There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
We need to hold in our hearts the possibility of a better world, not because we have candy-coated the problems or lied about what we can accomplish, but because we know that we do often win and make a difference, and that all the good things we have in the world are the results of those who have had the… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share
Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from anarchists about the definition of the state they are opposed to. Most are opposed to coercive forms of state power. Questions about large scale systems of organization and how they will be funded - those are questions it's… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share
We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones,… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care,… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important. — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society. Marx gets… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Yes it is true that pro-capitalist forces have a lot of power. But so did slave-holding racists. We give ourselves hope when we conceptualize… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
