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One important aspect of prefigurative politics is that of developing people's operative values in the right sorts of ways, so as to better lead organisations to bring about the forms of future society that they want.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
In contrast, latency is the possible content of the future that is around us. Again, Bloch uses a typically Marxist line of thinking here: the proletariat are a future revolutionary class, latent in the present and finding expression in the class struggle. These latencies of the present meet the objective real possible conditions of history and it is this that forms the dialectical engine that drives history itself forward.
A Primer on Utopian Philosophy
Jonathan Greenaway
Oppressive power is preserved in the smoke and fog, and sometimes it is smuggled in the unexamined shadows of the language of the oppressed themselves.
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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