If movements reject hierarchical power, what do they build in its place?

In Episode 3 of A Podcast for Radicals, we explore prefigurative politics—the principle that we create the world we want through how we organize today. The future society isn't something we build after winning; it's something we practice now.

We examine how worker cooperatives, community land trusts, consensus decision-making, and mutual aid networks embody liberation in the present.

We look at real-world movements putting this into practice: Cooperation Jackson building economic democracy in Mississippi, and Argentina's recuperated workplaces, where workers have run factories without bosses for over twenty years.

We also confront what happens when these alternatives face attack—and how radical language gets co-opted by forces working against liberation.

In this episode:

→ Prefigurative politics: what it means and why it matters

→ How specific practices embody the vision of liberation

→ Cooperation Jackson's model of interlocking cooperatives

→ Argentina's worker cooperatives and current attacks

→ The difference between genuine anarchism and "anarcho-capitalism"

→ What repression teaches us about building alternatives

This episode is part of the "Means and Ends in Radical Action" series from A Guide for Radicals.

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