How Family Trauma Perpetuates Authoritarian Societies
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'Crisis in democracy': Historian warns 2024 is a showdown between 2 'warring visions of society'
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Ella Baker’s work leading the Young Negroes’ Cooperative League (YNCL) from 1930-1933 is here used to further inform today’s anti-fascism. Overall, this article relates Baker’s work to the dissenting views of German Communist Party (KPD) co-founder Clara Zetkin, specifically her views on fascism and the systemic alternative she referred to as a “Soviet Congress for a Soviet Germany.” This was a federation of autonomous councils formed in neighborhoods and workplaces for mutual aid, self-defense, and as dual power to succeed in revolution through general strikes in the event of a Nazi coup.
The late sociologist Erik Olin Wright used the phrase “ruptural transformation” instead of revolution, inaccurately summarizing this as “Smash first, build second.” His immensely...