Designing the Revolution
Roger Hallam
It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. The U.N says there is no ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C (October 2022). Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell.
Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.
Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society.
At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk. The first 13 podcasts episodes are recorded from prison.
We're talking about real change here, no more blah blah blah.
For Roger's latest updates and to support his work, sign up to his email list at 👉rogerhallam.com/#/portal/signup
Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.
Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society.
At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk. The first 13 podcasts episodes are recorded from prison.
We're talking about real change here, no more blah blah blah.
For Roger's latest updates and to support his work, sign up to his email list at 👉rogerhallam.com/#/portal/signup
Episodes
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Jul 26, 2023 • 57min
Core Themes of Revolution
So what does "the literature" tell us about revolutions. We review some of the core themes on how it all works.
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Jul 2, 2023 • 24min
The Sociology of the Revolution
So what does "the literature" tell us about revolutions. We review some of the core themes on how it all works.
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Jun 16, 2023 • 31min
The Conservative Dilemma
While we have been told revolutions are impossible, in fact they happen on a regular basis because conservatives who run established regimes find themselves damned if they do and damned if they don't. This episode is here to cheer you up before we embark on designing the revolution proper.
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Jun 13, 2023 • 28min
Neoliberals: Famine and Collapse
All the supposedly sacred policies of the neoliberal project: free trade, specialisation, just in time - may (or may not) lead to greater aggregate prosperity in reformist times. But in revolutionary times they make the extremity of the coming rupture all the deeper. In this third and final video talk for his "designing the revolution" series of podcasts, Roger again shows how the western liberal and administrative classes are stuck in a paradigm which is catastrophically disconnected from the realities of our present situation.
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Jun 8, 2023 • 48min
Reformers and the Most Important Graph in the World
Reformists, like Justin Rowlatt, trying harder, just makes the situation worse. In the second of three consecutive podcasts on the why gradualism and staying in the rules will destroy liberal civilisation, Roger turns his attention to the media. He provides overwhelming evidence, summarised in the most important graph in the world, that staying in the mindset of mainstream achieves nothing at best, and at worst creates an even greater rupture when it comes. Effectiveness in 2023 means confronting the system, risking losing one's 'career' and arrest/prison. Gary Lineker's refusal to submit to the BBC, is yet another classic case study on what needs to happen.
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Jun 5, 2023 • 1h 14min
Hobbit Lawyers Facing Mordor
In Roger Hallam's recent trial for conspiracy to cause criminal damage, in which he was again found not guilty, the judge summarised the evidence for the jury but omitted mentioning Roger's key defence - that the prospect of human extinction due to carbon emissions, constitutes an infinite crime and therefore must justify any finite harm intending to stop this obscenity. Did he forget to put it in - or could he not hear it?
In this podcast Roger shows how "doing good" in the system in the present context of total emergency results in even greater suffering and injustice. Only when we exit the system and engage in a revolutionary confrontation with it, can we save our civilisation and also the rule of law itself. The present situation is "the exception". We face Mordor.
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May 29, 2023 • 49min
International Coordination - The A22 Network
This podcast is not all dreamed up and theoretical - the organisational model it lays out has produced the most powerful campaigns on climate civil resistance in the western world at the present time - the A22 network projects (A22 stands for April 2022 when the network was formed).
These two chapters shows how these campaigns are systematically created and then combined to produce a high level of international cooperation and coordination. A22 is the stepping stone to the revolutionary formations of the coming years.
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May 20, 2023 • 36min
Global Civil Resistance - The A22 Network
This podcast is not all dreamed up and theoretical - the organisational model it lays out has produced the most powerful campaigns on climate civil resistance in the western world at the present time - the A22 network projects (A22 stands for April 2022 when the network was formed).
These two chapters shows how these campaigns are systematically created and then combined to produce a high level of international cooperation and coordination. A22 is the stepping stone to the revolutionary formations of the coming years.
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May 16, 2023 • 32min
The Whirlwind
We take an overview of our organisational model in relation to the wider project of the upcoming revolutionary period and why whatever happens being organised gives the best chances of progressive outcomes.
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Apr 29, 2023 • 37min
The Dynamo
The essence of any viable pro social revolutionary strategy is the creation of positive feedback loops over the course of iterations of struggle. In other words you do stuff and design it in such a way to maximise the chances that this "doing" leads to people doing more stuff in the next round of activities. It's about lighting the fire - but doing it in a organised and controlled way.
This chapter gives you some of the most important micro elements in such designs. You wont read about this in the media but believe me this is the most important knowledge you have to learn to focus on.
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