Sponsored by Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation

Participants as of Nov 15, 2117 include: Anya Rebrii,Ukraine/NY, activist and anthropology student; Lola Girerd, Paris, writer and social psychologist; Brian Tokar, Vermont, Institute of Social Ecology, activist, author of Toward Climate Justice; Jenny Greeman, NY, Actor and educator; Peter Hudis, Chicago, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist, author of Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism and Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades; Silvia Federici, veteran feminist, author of Caliban and the Witch; Jason Hicks, NYC transit worker, union activist, DSA member, philosopher; Julia Guseva, Moscow, translator of Victor Serge, anarcho-syndicalist activist, co-founder of Praxis Center; Harry Halpin, Paris, Internet revolutionary and activist, team member World Wide Web Consortium, author of Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web; Alexei Gusev, Moscow, Historian of Russian Oppositions, Chair of Praxis Center ; Maati Monjib, Rabat, Morocco, historian of Africa and press freedom activist, currently facing 5 years in prison as an opponent of the Monarchy; David Schwartzman, DC biogeochemist, Green Party activist, author: “Solar Communism” and Life, Temperature, and the Earth; Samuel Day Fassbinder, author of Greening the Academy and scholar of Marx and utopianism; Fred Murphy, ecosocialism group leader at the Marxist Education Project and DSA climate-justice activist; Richard Gumbo, writer, New York/New Orleans; Barry Feldman, Chicago; and Dan Hort, artistic producer and progressive entrepreneur.

Convened by Richard Greeman, veteran international socialist active in U.S., France, Russia, Latin America, North Africa; best known as translator and scholar of the Franco-Russian revolutionary writer Victor Serge (1890-1947)

In 2017 Naomi Klein reminded us that “No is not enough.” To save the planet from impending catastrophe, people need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. In other words, a credible picture of a possible Utopia and plausible account of how to get there from here. But is “Another World” REALLY possible?

To answer that question, we have decided to perform a thought experiment. Our premise: if there is even once chance in a hundred for a better world – we ought to be able at least to imagine it. So we place ourselves in the position of future historians living in the year 2117 in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (on the bi-centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct HOW our great-grandparents got us from THEN - today’s capitalist death-spiral - to NOW - a sustainable, egalitarian global society free of war, oppression and exploitation.

Our ongoing Future Historians seminar has been meeting since September 24, 2017. We gather in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across a dozen time zones – from L.A. California to Moscow, Russia - including participants in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, Paris and Rabat, Morocco.

Our process : examine the historical evidence and collectively piece together a plausible picture of our possible better world and the roads that led to it. One rule: no gods, no extra-terrestials.

Our goal: create a popular utopian fiction in the tradition of Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) and Morris' News from Nowhere, books whose popularity brought to life a new socialist movement at the end of the 19th Century. Weave together a fictional ecotopia with the potential to go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Join us! All power to the imagination!

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In our weekly international online Future Historians seminars we pretend that we're historians putting together a centennial history book for the teenagers of 2117.  We are constructing utopias, if you will, but we are also explaining how we got here (a peaceful, cooperative world society in 2117) from there (the catastrophes of 2017). We're a group from a wide variety of backgrounds, spread out from L.A. to Moscow, including a subway track worker, some students, a businessman, a few academics and various old radicals. Unlike so many Leftists, we don't argue or denounce each other, although we have many differing viewpoints. For this simple reason: Viewed from 2117 we see the complimentarity of the different roads leading to the Emergence of the new society from the shell of the old (for example ‘reform’ and ‘revolution’).

For more information, refer to our Syllabus, contact AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com and visit our Facebook page.

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