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-{{:​green-future.jpg?​200|Another World}}====== Is Another World REALLY Possible? ​======+{{:​green-future.jpg?​200|Another World}}==== ​Future Historians: ​Is Another World REALLY Possible? ====
  
-===== 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 
-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?  
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 +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.  
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 +For further information,​ read [[about-us|About Us]]. To begin, read [[To the youth|To the Youth of 2118]]. 
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 +For full access to this Wiki or other questions, send email to [[mailto:​AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]//​
  
-Sponsored by **Marxist Education Project** and **Victor Serge Foundation** 
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-2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” we need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful, egalitarian,​ democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet in the year 2117.  Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here - today’s capitalist death-spiral - to there - a livable, sustainable,​ global society free of oppression and exploitation. We are meeting weekly, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones - including philosopher **Peter Hudis** in Chicago, scientist **David Schwartzman** in Washington, DC, social ecologist **Brian Tokar** in Vermont, and philosopher **Samuel Day Fassbinder** in southern California - with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world with the potential to go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. 
  
-**Richard Greeman**, lifelong internationalist,​ is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). 
  
-For more information,​ refer to our [[https://​www.dropbox.com/​s/​n84j8ns87orau2l/​2%20Syllabus_AnotherWorld.docx?​dl=0|Syllabus]],​ contact [[mailto:​AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]] and visit our [[https://​www.facebook.com/​Another-World-is-Possible-NYC-474562302901538/​|Facebook page]]. 
  
-[[then_and_now|Let'​s Begin]] 
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