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“We produce and enable the institutional conditions for “the Lucifer effect” to play itself out. “The banality of evil” is such that these politicians are just doing their jobs in a system that rewards perversions of power, because it is designed to serve the laws of capitalism.”

“Prefigurative politics are explicitly anti-liberal. They are a seizing of the means as OUR means, a means without end. To prefigure is to embrace the conviviality and joy that comes with being together as radical equals… not on the path toward the transcendental utopia or “no place,” but as the grounded immanence of the HERE and NOW of actually making a new world…”

Learning about fighting neoliberalism with prefigurative politics

“As we were plunged headlong into the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment in time that had awoken collective human consciousness to the fragility of our systems of organizing (i.e., states and capitalism) in ways that we couldn’t have foreseen only a few short months ago… It would seem that when shit hits the fan, everyone becomes an anarchist.”

“As we come to a greater understanding of the local and the global as intimately interconnected, my greatest wish is that this book will play a small part in facilitating the translation of local resistance into renewed forms of global action toward a better tomorrow.”

“He claimed that my use of profanity was akin to pornography and an embarrassment for the university.”