PowerU 52: A Follow-up on Refusing Powerlessness
Navigating blindspots for yourself and others
When smart people I respect misread Václav Havel's "Power of the Powerless" as anti-union, I realized we were all demonstrating the exact problem his essay warns against.
In PowerU 52, I break down the blind spots in my not anticipating the critique and what those who misread Havel missed —and why understanding blind spots matter when you're trying to build coalitions, distinguish allies from extractors, or simply recognize when you're being handed a lie dressed up in solidarity rhetoric.
Featuring: a Czech greengrocer, a Canadian Prime Minister's recent speech, one of the most courageous democratic socialists of the 20th century and why power literacy in the 21st century matters in practice.
#poweru #poweru | Andrea Reimer
#PowerU 52! When smart people I respect misread Václav Havel’s “Power of the Powerless” as anti-union, I realized we were all demonstrating the exact problem his essay warns against. In #PowerU 52, I break down the blind spots in my not anticipating the critique and what those who misread Havel missed —and why understanding blind spots matter when you’re trying to build coalitions, distinguish allies from extractors, or simply recognize when you’re being handed a lie dressed up in solidarity rhetoric. Featuring: a Czech greengrocer, a Canadian Prime Minister’s recent speech, one of the most courageous democratic socialists of the 20th century and why power literacy in the 21st century matters in practice.
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