A Strategy For Labor: A Radical Proposal by Andre Gorz (1965)- The idea of the “non-reformist reform” or “structural reform” has helped me see a way to think about projects such that we could shape them as Afro-Socialist even though they are being formed in the middle of capitalist organizations and structures. Gorz wanted to create a middle step for socialism between (1) programs that don’t fundamentally challenge the main ideas of Cedric Robinson called “racial capitalism” and (2) full out armed revolution or waiting for capitalism to fall in on itself. Option (a) is essentially more of the same, a treadmill, and option (b) in the militarized state of the 60’s, let alone today, was not possible. So, Gorz had this idea of creating projects that contained the elements that if they were to be implemented at a grander scale would dramatically shift a society away from capitalism and towards socialism. Strategy for Labor poses all critiques of capitalism that are intended to make it a more socially beneficial society as essentially socialist, which offers us a path to imagine what it might mean to be a socialist in the current moment, although that expansive definition could capture people as socialist who do not want to be defined as such. However, A Strategy for Labor has the limits of European Socialism…

Before U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, was Betsy DeVos, she was Elisabeth Prince, older sister to Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, the private security (military) company…