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I suppose I ought to read this. It’s the basis of the argument in the Lundström book. I’m getting so worn out on (and wary of) of Eurocentric conceptions of democracy, freedom, and participation though. I would love for any of these Euro-US accounts of collaborative/collective governance to actually trace roots to, for example, ANY of the accounts in Isakhan and Stockwell. Or Kimmerer for that matter. Or Deloria.

Spotted at Room of One’s Own. Great writer writing about a great musician. Should make time for this cause it’ll be really enjoyable.

I went straight to her essay about industrial organization and the casual dropping of Rochdale principles was the cooperative economics connection I was not expecting!

While these days I’m hearing more and more-convincing critique of white anarchism from my abolitionist friends, I guess I am choosing to read about Swedish anarchism cause I continue to struggle with the value and concept of “democracy” versus liberty vs freedom vs justice vs equity… so I’m giving this a go.

@whatanerd If I ever get out from under the ludicrous workload that is my current teaching work, I’d love to help out. I used to be quite a decent audio editor.

@whatanerd I am really enjoying these excepts you are posting. Following along, it seems you are pointing at a particular claim about school more broadly… are you intending to gather these quotes for a piece of writing or podcast or something? I’d really like to see / hear anything that comes out of this…

So this is getting really interesting, reading this alongside Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Questions about utopian visions of family and school resonate across to histories of cultural genocide by residential schools. The Terra Nullius of Anarres, open to be colonized by the white feminist anarchist imagination — there are no questions about indigeneity or conquest (yet). Looking forward to finishing both and pulling these threads apart and together.

A couple years ago I had a student who excitedly told me about how a teacher at her old school had introduced her to this amazing author who was now her very very favorite. Friends, that teacher had introduced her to Ayn Rand (aka Wario to Dorothy Day’s Mario). I bought a paperback copy of The Dispossessed online immediately with the hopes of turning the tide… but the student and her family had moved away before the book arrived. I kept it and am now reading it for a book club, and hoping that student found someone else down the road to steer her away from the ugliness of Randism.