everyday life is that it enabled (and enables) one to think dialectically. Everyday life may well be the site of alienation, but it is also the site of its undoing, the terrain for social change.
[…]Through flexibility, a clear sense of the stakes of the battle and the enemy they share, and above all through repeated gestures of cooperation, they make a common front. This is a front that avoids the fixity of class or party but that is nevertheless organized. It takes the overly abstract call to “save the climate”and brings it down to earth—in fact, and quite pragmatically, to particular plots of earth. This is the commune form for our own time.
[…]contemporary mode is trans-regional— that is, occurring in many federated regions (but not necessarily occurring everywhere, as would an abstraction).
[…]the contemporary commune mode manifests itself in several regions at once or in close sequencing: sites and local skirmishes based on the situations, histories, and specific needs of the people and other life-forms inhabiting each one thus find themselves “federated”— linked together by the coordinating actions and the relations between groups and individuals established within Soulèvements.
The Commune Form, Kristin Ross
