Note: this is a list on the age-old question of “what is to be done” in order to transform society from top to bottom. It will be regularly updated as I find new useful or interesting stuff. These are ‘materials’ I have find interesting or relevant for thinking and discussing about this crucial issue. Obviously, this doesn’t mean I agree with everything these people/groups say…
- Community, Democracy, and Mutual Aid: Toward Dual Power and Beyond – by John Michael Colón, Mason Herson-Hord, Katie S. Horvath, Dayton Martindale, & Matthew Porges
- Les mesures communistes: penser un horizon communiste – by Léon de Mattis
- The Red and the Black (Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?) – by Seth Ackerman
- For Marx’s views on Socialism:
- Peter Hudis wrote a full book on this, but you can simply read (his) very nice summaries here or here
- Watch this playlist by Red Plateaus: Marx on Human Development, Freedom, Alienation and Socialism
- Decentralized Economic Coordination: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom – by Kevin Carson
- and his Response to Aurora Apolito‘s article (in the same symposium)
- Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century – by Kevin Carson
- Agency & Other Anarchist Themes in Paul Goodman’s Work – by Kevin Carson
- Governance, Agency and Autonomy: Anarchist Themes in the Work of Elinor Ostrom – by Kevin Carson
- Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition – by Kevin Carson
- Hayek’s Fatal Conceit – by Kevin Carson
- Expropriation of the Expropriators – by Jacob Blumenfeld
- How to Make a Pencil – by Aaron Benanav
- Making a Living (The history of what we call work) – by Aaron Benanav
- How Socialism Can Organize Production Without Money – by Adam Buick & Pieter Lawrence
- Intercommunalism: The Late Theorizations of Huey P. Newton – Delio Vasquez
- And Newton’s 1974 text: Intercommunalism
- Anarchy Works – Peter Gelderloos
- The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below – Peter Gelderloos
- Exercise: What Would an Anarchist Program Look Like? – CrimethInc
- The Conquest of Bread – Piotr Kropotkin
- Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution – Group of International Communists of Holland (GIK)
- Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto Press, 2023) – M.E. O’Brien
- To Abolish the Family: The Working-Class Family and Gender Liberation in Capitalist Development (Endnotes 5, 2019) – M.E. O’Brien
- Communizing Care (Pinko #1, October 15 2019) – M.E. O’Brien
- Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso, 2019) – Sophie Lewis
- Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso, 2022) – Sophie Lewis