Slow and Steady…

Mitchell and Bree from the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society (CAPES) came to Austin the weekend of October 10th. Mitchell was taking part in the FlowTV media conference, including moderating a panel discussion on the conversion to digital TV. Fortunately we found enough free time to hang out and chat about parecon and how we were organizing toward it (facilitated in no small part by them crashing at my apartment).

A couple of things about the visit:

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So, assuming we’re right about ParSoc, which we are, this now seems to me to be mostly a question about organizing. I think part of our efforts should certainly be to push amenable left activists and organizations to pursue questions of long-term vision more seriously. But for most people I just can’t see this resonating much. That doesn’t mean our efforts shouldn’t be informed by vision, we just have to find other ways to incorporate those insights rather than using it as the hook and central organizing principle.

For example, let’s think of two groups and how we might talk to someone about them.

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I wanted to give a shout out to Dan for setting up this here fancy blog and also for getting the aggregator at Planet Parecon going. I think the latter could become a great tool for those of us keyed into ParSoc to connect and grow. I’m looking forward to hearing some different points of view as well as just finding out what people are doing.