E. D. wrote the following text as an introduction to the Radical Education Department. RED is holding the first in a series of events Wednesday, July 11th at 7 p.m. at Wooden Shoe in Philadelphia (704 South St.): “Building a Revolutionary Coalition in Philly.” I will be attending.
I have always strongly believed in the importance of collective organizing and institution-building in order to maximize our agency by working with others to construct platforms for the future. In my various experiences organizing and founding alternative institutions, however, I have also come to learn that many projects never get off of the ground because they are all too quickly ensnared in the bramble of petty debate. This can include such things as individuals being more invested in their subjective preoccupations than in collective action or—particularly in intellectual circles—the sophistication Olympics, in which pedantic posturing and problematization exercise their domineering, disheartening and imperial rule over anything practical, tactical or productive. When a group of us came together so seamlessly to contest the promotion of white supremacist misogyny and top-down class warfare on a conservative college campus, it struck me that we had the baseline of shared convictions that would allow us to move ahead productively with other projects.
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Building a Revolutionary Coalition in Philly
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