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By Cindy Milstein

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Consisting of 10 collaborative picture-essays that weave poetic phrases with complicated but daring pictures, this assortment goals to problem readers into taking into account neighborhood motion in a favorable gentle. Depicting what it might be wish to dwell, each day, in a global made out of lower than, the place coercion and hierarchy are mostly vestiges of the earlier, Paths towards Utopia indicates the various practices that prefigure the self-organization that might be general in an egalitarian society. This stirring publication finally mines what humans do of their day-by-day lives for the already-existent gemstones of a freer future—premised on anarchistic ethics like cooperation and direct democracy.

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It’s not fast enough for many, of course. But each time I’ve personally been just on the verge of giving up, metaphorically, on humanity or myself, an occupier or two—or several, or even my whole general assembly—surprises me with the giant steps they’ve made in their ethics, politics, and behaviors, thereby also reshaping this occupy microsociety of ours, and I in turn surprise myself at how I’ve changed. That first day that Josh took me to Occupy Wall Street, we kicked into anarchist self-organizing mode, perhaps falling back a little too comfortably on what we know how to do best: educate and agitate, with the aim of getting people to think and act for themselves.

By way of illustrating just how surprising this moment is—and how excruciating it feels to put any thoughts on it to paper—since I penned this prologue over two months ago, a student strike in Quebec and especially Montreal has grown into a maple spring of grand proportions. And this week, as it celebrated its hundred-day anniversary on May 22 and thirty days of nightly street demonstrations, this already-enormous movement has escalated into a widespread social strike, or maple summer—just to point to one of the many current twists and turns.

In this accelerated instance of traversing the battered byway toward utopia, it’s too hard to peer ahead at exactly where we’re going and hence it’s difficult to speculate on it in print. I trust, however, as does Erik, that you’ll catch glimpses of the breathtaking prefigurative heights of occupy and other people power movements within several of our picture-essays. For example, “Deciding for Ourselves” supplies a narrative of magical realism that flits across time and space, borrowing from some of the highs of low moments, such as the neighborhood assemblies and self-managed factories springing out of Argentina’s financial collapse in 2001, the Common Ground Health Clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and some of the deeply human interconnections and processes that have been facilitated by occupy.

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