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Social Revolution

This social Platform is meant for organizing, educating, and Building Class Power in the Struggle Against Authoritarian aspects of society.

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Social Revolution

ARE you a GrassRoots or Established organization engaged in Providing Direct Services, Education, or other social needs?

Front of Struggle Process

ARE you a Political Candidate or Organization Committed to listening to the demands of grassroots Organizations?

Political Process

Power Map

Date

Location

Class

Politics

Civil Society

The State

Social Organizations

Autonomous Organizations

Laws

Regulates & Expands Control Over Social Reproduction

  • Grassroots Groups
  • Community Groups
  • Informal Social Groups

Courts

Military/Police

Non-Autonomous Organizations

  • Non-Profit Organizations
  • Political Organizations
  • Unions
  • Formal Social Organizations
  • Religious Organizations
  • Educational Organizations
Consciousness

Ensures Profits & Control Over Social Reproduction

Ensures Profits & Control Over Social Reproduction

Mode of Production and Exchange

Relations of Production

Forces of Production

Economy

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Organizations

Demands

Topic

Type of Work

Name

Location

Timebank Aggregator
Coalition Builder
Outreach Resources
Donation Page
Guide for New Collectives

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Coalitions

Topic

Type of Work

Name

Location

Timebank Aggregator
Work Groups
Add Collective
Organizer Resources
Shared Drive

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Outreach Resources

Action Builder

Timebank

Canvassing

Petitions

Flyers

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Communications

Workspace

Video Calls

Messenger

Email

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Articles

Topic

Search

Publisher

Location

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Videos

Topic

Search

Publisher

Location

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Library

Topic

Search

Publisher

Collection

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Economy

Date

Location

Production Process

ProductionProcess
ConsumptionProcess
Distribution
Exchange

In-Kind Labor

Wage-Labor

Individual or Collective Experiences
Individual or Collective Experiences
Conditions of Labor
Conditions of Labor
Occupation
Occupation

Consumption Process

Industry
Industry
Sector
Sector
Class
Class
Production

Economy

Humans
Nature
Consumption

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Power Map

Date

Location

Class

Politics

Civil Society

Consciousness
Economy

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Organizations

Demands

Topic

Type of Work

Name

Location

Timebank Aggregator
Coalition Builder
Outreach Resources
Donation Page
Guide for New Collectives

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Political Program

Demands

Topic

Type of Work

Name

Location

Timebank Aggregator
Coalition Builder
Outreach Resources
Donation Page
Guide for New Collectives

Ask

Superstructure

Political

Subjective Experiences
Civil
Consciousness
Society
ProductionProcess
ConsumptionProcess
Distribution
Exchange
Individual or Collective Experiences
Individual or Collective Experiences
Conditions of Labor
Conditions of Labor
Occupation
Occupation
Industry
Industry
Sector
Sector
Class
Class
Production

Base

Nature
Humans
Consumption

Location

Date

Historical Bloc

Mode of Production Timeline

Search

Individual or Collective Experiences

  • Base on individual intersectionalities in relation to the collective society where the individual lives

Production

(Changes Over Time)

Forces of Production: increasingly interdpendent

  • Means of Production:
    • Subjects:
      • Natural Resources, Raw Materials
    • Instruments:
      • Machines, Tools, Technology, Logistics, Farms, Mines, Factories, Realestate
  • Labor-Power:
    • Human capacity to labor

Relations of Production: increasingly individual

  • Answers question of who owns the means of subsistence/ Essentially what is defined as "property" and "ownership"
  • These are the relations between individuals in terms of who owns the forces of production and the "product" of the labor put into the production process
  • Increasing commodification and privatization of products and labor
  • Types: Cooperative, Slave, Fuedal, Capital, Communal
  • The production process is a requirement for human survival and is a precondition for human interaction.
  • Relations of Production may weaken but don't change on their own. They must be overthrown.

