision, & strategy, and aims to “plant the seeds of the future in the present” by organizing now according to the theory and practices that it advocates for a better future.
The Greek Internationalist Art & Research Centre for Post Capitalist Studies, called Mέta, works to break with a dystopian present to imagine the world anew.
“We are already in the early stages of an era that can only be described by that which it succeeds: we live in postcapitalist times. They may turn out dystopic, utopic or anything in between. Through art and research, argument and poetry, mέta works to break with a dystopic present to imagine the world anew – to grasp our present historical moment so as to help radical progressive movements find a path from the emergent dismal postcapitalism to one worth fighting, and living, for.”
A Participatory Economy is a model for a democratic, fair and green economic system developed as an alternative to capitalism.
ParticipatoryEconomy.org provides information, resources, and a discussion forum on how a modern economy of millions of people can be organised around cooperation and solidarity instead of competition and greed.
