Progressivism Or Radicalism? Should We Be Fixing The System Or Changing The System?

This salon explores the often overlooked distinction between progressivism--which uses ameliorative, often charitable means to create incremental and linear social change, and radicalism, which advocates systemic realignment and more substantive interventions in the economic and political spheres. In a post-Occupy, post-Arab Spring era, are we witnessing a massive rejection of political "radicalism" in favor of a progressivism rooted in civil rights discourses, efforts to make existing political and economic systems more fair, paired with an optimism about technology and new organizational platforms that introduce "innovation" to the world? What are the limitations of this positivist worldview? Come explore these and other questions in the Progressivism or Radicalism salon.

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Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for ‘Other Worlds’ - J.K. Gibson-Graham

A follow up discussion led to questions about formalized laws and unambiguous rules. I suggested that the best people to write laws to achieve a desired purpose without interpretational problems are board game designers. Here is an example, for anyone who wanted a followup to that discussion thread. The game is called "Rolling Stock", it's about stock trading in companies and corporations that own companies. Here are the verbose rules, meant for new players to read: http://rabenste.in/rollingstock/learning_the_game.pdf And here are the concise authoritative legalese-like rules, which are a lot less ambiguous than most society-defining laws that our governments write: http://rabenste.in/rollingstock/rules.pdf There are also good examples in the realm of "war games", but I don't have links to those as they exist mostly in printed form.