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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? ===== |
| - | ===== International Study Group and Collaborative Writing Project ===== | + | === An International Study Group and Collaborative Writing Project === |
| Sponsored by **Marxist Education Project** and **Victor Serge Foundation** | Sponsored by **Marxist Education Project** and **Victor Serge Foundation** | ||
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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 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. | 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 ongoing Future Historians seminar has been meeting since September 2017. At present (May 2018) we are holding twice-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. | + | 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. |
| **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. | ||
| - | **Our goal**: Create a popular utopian fiction (working title //THEN AND NOW//), 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 AND NOW// will also go viral, inspire its readers with hope for the future, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. | + | **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. |
| Join us! All power to the imagination! | Join us! All power to the imagination! | ||
| - | For more information go to **[[about-us|About Us]]** | + | For further information, read [[about-us|About Us]]. To begin, read [[To the youth|To the Youth of 2118]]. |
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| - | Visit our [[https://www.facebook.com/Another-World-is-Possible-NYC-474562302901538/|Facebook page]]. | + | |
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