no. probably just a short-circuit. i'm writing from a tradition that argued that, to provide a roadmap for getting from here to there is tantamount to tyranny. it's a capitulation to the desire for experts to tell everyone what to do. it's anti-democratic.
my first encounter with it was with the frankfurt school theorists. alison jagger wrote about it in her book, feminist politics and human nature. my recent encounter with this tradition of political thought - one that expressed the idea directly anyway -- was with Moishe Postone's book, Time, Labor and Social Dominionation. Probably the biggest practical experience I have with this approach is in my work with feminists who've eschewed drawing out maps for how people ought the get from here to there, but have focused on building a good process for how people can do that, together, on the ground, as events are happening rather than pre-planning it and selling it in books. there were factions of feminists who didn't do that and, instead, wrote prescriptive books containing recipes for how women should live the feminist future right now. they are all resting in the dustbin of history. consciouness-raising, however, is still with us. the communes and utopian women's encampments, though, are dead.
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