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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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The Importance of Hope in Dreaming for a Better World

Sally Kohn: I love the idea of a tension between Marxist versus anarchist strategies and revolutionary theories. The more we use individualism and cooperation, she says, the stronger they become. And then you also write hope is a muscle that we must use; some people train their memories. Why not get into the habit of routinely flexing our emotional and cognitive capacities for hope by imagining a better world tomorrow together? She ends with this wonderful quote from Uroguayan poet Eduardo Galliano: "No matter how far I walk towards utopia, it recedes in front of me"

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