All That Is Meaningful Is Imaginary

I have created the following diagram of possible ideologies (inside the square) and utopias (outside the square) in the 21st Century as part of the first appendix to my mid-term essay in Idéologie et société (SOC 4709) with Diane Pacom – a course that is highly relevant to my interests, and to this blog. [Click [...]

Politics, in the end, are ethics : the quest for the “common good” that defines politics presupposes an understanding of what is “good” and what is “bad”. And the current world, despite its obsession with “rationality”, still fundamentally takes into account moral ideals such as “security” and/or “freedom”, “equality” and/or “opportunity”.

For quite a while now, I have been thinking about what could constitute a realistic transitory system to reach anarcho-communism, while avoiding the need for the dictatorship/bloody revolution heralded by Marx as the easiest way to implement communism. Recent debates allowed me to develop what I believe to be such a system.