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Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs

Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs

Doan, Michael

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PhilosophyPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1849356149
ISBN13: 9781849356145
Publisher: AK Press
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

A foremost contemporary theory of social change explained that shows us how the future must be built day by day.

Rehearsing the Future explores the work and legacy of James and Grace Lee Boggs, two of the most influential American radical thinkers of the twentieth century. Grace Lee Boggs earned a PhD in philosophy in the 1940s, though facing obstacles to an academic career as a young Chinese American woman, she left and became a political organizer in Detroit, where she met and married James Boggs, a Black autoworker and labor organizer from Alabama who had moved North during the Great Migration. Over the course of more than forty years of partnership and participation in labor, civil rights, Black Power, anticolonial, and feminist movements, the Boggses articulated a philosophy of long-term revolutionary strategy they called dialectical humanism. Rejecting state socialism and traditional Marxism, dialectical humanism instead attributes social change to the conscious, collective activity of people engaged in place-based organizing with a view to transforming everyday life, with hallmark projects such as community gardens, daycare networks, and mediation programs. Above all, revolution is not a fixed program but must evolve as ideas, movements, and institutions are changed through collective practice.

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