After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

You are encouraged to read the materials prior to the session but this is not a requisite to join. The more important thing is turning up and join the conversation. Prior to each session you will receive an email with a short list of key points from the reading to allow everyone to engage with discussions.

In this session we will discuss following chapters:

-POLITICAL ORPHANS
-THE 99%: THE SYMBOL AND THE AGENT
-LIFE OF THE OPPOSITIONAL GROUP

If cost of the book is a barrier for you, please get in touch with us at bookclub@animalrebellion.org

About the book:

Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy. Hopeful about the potential of today’s burgeoning movements, long-time grassroots organiser Jonathan Smucker nonetheless pulls no punches when confronting their internal dysfunction.

Drawing from personal experience, he provides deep theoretical insight into the all-too-familiar radical tendency toward self-defeating insularity and paralysing purism. At the same time, he offers tools to bridge the divide between anti-authoritarian values and hegemonic strategies, tools that might just help today’s movements to navigate their obstacles—and change the world.

This is the first of three sessions about this book.