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We are happy to announce the publication of the fifth issue of Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art!

Michael Brie and  Dieter Klein of the Institute for Critical Social Analysis at the  Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany, published a projective plan for social renewal in the 2011 journal of International Critical Thought which took up the concept of a “Solidarity Society”.  They listed several important goals towards a transformational society that realized the classless democracy envisioned by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.  Among these goals was ” the expansion of decentralized fields of activity: self-regulation and renewal from below (that) is the elixir of emancipatory transformation processes. Experiments in political change will only be successful if citizens are able ‘to set up not just one but several governing authorities at various levels’ instead of having to subordinate themselves to a central authority or the market mechanism.”  The coordinating means of realizing such a democratic consensus in its manifold levels of organization is not detailed in this article, not because of length, but because of a lack of the communicative means groups of interrelated individuals must participate in to realize such a democratic reorganization of society.  The Marxist Lucien Goldman addressed this oversight in 1952 in his critique and proposed augmentation of the field of Group Dynamics—a promising interpersonal methodology begun by Kurt Lewin and others in the 1930s.

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Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI) is sponsoring two panels at the upcoming Left Forum conference (https://leftforum.org) in New York City. The panels focus on perspectives for confronting Trumpism and, more broadly, for confronting the resurgence of authoritarianism—both the right-wing and “left-wing” (pro-Stalinist) varieties.