Liberating community: This blog has been superseded

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This blog reflects on current events in politics and society from the point of view of community. The basic point of view is a search for ways of building community that is collaborative and mutualist, rather than based on deference to tradition or expertise. It is connected to a set of more general essays which develop the conceptual background.

The political perspective is liberal, which means that we believe in an expansion and diversification of community rather than a return to established traditions and relations. But liberals have tended to be suspicious of community, seeing it as the source of traditional oppressions. In this way we have lost touch with essential human aspirations, which explains a great deal of why we have lost political momentum.

Our problem, then, is to define community in a way that is liberating rather than constraining and traditional -- a framework of relationships that engenders trust and caring but embraces wide diversity of peoples. In these comments I will be developing the concept of collaborative community, which I have written about with Paul Adler, and which seems to me to provide such a framework.

Liberating community

Friday, November 27, 2015

This blog has been superseded

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