“Reform vs. Revolution” can be a false dichotomy within the context of real Leftist conversation sometimes.

We like the concept of “non-reformist reforms” that Kali Akuno of @CooperationJXN explains in one “Jackson Rising” excerpt, so we’ve decided to share it with quotes below.

“None of the system(s) change processes we aim to make can or will be sustained in a non-revolutionary context without structural support and reinforcement from the state.“

”The structural support and reinforcement in question entails legal justification, incentives, resource allocation ... monitoring and enforcement from operatives of the state and civil society, meaning civilian institutions that monitor the conduct and performance of government.“

“These transformative policy components are fundamentally articulations of ‘non-reformist reforms’. The notion of non-reformist reforms, although conceptually far older than its articulation, was first concretely formulated by Andre Gorz, a French socialist...”

“[Gorz] posed the formulation as a means to bridge our short-term engagements for social justice in everyday life to our longer-term vision for an anti-capitalist world.”

“The formulation centers on waging struggle for demands and reforms that improve conditions in people’s immediate lives, but which don’t strengthen the capitalist system, but instead subvert its logic, upend its social relations, and dilute its strength.“

”These reforms seek to create new logics, new relations, and new imperatives that create a new equilibrium and balance of forces to weaken capitalism and enable the development of an anti-capitalist alternative.”

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