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 {{:​green-future.jpg?​200|Another World}}==== Future Historians: Is Another World REALLY Possible? ==== {{:​green-future.jpg?​200|Another World}}==== Future Historians: Is Another World REALLY Possible? ====
  
-**International Study Group and Collaborative Writing Project** +**International Study Group and Collaborative Writing Project**\\  
-  +sponsored ​by Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation ​/ convened by Richard Greeman
-Sponsored ​by **Marxist Education Project** and **Victor Serge Foundation**+
  
-Convened by **Richard Greeman**+=== About Us ===
  
-//For full access to this Wiki or other questionssend email to [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]//+For more than a year, starting in September 2017, our Future Historians seminar met on a weekly ​or monthly basisboth in-person in New York City, and via online teleconferencing across a dozen time zones. Participants ranged from California ​to Moscow and points in between, including Paris, France; Rabat, Morocco; and Vermont, Washington DC, Chicago, and California. Videos of these sessions are available on our [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjQ6Ku50OfG1XP1j0OHEyQ/​videos?​disable_polymer=1|YouTube Channel]].
  
-=== Who We Are ===+Our convener is **Richard Greeman**, veteran international socialist active in the US, France, Russia, Latin America, and North Africa; best known as translator and scholar of the Franco-Russian revolutionary writer Victor Serge (1890-1947). Future Historians include or have included: **Samuel Day Fassbinder**,​ author of //Greening the Academy// and scholar of Marx and utopianism; **Silvia Federici**, veteran feminist, author of //Caliban and the Witch//; **Lola Girerd**, Paris, writer and social psychologist;​ **Jenny Greeman**, NY, actor and educator; **Alexei Gusev**, Moscow, Historian of Russian Oppositions,​ Chair of Praxis Center; **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//; **Jason Hicks**, NYC transit worker, union activist, DSA member, philosopher;​ **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//;​ **Maati Monjib**, Rabat, Morocco, historian of Africa and press-freedom activist, currently facing five years in prison as an opponent of the monarchy; **Fred Murphy**, NY, ecosocialism group leader at the Marxist Education Project and DSA climate-justice activist; **Anya Rebrii**, Ukraine/NY, activist and anthropology student; **David Schwartzman**, ​ biogeochemist,​ DC Green Party activist, author of “Solar Communism” and //Life, Temperature,​ and the Earth//; and **Brian Tokar**, Vermont, Institute of Social Ecology, activist, author of //Toward Climate Justice//​. ​
  
-Our ongoing ​Future Historians ​seminar has been meeting since September 2017. At present (November 2018) we are gathering from time to time via online teleconferencing across ​dozen time zones – with participants ​from California ​to Moscow ​and points ​in between, including ParisFrance; Rabat, Morocco; ​and VermontWashington DCChicagoand California. Videos ​of our past sessions are available on our [[https://​www.youtube.com/​channel/​UCPjQ6Ku50OfG1XP1j0OHEyQ/​videos?​disable_polymer=1|YouTube Channel]].+We Future Historians ​have imagined that we are living in peaceful, egalitarian,​ sustainable world a century ​from now, in the second decade of the 2100s. Our job is to put together a centennial history book for teenagers called **//THEN AND NOW//**. We collectively research ​and discuss century-old Source Materials about capitalism’s catastrophes that were unfolding and impending ​in 2018, and the forms of resistance to them. Nextwe weave these together to present an objective picture of the unsustainable THEN (2018). Finallywe extrapolate from the evidence to reconstruct the different paths that led from THEN to NOW (2118)under the heading HOW? The results may be conceived in the form of a grid, as detailed ​[[grid-guide|here]].
  
-Future Historians include or have included: **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 five years in prison as an opponent of the monarchy; **David Schwartzman**, ​ biogeochemist,​ DC Green Party activist, author of “Solar Communism” and //Life, Temperature,​ and the Earth//; **Samuel Day Fassbinder**,​ author of //Greening the Academy// and scholar of Marx and utopianism; and **Fred Murphy**, ecosocialism group leader at the Marxist Education Project and DSA climate-justice activist. Our convener is **Richard Greeman**, veteran international socialist active in the US, France, Russia, Latin America, and North Africa; best known as translator and scholar of the Franco-Russian revolutionary writer Victor Serge (1890-1947). +In real life, we are individuals with varied viewpoints and backgrounds spread across the globe from L.A. to Moscow, including women and men, students, a subway track worker, a few academics and various longtime socialists and radicals. Unlike many leftist groups, we don't denounce each other as traitors or deviants, although we have many differing views. Why? Well, to begin with we’ve all been dead for at least sixty years. So looking backward from the perspective of 2118, we are able see the different roads as complementary ones that led to the Emergence of new societies from the shell of the old. Our picture of the future world is inclusive (of everything but capitalism),​ rather than exclusive, pluralist rather than sectarian.
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-At our international online seminars, we Future Historians imagine that we are living in a peaceful, egalitarian,​ sustainable world a century from now, in 2118. Our job is to put together a centennial history book for teenagers called **//THEN AND NOW//**. We collectively research and discuss century-old Source Materials about capitalism’s catastrophes that were unfolding and impending in 2018, and the forms of resistance to them. Next, we weave these together to present an objective picture of the unsustainable THEN (2018). Finally, we extrapolate from the evidence to reconstruct the different paths that led from THEN to NOW (2118), under the heading HOW? The results may be conceived in the form of a grid, as detailed [[grid-guide|here]]. +
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-In real life, we are individuals with varied viewpoints and backgrounds spread across the globe from L.A. to Moscow, including women and men, students, a subway track worker, a few academics and various longtime socialists and radicals. Unlike many leftist groups, we don't denounce each other as traitors or deviants, although we have many differing views. Why? Well, to begin with we’ve all been dead for at least sixty years. So looking backward from the perspective of 2118, we are able see the complimentarity of the different roads (for example “reform” and “revolution”) ​that led to the Emergence of new societies from the shell of the old. Our picture of the future world is inclusive (of everything but capitalism),​ rather than exclusive, pluralist rather than sectarian.+
  
 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. Our only rule: no gods, no extra-terrestials. 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. Our only rule: no gods, no extra-terrestials.
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 Join us in betting on a possible future – even if the odds are a hundred to one! In a world spinning madly towards perdition, what have we got to lose? Join us in betting on a possible future – even if the odds are a hundred to one! In a world spinning madly towards perdition, what have we got to lose?
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-=== Format === 
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-This is a “hybrid” project, combining readings and online discussions of each session'​s TOPIC in a live international meeting via online teleconferencing. YouTube recordings of our sessions are posted on our [[http://​bit.ly/​futurehist-vids|YouTube channel]]. 
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-Readings are uploaded to the Future Historians Dropbox. Participants prepare readings and deliver short reports on the week’s topic, and we all discuss it. Between live sessions, further discussions take place online both via comments on the documents and through a Google Groups listserv. 
  
 === How to Participate === === How to Participate ===
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 Please join us. Please join us.
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-[[then_and_now|Let'​s Begin]] 
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