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Topic: Prefigurative politics

	Prefigurative Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Prefigurative politics is the basis for much of the non-party organizing in North America and Europe today.
		Influenced strongly by feminism with its slogan, "the personal is political", activists for the last thirty years or more have stressed that the form of their politics, even their lives, must be consistent with the goals.
		Art, as a major part of human culture, is inevitably political, whether that is explicit or not.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/cyborgcitizen/cycitpgs/prefigart.html (2985 words)

	Nonviolence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In green politics nonviolence has a central role and it is one of the key values of the green political movement.
		Some green political parties, like the Dutch GroenLinks, evolved out of the cooperation of peace movement and the environmental movement in their resistance to nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
		Leon Trotsky, Frantz Fanon, Subhash Chandra Bose, Ward Churchill and Malcolm X were fervent critics of nonviolence, arguing variously that nonviolence and pacifism are an attempt to impose the morals of the bourgeoisie upon the proletariat, that violence is a necessary accompaniment to revolutionary change, or that the right to self-defence is fundamental.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nonviolence (2327 words)

	B. Getting There
		Beneath the governmental machinery, in the shadow of political institutions, out of the sight of statesmen and priests, society is producing its own organism, slowly and silently; and constructing a new order, the expression of its vitality and autonomy….
		Prefigurative politics is a fancy term that just means living your values today, instead of waiting until "after the revolution"--in fact it means beginning the revolution here and now to the extent possible.
		Therefore, any policy proposal coming from the state apparatus and the mainstream political parties, regardless of how convincingly it co-opts libertarian rhetoric, will be intended to serve the interests of some faction of the ruling class, in some way enabling them to live off the labor of the producing classes.
	www.mutualist.org /id107.html (11952 words)

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		This prefigurative politics is, in fact, the very strength and vision of today\'s direct action, where the means themselves are understood to also be the ends.
		The political pressure exerted by such widespread agitation may even be able to influence current power structures to amend some of the worst excesses of their ways; the powers that be have to listen, and respond to some extent, when the voices become too numerous and too loud.
		It is time to move from protest to politics, from shutting down streets to opening up public space, from demanding scraps from those few in power to holding power firmly in all our hands.
	images.indymedia.org /imc/twincities/text/4/reclaim_th.txt (2997 words)

	Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada
		Although the actual participants in the debate developed this notion in different directions politically, to me it always seemed clear that the implication of the debate was that we could not think of revolution as taking place through the state, or in other words, that we had to try and develop an anti-state Marxism.
		That means, of course, an anti-state politics, not in the sense of having nothing at all to do with the state â” which would be very difficult for most of us â” but in the sense of recognizing that the state is a form of social organization which negates self-determination.
		He is quite explicit in stating that he is not political, and yet is part of a horizontally run factory and spends his spare time speaking to workers all over about how they too can take over their work place.
	www.leftturn.org /Articles/PrintableView.aspx?id=797 (3096 words)

	Documento sin título
		Prefigurative politics of this sort is not simply an alternative means to reaching the same end.
		This is partly a question of developing a practical and prefigurative politics through which, as we have seen, new cultures of politics are starting to develop.
		In that context, relations with existing political institutions will be judged according to how far these they behave with a genuine modesty, showing that they recognise the need to learn and support from the movements (see the article by Hilary Wainwright).
	www.euromovements.info /newsletter/intro.htm (3635 words)

	UK Watch - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		First the issue of the infrastructure of the Forum: its physical architecture, the organisation of the translation, the management of the knowledge generated, and the way finances are administered – including the relation of free labour and the social economy to services bought commercially from the corporate economy.
		Prefigurative politics of this sort is understood not simply an alternative means to reaching the same end.
		In that context, relations with existing political institutions will be judged according to how far they behave with a genuine modesty, showing that they recognise the need to learn and support from the movements.
	www.ukwatch.net /article/1140 (1867 words)

	Harbinger - Prefigurative Politics in the Pro-Democracy Movement
		Although it was plagued by slavery and gender oppression, 30% of the population was involved in the democracy and they valued their political life above all else.
		After the last paddy wagon has left the streets the political space that we have temporarily wrestled from the hands of the state returns to a busy commercial district, gentrified neighborhood, or industrial park.
		It is not enough to ask, or even demand, that politicians or CEOs reform the facade of a fundamentally corrupt political and economic system, a system in which we have no direct political power.
	www.social-ecology.org /harbinger/vol2no1/prefigurative.html (1670 words)

	Sexual Politics for Ourselves
		I think there is a big problem in the way that the Party's hierarchical structures and centralism inhibit the development of the kind of prefigurative political organising and relationships that have developed outside the 'organised Left' and that are central to realising this new language and politics.
		I think it reflects both the newness and the nature of this politics of masculinity that we must start by becoming conscious of ourselves as men, as sexual emotional beings in order to redefine masculinity and what it means to be a man.
		A politics based on guilt, self-denial or service in the cause of others will never move into the mainstream, either in its own right or as a supportive politics for feminism.
	www.achillesheel.freeuk.com /article08_16.html (1733 words)

