I really connected with this rather lengthy article which as of this time I've only read about two-thirds of it. It offers so much food for thought for activists and for all those who are sensing the downward spiral of today's disturbing neoliberal world order. This piece might also be titled "Neoliberalism...meet neo-revolutionary thought!"
Activists seem to be in a transition period in which they find the thinking of the old left no longer meets today's need. This essay is a plea for, and a contribution to, a new revolutionary mode of thinking.
In contrast to the old left, narrowly concerned with seizing the constituted power of the state, the emerging anti-capitalist politics is not necessarily opposed to the idea of taking power, but finds it much more worthwhile to think in terms of building power and cultivating the social creativity, collective imagination and democratic aspirations of society as such. It recognizes that the left cannot simply “take” power without first building it—democratically—from below.