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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? ==== |
- | === An 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** | + | Naomi Klein has 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 a plausible account of how to get there from here. But is "Another World" REALLY possible? |
- | //For full access to this Wiki or other questions, send email to [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]// | + | To answer that question, we have decided to perform a thought experiment. Our premise: if there is even one 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 2118, in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2018 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. |
- | 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 a plausible account of how to get there from here. But is "Another World" REALLY possible? | + | Our ongoing Future Historians seminar has been meeting since September 2017. At present we are holding monthly online seminars with participants across a dozen time zones – from California to Moscow — including participants in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Vermont, Paris, and Morocco. |
- | To answer that question, we have decided to perform a thought experiment. Our premise: if there is even one 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 then-unforeseen 1917 Russian 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 goal is to create collectively a popular utopian fiction (working title //Then, Now and How//), in the tradition of Bellamy's //Looking Backward// (1888) and Morris's //News from Nowhere// (1890). The popularity of these utopias brought to life a new socialist movement at the end of the 19th Century. We hope that //Then, Now and How// will also go viral, inspire its readers with hope for the future, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
- | Our ongoing Future Historians seminar has been meeting since September 2017. At present (October 2018) we are holding monthly online seminars with participants across a dozen time zones – from California to Moscow — including participants in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Vermont, Paris, and Morocco. | + | Join us! All power to the imagination! |
- | **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. | + | For further information, read [[about-us|About Us]]. To begin, read [[To the youth|To the Youth of 2118]].\\ |
+ | For full access to this Wiki or other questions, send email to [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]// | ||
- | **Our goal**: Create a popular utopian fiction (working title //THEN, NOW and HOW//), in the tradition of Bellamy's //Looking Backward// (1888) and Morris's //News from Nowhere// (1890). The popularity of these utopias brought to life a new socialist movement at the end of the 19th Century. We hope that //THEN, NOW and HOW// will also go viral, inspire its readers with hope for the future, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. | ||
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- | Join us! All power to the imagination! | ||
- | For further information, read [[about-us|About Us]]. To begin, read [[To the youth|To the Youth of 2118]]. | ||