	AoIR Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The ways in which activists have responded to this dilemma on-line helps us understand not just the balance between prefigurative politics and the capacity of act with efficiency, but more broadly how ‘participation’ is constituted and contested in the context of CMC.
		As we would expect, however, participation in environmental activism is not merely a matter of opportunity and consequently there is limited evidence to suggest that CMC use has resulted in new mobilisations or a shift in the social bases of activism.
		It is these groups who often suffer from a lack of resources but were able to be more inventive and experimental in using the technology because of their ideology and free-flowing organisational structure.
	gsb.haifa.ac.il /~sheizaf/AOIR5/440.html (494 words)

	all4all.org \| The Archaic Burden on the Global Movement
		It is an attempt to Â move from movement to society through a language and a political practice that dissolve the distinctions between the inside and outside of the movement.
		My belief is that the best features of this movement, features which, paradoxically, have inspired the WSF itself, are anti-statism, anti-capitalism, prefigurative politics (building a new world in the shell of the old) and its network form.
		These new political developments, however informal and loose, are inspiring a whole new generation of activists and social movements, and are producing some of the most important political transformations in recent history.
	www.all4all.org /2005/02/1475.shtml (1864 words)

	Nonviolence info here at en.bloggingall.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a moral philosophy that rejects the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political change.
		The first justification for nonviolence is sometimes referred to as principled or ethical nonviolence, while the second is known as pragmatic or strategic.
		When Gandhi said that, "the means may be likened to the seed, the end to a tree," he expressed the philosophical kernel of what some refer to as prefigurative politics.
	en.bloggingall.info /Nonviolence (2234 words)

	COMMUNITY ORGANIZING OR ORGANIZING COMMUNITY
		The women-centered model, however, approaches politics from an experience and consciousness of the exclusionary qualities of the public-private sphere split, which becomes embedded in a matrix of domination along structural axes of gender, race, and social class and hides the signficance of women's work in local settings.
		The activists began to recognize their shared gender oppression as they confronted the sarcasm and contempt of male political officials and industry representatives--who dismissed their human concerns as "irrational, uninformed, and disruptive" (44)--and restrictions on their organizing created by their family's needs.
		These leaders can transform social networks into a political force, and demonstrate how the particular skills that women learn in their families and communities (e.g., interpersonal skills, planning and coordination, conflict mediation) can be translated into effective public sphere leadership.
	comm-org.wisc.edu /papers96/gender2.html (11434 words)

	Professor Ivor Goodson - Mediation is the Message
		The strategic politics is: you take a new situation and you work out a way in which your beliefs are reactivated in the new situation.
		And he says the other possibility is what he calls prefigurative politics, where you find, once again, a room or space where all of those things that you believe in can be done.
		So that´s different in a way from strategic politics, that´s saying this is my honest belief, this is how I deal with people, I believe in all to be equal, and in second stage it means that you act equally with them.
	www.ivorgoodson.com /s-Mediation (972 words)

	THE STRUCTURE AND PROCESS OF PEACE MOVEMENT ORANIZATIONS: EFFECTS ON PARTICIPATION
		The creation of nonviolent social structures within PMO's may be characterized as "prefigurative" politics, as opposed to "strategic" politics (Breines 1980).
		In her analysis of New Left organizations, Breines (1980) explains that prefigurative politics gave rise to the creation within movement organizations of relationships that "prefigure" the desired future society.
		Prefigurative politics dictate forms of organization that tend to be found in grass-roots peace movement organizations.
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/89-8.htm (5598 words)

	Amazon.com: Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s: Books: Barbara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Any political history of the Reagan era should rely on this book to counter the notion that Reaganism remained ideologically unchallenged throughout the 1980s." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		Cultural revolution, the transformation not just of economic or political structures but of the ideas that govern social life as a whole, has been a continuing theme in protest politics in the United States, sometimes prominent, sometimes submerged.
		Political history will be made when Kinky Friedman become governor of Texas.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520084330?v=glance (924 words)

	sandiego.indymedia.org \| Breaking Free of the Protest Mentality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		There seems to be a lack of prefigurative politics, or even an understanding of what that means.
		Prefigurative politics is based on the notion that the "future society" is how we act in the present, what kinds of interactions, processes, structures, institutions, and associations we create right now, and how we live our lives.
		Political power always comes from the people wether from action or inaction.
	sandiego.indymedia.org /es/2002/07/1814.shtml (3455 words)

	The Union Makes Us Strong - Cambridge University Press
		Focusing on the routine work practices and political culture of San Francisco's longshore union, it argues that collective bargaining does not eliminate contests over shopfloor control.
		The collectively bargained contract is shown to be a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement between management and labor.
		Constructing and maintaining the appearance of cooperation; Conclusion: the ILWU: trade union exceptionalism or prefigurative politics?; Appendix; Bibliography.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521450055&print=y (559 words)

