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5. Celebrating Rod Bush: Friend, Comrade, and Revolutionary Warrior.

Author

Katz-Fishman, Walda and Scott, Jerome

Subjects
POLITICAL science education, CAPITALISM, SOCIAL movements, SOCIAL development
Abstract

In the chapter, the authors celebrate the life and work of Rod Bush as a friend, a comrade, and a revolutionary warrior. They locate Bush's theory and practice of the interpenetration of Black struggle and class struggle within today's transformative movement to end global capitalism and world white supremacy. Bush lived and moved within many complex and contentious spaces from the street, to the academy and the sociological profession. His life's work embodied a powerful unity of revolutionary theory and political practice--his teaching and mentoring, his scholarship and writing, his political education and movement work in his community and in social movement spaces in the United States and the world. For Rod Bush, revolutionary theory and practice was wherever he lived and worked. He understood the need to connect theory and strategy to peoples' lived experience and daily struggles in the classroom and in the street. Through compelling pedagogy, Katz-Fishman and Scott argue, Rod Bush mentored a new generation of transformative thinkers and movement actors. He did the essential work of nurturing the intellectual side of the twentyfirst century revolutionary movement. In celebrating Rod Bush's life, the authors re-commit themselves to the revolutionary praxis his life embodied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Published
2019

7. A Bottom-up Southern Strategy for Power in the 21st Century - Freedom is through the South.

Author

Katz-Fishman, Walda, Scott, Jerome, and Gomes, Ralph

Subjects
SOCIAL movements, SOCIAL classes, CAPITALISM, POLITICAL parties, RACE relations
Abstract

The article argues that today's bottom-up movement needs its own southern strategy to challenge white supremacy at its core, with regards to the capitalist private property, and concerning male domination in the U.S. The ruling class in the U.S. has always controlled the citizens through a southern strategy rooted in superexploitation, white supremacy, male privilege, division, and brutal repression. The article raises several questions related to the use of southern strategy by Democrats and Republicans in the past and its implications for a bottom-up southern strategy. more...

Published
2005

8. Capitalist Crisis, Social Movements, and the US Social Forum: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit.

Author

Katz-Fishman, Walda, Brewer, Rose, and Scott, Jerome

Subjects
SOCIAL change, SOCIAL movements, SOCIAL psychology, CAPITALISM, SOCIOECONOMICS
Abstract

In 2010, two years into the deepest global crisis of capitalism the world has ever experienced, the question is how to move politically to secure the basic necessities of life for all humanity and to protect the earth. For the first time in US history the capitalist crisis is creating the objective conditions for social struggles to take a leap forward, to make real and concrete the connection between day-to-day social activity and the larger political struggle for socialism on the path to communism. In the U.S., social movements and revolutionaries are analyzing, envisioning, strategizing, and converging. An important process where this is happening is the US Social Forum, first organized in Atlanta in 2007 and in Detroit in 2010. We discuss our experiences organizing the USSF: 1. The strategic importance of holding the first USSF in the US South; 2. This historical moment - today's economic meltdown centered around the technological revolution and auto and related industries in Detroit and the Rust Belt, and the power of this context for the second USSF in 2010 as the crisis of capitalism, the social destruction it brings, and the resulting political struggle deepen and broaden in the U.S. and globally. We share ways for scholar and student activists to participate in building US social movements, and the edited volume, The US Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, telling the stories of organizing the first USSF, convergences and alliances, triumphs, challenges, and lessons learned for local-national-global movement building. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Published
2010