Kjersti Ericsson:

The polyphonous revolution

This is an English translation of Kjersti Ericsson's book Den flerstemmige revolusjonen, published for the web August 2000. The original Norwegian paperback was published by Forlaget Oktober in 1991.

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Contents

• Introduction
  • The future is shaped now
• The two models
• The white inheritance
  • Development of liquidation? | Economic development - a neutral concept? | The dream of pure Western socialism | The ugly blind spots
• The patriarchal inheritance
  • A women's perspective - from addition to a new orientation | The art of overlooking half of humanity | Exploitaion has a gender dimension | The work that disappeared | Class power and production point | Reproduction - inferior and subordinate? | The silent areas | Gender and class
• The split inheritance
  • The important dividers | From the "pure" to the versatile - or from the versatile to the versatile?
• The everyday perspective
  • Lack of food is lack of power | The everyday perspective | Everyday perspective and planning - two kinds of reality | Trees or power to the people? | Everyday perspective and knowledge | Knowledge with whom? | Everyday life perspective and technology | Everyday life perspective and the "micro plane" | Leading by making others great | Everyday life perspective and women's power | Compensation or a new pattern?
• The problematical questions
  • The state, problem solver and problem maker | Organizing the counter forces | "State socialism" or "market socialism"? | The germs of novelty | Workers fight ... | Local societies fight ... | Women fight ... | ... and people fight for human beings and environment | A "polycentric" plan?
• The revolution needs many voices
  • He who oppresses others, cannot himself be free | "... all the articulated experience it can get" | Is leadership needed? | "Transgressing solutions"
• Literature