Class

Ruling Class or Dispossessed Class
Base

(Primarily reproduced through mute compulsion and social sufficiency)

Antagonism:

Contradiction:

  • There is a general contradiction between the forces of production (that are increasingly interdependent or social) and the relations of production (that are increasingly individual).
  • This contradiction drives the revolutionary process forward
  • The relations of production become a fetter on the development of productive forces leading to a period of regression before an era of social revolution
  • Qualitative changes begin to form around the relations of production to continue the quantitative development to the forces of production

Moment when the relations of production become "regressive"

Moment of social revolution

The development of the forces of production

Mode of Production

Sector

  • Private (a.k.a. capital)
  • Non-Profit (a.k.a. philanthropy)
  • Public (a.k.a. governmental)
  • Marginalized

Historical Bloc

Calculating Hegemony

Understanding variations in the exercise of hegemony required a political analysis attuned to the “equilibrium” of force and consent at any conjuncture. In place of the common Marxist division of economic “structure” and “superstructure”, Gramsci proposed the concept of a “historical bloc” (blocco storico). This was a composite of distinct class and social forces joined politically and culturally under a specific form of hegemony (SPN: 137). Additionally, it was possible to gauge the extent to which a class had sacrificed its “economic corporate” interests in expanding its leadership across civil society (SPN: 161). Empirical analysis of hegemony would assess the “relations of forces” that combined structures and superstructures in a historical situation (SPN: 181–85; for a discussion, see Bellamy & Schecter 1993: ch. 6).

Class

Ruling Class or Dispossessed Class
Reconstruction
Political Revolution
Radical Party Formation
Mass Uprisings
Coalitions
Vision
Political Eduction
Civil
Collective Action
Consciusness
Society

Civil Society

Housing Status:

Strategic and Tactical Questions
  • ​What are the strategies and tactics used by the ruling class within the production process.
  • What are the strategies and tactics of the ruling class within the consumption process?
  • What are the ruling class strategies and tactics that impact subjective experiences
  • What are the strategies and tactics of the ruling class in the superstructures?
  • What are the biggest weaknessness and strengths of the ruling class?
  • In what ways can you disrupt, reduce ruling class power, or gain tactical advantage over every aspect of the diagram for this specific struggle?
Superstructures

(Primarily reproduced through hegemony, division, and violence)

Political:

Social:

  • In order to maintain power, the ruling class also begins reorganizing the political structure to maintain profits and power
  • The ruling class becomes increasingly violent towards the dispossessed class as popular calls for social change increase
  • As the "regression" period of historical development occurs, social institutions are impacted first
  • The ruling class begins by cutting social wellfare programs to maintain profits which further concentrates socially produced wealth
Superstructures

(Primarily reproduced through hegemony, division, and violence)

Political:

Social:

  • In order to maintain power, the ruling class also begins reorganizing the political structure to maintain profits and power
  • The ruling class becomes increasingly violent towards the dispossessed class as popular calls for social change increase
  • As the "regression" period of historical development occurs, social institutions are impacted first
  • The ruling class begins by cutting social wellfare programs to maintain profits which further concentrates socially produced wealth

Sector

  • Private (a.k.a. capital)
  • Non-Profit (a.k.a. philanthropy)
  • Public (a.k.a. governmental)
  • Marginalized
Reconstruction
Political Revolution
Radical Party Formation
Mass Uprisings
Coalitions
Vision
Political Eduction
Civil
Collective Action
Consciusness
Society

Occupation/ Specialization/ Situation

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)
  • Managers
  • Professionals
  • Technicians and Support Professionals
  • Clerical Support Workers
  • Service and Sales Workers
  • Skilled Agricultural, Foresty, Fishing Workers
  • Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers
  • Elementary Occupations
  • Armed Forces Occupations
  • Unpaid Labor
  • Dispossessed

Conditions of Labor

  • Self-Employed
  • Salary
  • Wage (full-time)
  • Wage (part-time)
  • Freelance
  • Contract
  • Unpaid
  • Informal
  • Enslaved
  • Acapital
  • Dispossessed

Individual or Collective Experiences

  • Base on individual intersectionalities in relation to the collective society where the individual lives

