One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
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… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from anarchists about… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
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
