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Friends,

Not only is a new world possible, but it’s happening, now. Can you feel it? The way it’s being built is by people meeting with their neighbors; talking about structures and systems; taking action in everyday life, as well as in the political realm; supporting each other through love; imagining beyond limits we thought were fixed; abolishing abusive institutions and punitive processes; and more. These movements of mutual aid, ethical individualism, and anarchism have no “leaders,” but they do have articulate participants, and one of my favorites is SCOTT BRANSON.

Scott is an organizer, the co-host of the Final Straw Radio podcast, and the author of Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life, which is clear, easy to read, and fun. They’re also the co-editor of Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies.

They’re also someone I could talk with forever about every facet of the world that could be changed by imagination, compassion, and real freedom.

We talk:

• how anarchism can recreate the entirety of reality
• anarchism vs Marxism
• the right wing seizing leftist tactics
• conspiracy vs real analysis
• is anarchism moralism?
• whether or not you can have anarchism without spirituality

This is one of those episodes that goes across many landscapes, but always past the surface. I’m so happy to share it with you.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO?
On AEWCH 143, I talked with theorist, writer, and educator Srećko Horvat about changing our approach to the world entirely, right down to how we encounter time and space. And the “break up” theory Scott uses is in alignment with my own thoughts on the show, from AEWCH 132 – which was a repost of AEWCH 9.

WHAT BOOK SHOULD YOU READ?
A great book on creating and dissolving tactics, and how society forms around brilliant new imaginings and failed revolutions, is Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (I also talked about this book with Michael Hardt on AEWCH 120)

MORE ON SCOTT
Scott’s website, which has links to plenty of articles and appearances is here. Scott is also the translator of Guy Hocquenghem’s Gay Liberation after May ’68 as well as Lesage deLa Haye’s The Abolition of Prison.