Everyday Movement Against Capitalism

Everyday Movement Against Capitalism

Alexander Riccio

Alexander Riccio

Graduate student in ethnic studies at Oregon State University more

Movement Strategy & History
Highly creative and provocative essay that looks at Marx’s ideas about alienation and connects the idea of an open utopia to a current day movement-building approach.

—Dayna Cunningham, Next System Project Essay Contest Judge

Navigating a course between the unproductive orthodoxy of “blueprint utopias” and “burnout utopias” that remain mired in ineffective small scale experiments, Alexander Riccio’s second place graduate entry in our Next System Project Essay Competition explores how “strategy and prefiguration complement each other as means to liberation.” 

 

Alexander Riccio

Alexander Riccio

Graduate student in ethnic studies at Oregon State University more

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