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Economics for Emancipation

A Course of Economics for All

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MODULE 7

In this module, we will explore different strategies for socioeconomic change through historical case studies and recent community projects and campaigns.

We also highlight solidarity economy as a vision for an alternative economic system that would center social, economic, and environmental justice.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify at least three different revolutionary strategies for change
  • Explain, share examples, and reflect on just transition strategies
  • Apply this economic analysis and strategic thinking to current campaigns and projects

Materials

For Groups:

  • Facilitator Guide
  • Facilitator Slidedeck
  • Participant Workbook
  • Big Idea Project Workbook

For Individuals:

  • Interactive Workbook

VIDEO LESSONS:

Takeaways

  • There are three general strategies for social change 1) reforming or taming an oppressive system, 2) destroying or smashing an oppressive system, and 3) escaping the system by building alternative communities.
  • Solidarity Economy is an alternative to capitalism that features collective ownership, allocation based on needs, governance by those closest to the pain deciding the solution, and the sharing of the least desired work in society. 
  • The just transition framework provides a strategy to move from an extractive to a regenerative economy using three strategies: 1) stop the bad → build the new, 2) divest from their power → invest in our power, and 3) change the rules
  • Our campaigns and projects can and should strive for both the redistribution of resources and democratic governance.

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Readings

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Solidarity Beyond the Crisis: How to Truly Build Back Better.

Pérez, Francisco and Luis Feliz León. 2020, Dollars & Sense, November 2020

“A Long and Strong History with Southern Roots”

by Jessica Gordon Nembhard

A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition: From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring.

Movement Generation

Envisioning Real Utopias

Erik Olin Wright Ch 9-11, pp 218-265

"Why Socialism"

Einstein, Albert, Monthly Review

Videos

How We Live: Journey Towards A Just Transition

Video (7 min), (7/10/14), by Movement Generation and EDGE Funders Alliance.

"Real Utopias"

Erik Olin Wright

"Defying the Crisis - The Spanish Collective Mondragon"

2012

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  • Introduction to the Economy & the Working Day
  • How Capitalism Works
  • Redistribution vs. Recognition
  • Alternative Economic Systems
  • The Evolution of U.S. Economic Systems
  • Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • Building Alternatives: Solidarity Economy