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Central to the concept of interstitial revolution is the perspective of seeing the state as a complex multitude of institutions organized by a dominant power structure, but not so integrated that it controls all activities within it. Interstitial theorists suggest that within this system, radically
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points out that there may be boundaries to the growth of an interstitial movement in which the most adept strategies of collective economic and social pressure are not enough to overcome the power of capitalist hegemony. He suggests in this case it may be necessary to resort to a more traditional
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institutions, working on their own or in tandem, can then use their social and economic power along with traditional forms of struggle to outmaneuver and erode limits to their growth imposed by capitalist institutions, thereby creating more space for collective economic and political power.
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form of "ruptural" revolution. However, he stresses that a substantial network of democratically run organizations is a key foundation to any revolution that wishes to yield a result of deepening democracy and creating the conditions for human flourishing.
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is a theoretical means of societal transformation through progressively and strategically enlarging spaces of social empowerment. Interstitial revolution (or transformation) builds on the concept of
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would function as a normal bank with the exception that it would give loans primarily to organized workers who wished to collectively purchase their employer's company in order to start a
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and have attempted to construct models of societal transformation utilizing interstitial devices as an alternative to the traditional Marxist theory of revolution.
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Interstitial theorists state that over time, enough progressive struggles and victories could potentially lead to the overcoming of the capitalist state.
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which has a long history in anti-capitalist thinking, going back nearly two hundred years in the anarchist tradition.
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which declared: "By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the old."
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suggests that the first stage of an interstitial revolution could be starting a cooperative bank. A
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This has classically been the approach recommended by several theorists of
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is neatly summed up by the early twentieth century Constitution of the
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prefigurative politics
Prefigurativism
Industrial Workers of the World
social anarchism
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Gustav Landauer
Paul Goodman
Murray Bookchin
John Holloway
Erik Olin Wright
prefigurativism
Worker owned cooperatives
egalitarian
Erik Olin Wright
Wright
cooperative bank
worker owned cooperative
"Preamble to the IWW Constitution | Industrial Workers of the World"
"Interstitial Revolution: On the explosive fusion of negativity and hope"
"Interstitial Transformation"
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978-1-84467-618-7
"Moving Against-and-Beyond or Interstitial Revolution"


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LookLeft Forum: Erik Olin Wright
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