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"Living the Great Refusal" - strategies for living without capitalism instead of existing within it

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Friday May 02, 2014 12:17

by Deborah - The Vegan Information Project

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A consensus-based workshop to explore the theory, ethics, and practicalities of resistance to an oppressive system.

The Great Refusal is a concept associated with the political theorist Herbert Marcuse who was an influential member of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. This talk and workshop will look at Marcuse's position and apply it to 21st century capitalist oppression.

1. A short introductory talk on political theorist Herbert Marcuse's concepts of the "great refusal" and the "liberated imagination," and how they are not only relevant but essential to our understanding of living as vegan anarchists in a speciesist capitalist world. Q&A to follow.

2. Discussion and workshop on Marcuse's theory and its relevance to our own lives and struggles as activists, with reference to the following issues:

"False needs" and consumer culture - identifying and combating this most insidious form of capitalist tyranny.
The capitalist invasion - of our space, communities, bodies and minds: how it defines us and how to redefine ourselves.
"Ivory tower revolutionaries" vs community building? - how to reject hypocrisy while connecting with others living under the system.
Marcuse's "radical consciousness" - how to make this aspiration a reality, and make freedom in a world of unfreedom.
Practical strategies/ideas for creative resistance and how to implement them.
Personal stories of living outside the system and fighting the system, sharing experience and real life techniques.

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Comments (50 of 50)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	The best article I've found about intersectionalists	vg	Wed Apr 30, 2014 21:17
2	Better not be another intersectionalist talk	fred	Sat May 03, 2014 07:33
3	understand befor you critisize .	angelcake	Sun May 04, 2014 14:36
4	threatened by thinking outside of the box????	Viva La Vegan	Sun May 04, 2014 14:48
5	Important Clarification - Immediate	Fred Johnston	Sun May 04, 2014 14:57
6	@The Real fred	fred fan	Sun May 04, 2014 22:38
7	Beware of splittists	Blaise	Mon May 05, 2014 08:39
8	are anarcha-feminists being 'divisive ' ???	angelcake	Mon May 05, 2014 10:18
9	Don't Blame Intersectionality	Freddie	Mon May 05, 2014 17:47
10	so it begins	fred	Mon May 05, 2014 18:01
11	stop smearing veganism. Vegans are not intersectionalists	vegan	Mon May 05, 2014 18:34
12	Talking passed one another	Roger Yates	Mon May 05, 2014 22:28
13	ok in theory. In practice it is a divisive disaster, as the previous links show	vegan	Tue May 06, 2014 12:00
14	Roger	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 12:04
15	dialogue not insults , pleas comrades !	angelcake	Tue May 06, 2014 12:36
16	Devil Cake	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 12:52
17	@fred fan	angelcake	Tue May 06, 2014 12:53
18	Devil Cake	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 13:01
19	no need for intersectionalist individualism	fred	Tue May 06, 2014 14:13
20	outraged	viva la vegan	Tue May 06, 2014 15:10
21	viva la legan	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 15:28
22	I object to the false link being made between this transectionalism group and veganism	vegan	Tue May 06, 2014 17:10
23	@vegan	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 17:29
24	response...	fred	Tue May 06, 2014 17:38
25	Angry and threatening	Roger Yates	Tue May 06, 2014 18:11
26	@Roger	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 18:44
27	London Catholic Worke	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 21:22
28	Bourne Again	Roger Yates	Tue May 06, 2014 21:38
29	@Roger	fred fan	Tue May 06, 2014 22:31
30	No empathy?	Roger Yates	Tue May 06, 2014 23:17
31	Nothing to fear	Roger Yates	Wed May 07, 2014 00:55
32	Intersectional Theory and Intersectional Practice	Roger Yates	Wed May 07, 2014 01:03
33	@Roger	fred fan	Wed May 07, 2014 01:51
34	Julian Assange	fred fan	Wed May 07, 2014 02:16
35	arrogant asumptions	angelcake	Wed May 07, 2014 07:50
36	Mr. Angry	Roger Yates	Wed May 07, 2014 09:42
37	creativ resistanse , not internet hysteria !	angelcake	Wed May 07, 2014 09:45
38	Devil Cake	fred fan	Wed May 07, 2014 11:48
39	Come On Fred's Friend	Roger Yates	Wed May 07, 2014 13:28
40	not the greatest comparison ever...	vegan	Wed May 07, 2014 13:47
41	Roger	fred fan	Wed May 07, 2014 13:49
42	@ fred fan	angelcake	Wed May 07, 2014 14:02
43	some questions..	fred	Wed May 07, 2014 14:12
44	Devil Cake	fred fan	Wed May 07, 2014 14:21
45	Thanks Vegan	Roger Yates	Wed May 07, 2014 14:59
46	The Holocaust Analogy	Roger Yates	Wed May 07, 2014 15:14
47	some answers ...	angelcake	Wed May 07, 2014 15:34
48	@ vegan	angelcake	Wed May 07, 2014 15:35
49	@roger	vegan	Wed May 07, 2014 15:50
50	no thanks	vegan	Wed May 07, 2014 16:03

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