	ANARCHISM AND POLITICAL THEORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The first part, “Explaining Anarchism”, argues that it should be addressed primarily as a political culture, with distinct forms of organisation, campaigning and direct action repertoires, and political discourse and ideology.
		Anarchist ideological discourse is analysed with attention to key concepts such as “domination” and “prefigurative politics”, with attention to the avowedly open-ended, experimental nature of the anarchist project.
		Leadership in anarchist politics is addressed through sustained attention to the concept of power, proposing an agenda for equalising access to influence among activists, and an “ethic of solidarity” around the wielding of non-coercive power.
	ephemer.al.cl.cam.ac.uk /~gd216/uri (353 words)

	soundbites
		It was a time of reconsidering the way we lived, the way we behaved toward people in this country and abroad.
		Sixties movements were grounded in a democratic vision that is as compelling today as it was then: a belief that all people should be full members of society, that individuals become empowered through meaningful social participation, and that politics ought to be grounded on respect and compassion for the individual person.
		Sixties politics were infused with a quest for community — the sense of place, belonging, and purpose gained from engagement with others.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/jbr2/jbr2-soundbites.html (607 words)

	Free Society Collective
		Ace McArleton and Cindy Milstein have been involved in a variety of radical political and educational projects, and are currently both members of the Free Society Collective and Black Sheep Books collective in central Vermont.
		He is also engaged in anticapitalist, antiauthoritarian political work in central Vermont as a member of the Free Society Collective and the Queer Liberation Army.
		To that end, we engage in a politics of resistance that simultaneously highlights a reconstructive vision.
	www.freesocietycollective.org /archives/001680.html (983 words)

	ja #38750 #26292 #21147 msg Peace ...
		While often used as a synonym for pacifism pacifism, since the mid 20th century the term nonviolence has come to embody a diversity of techniques for waging social conflict without the use of violence, as well as the underlying political and philosophical rationale for the use of these techniques.
		When Gandhi said that “the means may be likened to the seed, the end to a tree,” he expressed the philosophical kernal of what some refer to as “prefigurative politics prefigurative politics”.
		Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky, Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon, and Malcolm X Malcolm X were fervent critics of nonviolence, arguing variously that nonviolence and pacifism are an attempt to impose the morals of the bourgeoisie bourgeoisie upon the proletariat proletariat, or that violence is a necessary accompaniment to revolutionary change.
	www.biodatabase.de /Nonviolence (1221 words)

	Circumstances of Justice: what happened to society?
		The anti-capitalist movement adheres to what has been called prefigurative politics: that other possible world is the end, but the means must be relative to it.
		It is an anti-authoritarian movement that is not blind to the advantages of a hierarchy of skills, but the skilful do not withhold business secrets: skill-sharing events are very common in the movement and responsibilities are rotated accordingly to distribute and diffuse power with a view to overcome domination.
		The scope within which real politics can unfold, are, on that view, limited by the difficulties of reaching agreements that are imposed by the 'circumstances of justice', as they unfold in Hume's Treatise.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /ug/pedersen/drafts/edinburgh_paper.html (5113 words)

	Introduction to D. Pope, American Radicalism reader
		However (and this is the heart of the radical dilemma) often electoral politics appeared to be "the only game in town," worth fighting to get into and playing with fervor once inside.
		Contending against business unionism, consumerism, a rhetoric of equality and classlessness from the political mainstream, and the homogenizing effects of popular culture, radicals have usually been the ones to stress that the nation has been divided.
		Their appeals for the unity of the working class may have been simplistic, unrealistic or unheard, but when attention to social class divisions is absent from the nation's agenda, political debate is thereby impoverished.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dapope/Introduction--book.htm (5216 words)

	The Wesleyan Argus - Anti-war politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Across the world, from Iraq to Afghanistan to New York, military and government intelligence agencies, and/or their international interlocutors, have detained and interrogated tens of thousands of people.
		Prefigurative politics are essential to building a social movement which does not simply remake the same systems of domination and oppression already present within society at large.
		These considerations remain essential -- not peripheral -- to any anti-war politics; witness the demise of SPIN (Students for Peace in Iraq Now) during the outbreak of war, spring 2003.
	www.wesleyanargus.com /article.php?article_id=1775 (736 words)

	Open-Source Streaming Translations in Porto Alegre
		First, here is a short description from Babels, the international network of volunteer interpreters and translators, as told in this article from the January 2005 issue of Red Pepper (scroll towards the middle of the article).
		This issue of re-appropriation of knowledge is closely linked to the political perspective of developing local production in an economy based on solidarity.
		The Nomad network is not a technical service provider but a political network run on a voluntary basis.
	www.primidi.com /2005/01/31.html (646 words)

	H-Net Review: James Farrell on The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity and the New ...
		Rossinow presents a case study of Sixties activism from the University of Texas, beginning in the peculiar postwar politics of that great state, and concluding in the national politics of the 1970s.
		By the end of the decade, the emphasis on authenticity, coupled with the intransigence of the political "System" and the factionalism of the Left, led activists to an emphasis on cultural change through counter-cultural living.
		I don't think that anyone is likely to characterize the politics of the Nineties as a "politics of authenticity." But authenticity might be preferable to the polling and "spin control" that propel the lies and evasions of contemporary politics.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28741905267699 (1379 words)

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