This ten part essay by Patrick Reinsborough explores a wide range of innovative social change strategies and ideas including post-issue activism, direct action at the point of assumption and the politics of reality.
DE-COLONIZING THE REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATION
Values Crisis, the Politics of Reality and why there’s Going to be a Common Sense Revolution in this Generation
i. introduction: post-issue activism
Our planet is heading into an unprecedented global crisis. The blatancy of the corporate power grab and the accelerating ecological meltdown is evidence that we do not live in an era where we can afford the luxury of fighting the symptoms. As is often …