Why revolution could be back on the agenda

August 21, 2011

A thought-provoking article, arguing that social movements could eventually “return us to a higher form of the communistic relations of our hunter-gatherer ancestors”, is published here, and I recommend it. The article, by Mark Kosman, is quite short but covers a huge amount of ground – too much to flesh out its points in detail, but enough to raise some gigantic questions about the meaning of “socialism” or “communism” that are too often taken for granted. Read the rest of this entry »