1. The Case for Grassroots Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
2. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
3. Creating an Ecological Society
   Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2017
   Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
4. Do You Socialists Have Any Plans?
   Why we need socialist architects
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Bruce Lerro claims that the only way 21st century socialism is going to get any traction or respect from the working class is if socialists collectively develop blueprints for socialism: five years, ten years, fifty years down the road.
5. The Economy of an Ecological Society Will Be at the Service of Humanity
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   What would a truly just, equal and ecologically sustainable future look like? Why would it require a change in our economic system, namely the end of capitalism? Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams answer these questions in Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation.
6. How to create an ecological society
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2018
   A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.
7. Imagine
   Living in a Socialist USA
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2014
   Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri di coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democracy. It features thirty-one essays by revolutionary thinkers and activists on various aspects of a new society and, crucially, on how to get from where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.
8. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
9. Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
10. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
11. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
    Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
    
12. People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
13. Querying Young Chomsky
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Chomsky offers observations on what a desirable society might look like from the perspective of the heritage of libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist views.
14. The Rain On Our Parade
    A Letter To My Dismal Allies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    O rancid sector of the far left, please stop your grousing! Compared to you, Eeyore sounds like a Teletubby. If I gave you a pony, you would not only be furious that not everyone has a pony, but you would pick on the pony for not being radical enough until it wept big, sad, hot pony tears. Because what we're talking about here is not an analysis, a strategy, or a cosmology, but an attitude, and one that is poisoning us. Not just me, but you, us, and our possibilities.
15. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
16. Socialism.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
17. Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
18. Total Self-Management
    Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem's book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    Vaneigem's book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.

Experts on Society We Want in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive