Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism

By Cindy Milstein, Josh MacPhee and Erik Ruin

Consisting of 10 collaborative picture-essays that weave poetic words with intricate yet bold images, this collection aims to challenge readers into thinking of community action in a positive light. Depicting what it would be like to live, every day, in a world created from below, where coercion and hierarchy are largely vestiges of the past, Paths Toward Utopia suggests some of the practices that prefigure the self-organization that would be commonplace in an egalitarian society. This stirring book ultimately mines what people do in their daily lives for the already-existent gems of a freer future—premised on anarchistic ethics like cooperation and direct democracy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Release date: Sep 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781604867794

Cindy Milstein

Cindy Milstein is author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations and editor of the anthologies Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism, Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, and Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy. Long engaged in anarchistic organizing, contemporary social movements, and collective spaces, for the past couple years Cindy focused on doing support work for the J20 defendants, touring extensively with her latest edited anthology, Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, and co-organizing the 2019 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. Currently, Cindy co-organizes the Institute for Advanced Troublemaking, and is honored, when called on, to do death doula and grief care.