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A Civil Society Strategy For Revitalizing The Left, Stephen D'Arcy Sep 2011

A Civil Society Strategy For Revitalizing The Left, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

The case for a community-based anti-capitalist strategy.


Strategy, Meta-Strategy, And Anti-Capitalist Activism, Stephen J. D'Arcy Dec 2008

Strategy, Meta-Strategy, And Anti-Capitalist Activism, Stephen J. D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

Whereas Marxism is a theory, or rather a cluster of theories, Leninism is something else: a political strategy. And as Lenin himself pointed out, strategies are neither true nor false, but only effective nor ineffective, depending largely on the context within which they are carried out. In the context of contemporary North America, however, the adoption by radical activists of the standard Leninist norms for anti-capitalist organizing would be counter-productive. What is needed now is a very different approach: a strategy of attrition, as Lenin would have said, rather than a strategy of overthrow. This article concludes by sketching an …


The Militant Protester As Model Citizen, Stephen D'Arcy Dec 2007

The Militant Protester As Model Citizen, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

Argues the militancy is a civic virtue.


Deliberative Democracy, Direct Action, And Animal Advocacy, Stephen D'Arcy Dec 2006

Deliberative Democracy, Direct Action, And Animal Advocacy, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

No abstract provided.