Occupation/ Specialization/ Situation

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)
  • Managers
  • Professionals
  • Technicians and Support Professionals
  • Clerical Support Workers
  • Service and Sales Workers
  • Skilled Agricultural, Foresty, Fishing Workers
  • Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers
  • Elementary Occupations
  • Armed Forces Occupations
  • Unpaid Labor
  • Dispossessed

Occupation/ Specialization/ Situation

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)
  • Managers
  • Professionals
  • Technicians and Support Professionals
  • Clerical Support Workers
  • Service and Sales Workers
  • Skilled Agricultural, Foresty, Fishing Workers
  • Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers
  • Elementary Occupations
  • Armed Forces Occupations
  • Unpaid Labor
  • Dispossessed

Industry

International Standard Industrial Classifications (ISIC)
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • Mining and quarrying
  • Manufacturing
  • Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
  • Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
  • Construction
  • Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
  • Transportation and storage
  • Accommodation and food service activities
  • Information and communication
  • Financial and insurance activities
  • Real estate activities
  • Professional, scientific and technical activities
  • Administrative and support service activities
  • Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
  • Education
  • Human health and social work activities
  • Arts, entertainment and recreation
  • Other service activities
  • Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use
  • Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
  • Surplus (floating, latent, stagnant)
  • Deprived
Humans
  • Are dependent upon nature for the ability to find or produce all the needs to survive
  • Are dependent upon other humans to help find or produce all the needs to survive
  • Thus humans are in a symbiotic relationship with nature and other humans
  • Different groups of humans may produce in different ways according to their environment
Superstructures

(Primarily reproduced through hegemony, division, and violence)

Political:

Social:

  • In order to maintain power, the ruling class also begins reorganizing the political structure to maintain profits and power
  • The ruling class becomes increasingly violent towards the dispossessed class as popular calls for social change increase
  • As the "regression" period of historical development occurs, social institutions are impacted first
  • The ruling class begins by cutting social wellfare programs to maintain profits which further concentrates socially produced wealth
Humans
  • Are dependent upon nature for the ability to find or produce all the needs to survive
  • Are dependent upon other humans to help find or produce all the needs to survive
  • Thus humans are in a symbiotic relationship with nature and other humans
  • Different groups of humans may produce in different ways according to their environment

Industry

International Standard Industrial Classifications (ISIC)
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • Mining and quarrying
  • Manufacturing
  • Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
  • Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
  • Construction
  • Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
  • Transportation and storage
  • Accommodation and food service activities
  • Information and communication
  • Financial and insurance activities
  • Real estate activities
  • Professional, scientific and technical activities
  • Administrative and support service activities
  • Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
  • Education
  • Human health and social work activities
  • Arts, entertainment and recreation
  • Other service activities
  • Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use
  • Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
  • Surplus (floating, latent, stagnant)
  • Deprived

Individual or Collective Experiences

  • Base on individual intersectionalities in relation to the collective society where the individual lives

Civil Society

Political Structures

Subjective Experiences

Farahmandpur, R., & McLaren, P. (1999). Critical Multiculturalism and the Globalization of Capital: Some Implications for a Politics of Resistance. Journal of curriculum theorizing.UC Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute

Societal Situations:Structural:Institutional: Interspersonal:

  • Produced situationally in that they are related to specific times and places in rapidly changing and unstable geopolitical arenas not of our own individual making
  • Produced structurally within the system of transnational capitalism under the control of global corporations, and are impacted by the social consequences of the free market that creates uneven power dispersal within the relations of production
  • Produced institutionally through the imperializing racist patriarchal formations that make up government institutions, that are used to legitimize and maintain power for the ruling class
  • Subjectivities are also formed interpersonally through the tenacious colonial expressions that mystify the continued historical development of unequal social relations

Production

(Changes Over Time)

Forces of Production: increasingly interdpendent

  • Means of Production:
    • Subjects:
      • Natural Resources, Raw Materials
    • Instruments:
      • Machines, Tools, Technology, Logistics, Farms, Mines, Factories, Realestate
  • Labor-Power:
    • Human capacity to labor

Relations of Production: increasingly individual

  • Answers question of who owns the means of subsistence/ Essentially what is defined as "property" and "ownership"
  • These are the relations between individuals in terms of who owns the forces of production and the "product" of the labor put into the production process
  • Increasing commodification and privatization of products and labor
  • Types: Cooperative, Slave, Fuedal, Wage, In-Kind, Communal
  • The production process is a requirement for human survival and is a precondition for human interaction.
  • Relations of Production may weaken but don't change on their own. They are overthrown by the more powerful class.

