Progressive Strategy Studies Project Chomsky on Progressive Strategy

Glancing at the list of individuals and organizations that we included in our first report, "Finding Strategy: A Survey of Contemporary Contributions to Progressive Strategy ( comw.org/pssp/fulltext/0611psspreport1.pdf )”, he referred to more "extensive and far-reaching" thinking on progressive strategy than reported in our report. [...] Throughout the interview, he mainly referred to the work of Gar Alperovitz, Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel, and Joel Rogers (the latter is included in our report), on how to democratize the economy and the workplace through worker self-management, cooperatives, etc. [...] He started out by emphasizing that the US is "a one-party state with two wings, Democrat and Republican," and claimed that both were "way to the right of the majority of Americans" on many crucial issues. [...] In the US this is even more so the case than in other countries because of the much more brutal suppression of labor. [...] They offer considerable promise and opportunity for those willing to keep working hard at "building the cells of a future society." Wolfgang Brauner is the Principal Researcher of the Progressive Strategy Studies Project at the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, MA.