Making Paths By Walking: Notes on Prefigurative Economics in the Now.

Joshua Stevens

Within the anarchist tradition, worker self-management has functioned
as a sort of conventional reconstructive economic vision. But as a
container for social transformation, especially while so many
destructive forces shape and speak through us -- often well outside
the sphere of production relations -- is this model, and the
conversation it often produces, adequate? What other questions might
our chosen flavor of workplace organization pose? What is its
relationship to the communities in which it's carried out?What does it
communicate to the social body outside the proverbial shop floor?
What is its role in movement building? What points of intervention
does it reveal? What does the contemporary economic landscape offer
possible radical interventions in production/service/consumption. And
what does it say about us as a social movement we think of resistance
strictly in terms of protest, rather than field of activity that
includes the construction of new forms?