Sector

  • Private (a.k.a. capital)
  • Non-Profit (a.k.a. philanthropy)
  • Public (a.k.a. governmental)
  • Marginalized

Industry

International Standard Industrial Classifications (ISIC)
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • Mining and quarrying
  • Manufacturing
  • Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
  • Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
  • Construction
  • Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
  • Transportation and storage
  • Accommodation and food service activities
  • Information and communication
  • Financial and insurance activities
  • Real estate activities
  • Professional, scientific and technical activities
  • Administrative and support service activities
  • Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
  • Education
  • Human health and social work activities
  • Arts, entertainment and recreation
  • Other service activities
  • Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use
  • Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
  • Surplus (floating, latent, stagnant)
  • Deprived

Conditions of Labor

  • Self-Employed
  • Salary
  • Wage (full-time)
  • Wage (part-time)
  • Freelance
  • Contract
  • Unpaid
  • Informal
  • Enslaved
  • Acapital
  • Dispossessed
Base

(Primarily reproduced through mute compulsion and social sufficiency)

Antagonism:

Contradiction:

  • There is a general contradiction between the forces of production (that are increasingly interdependent or social) and the relations of production (that are increasingly individual).
  • This contradiction drives the revolutionary process forward
  • Qualitative changes in the forces of production creates an antagonism with the existing relations of production
  • The productive relations become a fetter on the development of productive forces leading to a period of regression before an era of social revolution

Moment when the relations of production become "regressive"

Moment of social revolution

The development of the forces of production

Mode of Production

Conditions of Labor

  • Self-Employed
  • Salary
  • Wage (full-time)
  • Wage (part-time)
  • Freelance
  • Contract
  • Unpaid
  • Informal
  • Enslaved
  • Acapital
  • Dispossessed
Reconstruction
Political Revolution
Radical Party Formation
Mass Uprisings
Coalitions
Vision
Political Eduction
Civil
Collective Action
Consciusness
Society

Class

class is not an economic condition or attached to an occupation, but is instead a social relation established through the private property system.

Dispossessed Class
Ruling Class
  • all those who must labor in order to survive, which may manifest in self-employed, salary, wage, contract, reserve, unpaid, informal, enslaved, acapital, or deprived labor conditions
  • those who do not need to work, because they use the social relations based on the private property system to continually expropriate collectively produced profit from social, political, or economic systems of accumulation

Sector

  • Private (a.k.a. capital)
  • Non-Profit (a.k.a. philanthropy)
  • Public (a.k.a. governmental)
  • Marginalized

Class

Ruling Class or Dispossessed Class

Individual or Collective Experiences

  • Base on individual intersectionalities in relation to the collective society where the individual lives

Occupation/ Specialization/ Situation

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)
  • Managers
  • Professionals
  • Technicians and Support Professionals
  • Clerical Support Workers
  • Service and Sales Workers
  • Skilled Agricultural, Foresty, Fishing Workers
  • Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers
  • Elementary Occupations
  • Armed Forces Occupations
  • Unpaid Labor
  • Dispossessed

Industry

International Standard Industrial Classifications (ISIC)
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • Mining and quarrying
  • Manufacturing
  • Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
  • Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
  • Construction
  • Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
  • Transportation and storage
  • Accommodation and food service activities
  • Information and communication
  • Financial and insurance activities
  • Real estate activities
  • Professional, scientific and technical activities
  • Administrative and support service activities
  • Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
  • Education
  • Human health and social work activities
  • Arts, entertainment and recreation
  • Other service activities
  • Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use
  • Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
  • Surplus (floating, latent, stagnant)
  • Deprived

Conditions of Labor

  • Self-Employed
  • Salary
  • Wage (full-time)
  • Wage (part-time)
  • Freelance
  • Contract
  • Unpaid
  • Informal
  • Enslaved
  • Acapital
  • Dispossessed