Designing the Revolution

So what does "the literature" tell us about revolutions. We review some of the core themes on how it all works. Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

So what does "the literature" tell us about revolutions. We review some of the core themes on how it all works. Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

While we have been told revolutions are impossible, in fact they happen on a regular basis because conservatives who run established regimes find themselves damned if they do and damned if they don't. This episode is here to cheer you up before we embark on designing the revolution proper. Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

All the supposedly sacred policies of the neoliberal project: free trade, specialisation, just in time - may (or may not) lead to greater aggregate prosperity in reformist times. But in revolutionary times they make the extremity of the coming rupture all the deeper. In this third and final video talk for his "designing the revolution" series of podcasts, Roger again shows how the western liberal...

Reformists, like Justin Rowlatt, trying harder, just makes the situation worse. In the second of three consecutive podcasts on the why gradualism and staying in the rules will destroy liberal civilisation, Roger turns his attention to the media. He provides overwhelming evidence, summarised in the most important graph in the world, that staying in the mindset of mainstream achieves nothing at best...

In Roger Hallam's recent trial for conspiracy to cause criminal damage, in which he was again found not guilty, the judge summarised the evidence for the jury but omitted mentioning Roger's key defence - that the prospect of human extinction due to carbon emissions, constitutes an infinite crime and therefore must justify any finite harm intending to stop this obscenity. Did he forget to put it in...

This podcast is not all dreamed up and theoretical - the organisational model it lays out has produced the most powerful campaigns on climate civil resistance in the western world at the present time - the A22 network projects (A22 stands for April 2022 when the network was formed). These two chapters shows how these campaigns are systematically created and then combined to produce a high level of...

This podcast is not all dreamed up and theoretical - the organisational model it lays out has produced the most powerful campaigns on climate civil resistance in the western world at the present time - the A22 network projects (A22 stands for April 2022 when the network was formed). These two chapters shows how these campaigns are systematically created and then combined to produce a high level of...

We take an overview of our organisational model in relation to the wider project of the upcoming revolutionary period and why whatever happens being organised gives the best chances of progressive outcomes. Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

The essence of any viable pro social revolutionary strategy is the creation of positive feedback loops over the course of iterations of struggle. In other words you do stuff and design it in such a way to maximise the chances that this "doing" leads to people doing more stuff in the next round of activities. It's about lighting the fire - but doing it in a organised and controlled way. This chapte...

Anyone can come up with a cool plan but the real question is who is going to organise it - how are the decisions made - how do such people remain in service. These are the key questions of revolutionary transformation. The good news is that praxis based organising is moving beyond the sterile debate between "hierarchy" and "horizontalism". Without a firm centre there can be no sustainable healthy...

The media is not what it seems. The short form mainstream media interview is not a place to deliberate but a battle of wits. You don't answer questions because they are designed to humiliate you and/or trap you into reformist logics. The media is a site of action - disruption: verbal and physical. Long form interviews provide more opportunities to calmly take the criticism and yourself to be human...

The media is not what it seems. The short form mainstream media interview is not a place to deliberate but a battle of wits. You don't answer questions because they are designed to humiliate you and/or trap you into reformist logics. The media is a site of action - disruption: verbal and physical. Long form interviews provide more opportunities to calmly take the criticism and yourself to be human...

Socialiability is nothing without confrontational action. People will not keep coming to meetings if there is nothing to do. Mobilisation and action then are two sides of the same coin - part of the same system. Action theory is the principles of design we need to use to bring sociability into what is called “civil disobedience” - the nonviolent confrontation with injustice - the social spaces whe...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 12 | Action Design How do you design social confrontation - focusing and fusing disruption with an openness to dialogue? This is critical to the whole project. Based upon the theoretical principles outlined in the previous two chapters I lay out the de...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 11 (Part 2 of 2) | Action Theory Socialiability is nothing without confrontational action. People will not keep coming to meetings if there is nothing to do. Mobilisation and action then are two sides of the same coin - part of the same system. Action...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 11 (Part 1 of 2) | Action Theory Socialiability is nothing without confrontational action. People will not keep coming to meetings if there is nothing to do. Mobilisation and action then are two sides of the same coin - part of the same system. Action...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 10 (Part 2 of 2) | Sociability Practice Introducing the theories of proximity and sociability into mobilisation designs has a massive impact on increasing the numbers of people coming into a civil resistance community and thus building the skills and k...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 10 (Part 1 of 2) | Sociability Practice Introducing the theories of proximity and sociability into mobilisation designs has a massive impact on increasing the numbers of people coming into a civil resistance community and thus building the skills and k...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 9 | Sociability Theory The key concept for the C21st century progressive revolution. Forget all the last century’s ism. We are looking at reclaiming the lifeworld of personal interaction and how we can operationise processes to take over the spaces of...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 8 | Proximity Okay so much for some theory, let’s look at doing stuff. Our first meeting design. The key site of causality is the group – not the individual nor society. This is why we start here. Get the social space design right and the revolution fo...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 7 | Attention and Nonlinearity More fundamentals. Nothing changes will first getting the attention of people. And that requires disruption and emotion. Forget “information” and “being nice”. Only then are you in the ballpark of getting somewhere – of t...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 6 | Complexity It is foundational. To act effective you have to understand how society works. It is not an engine it’s natural system. Its not mechanical. Lots of things influence each other at the same time. You therefore probe it to get a sense of wh...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 5 (Part 2 of 2) | So What's the Plan? No time to misery and self pity. The next thousand generation will not forgive for moping around. A revolutionary period in about to explode in Western democracies and potentially globally. We need prepare now by b...

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 5 (Part 1 of 2) | So What's the Plan? No time to misery and self pity. The next thousand generation will not forgive for moping around. A revolutionary period in about to explode in Western democracies and potentially globally. We need prepare now by b...