Liberatory Strategy Toolkit Jeopardy

Toolkit Changes

100

Name someone who is quoted in the Strategy Toolkit

• Amilcar Cabral
• Marta Harnecker
• Franz Fanon
• Richard Rumelt

200

Which tool was significantly shortened in this version of the toolkit?

• Assessment of the Current Conjuncture

300

Name the tools that were stand-alone tools in the old version of the Strategy Toolkit, and that have now been merged into other tools

• Hypothesis
• Scenario planning

400

Name one reason why Structural Vision that Makes Liberation Possible is the new name for the tool originally known as Vision of the Economic Base

• Many people don’t have a strong understanding of ‘economic base’
• Explaining that this tool is supposed to be about articulating ‘what makes liberation possible’ was helpful for building people’s understanding of how to use it

500

Why does the Liberatory Strategy tool now include “Phases of struggle”?

• Because cadres filling out the previous toolkit struggled with how articulating a hypothesis about liberatory on its own could feel too abstract
• The authors of the original version were worried that people filling out the toolkit might be too inclined to see strategy as temporary, but this wasn’t the case

Toolkit Tools

100

Which tool asks you to articulate what damage and harm will a liberated society inherit and need to repair?

Structural Vision that Makes Liberation Possible

200

Name the three sections of the toolkit

Assessing, Strategizing, and Implementing

300

Does the situational objective need to be something that the movement currently has the capacities to accomplish?

• no

400

Which two tools ask you to assess the class structure of society?

• Assessment of the Dominant System
• Assessment of the Current Conjuncture

500

Name the three types of hypotheses you articulate in the “Implementing” tool

• movement hypothesis 
• organizational hypothesis
• tactical hypothesis

Glossary

100

Who first developed the term ‘historic bloc’

• Antonio Gramsci

200

What’s the difference between a ‘strategic tendency’ and a ‘strategic leaning’

• a ‘strategic leaning’ is an incomplete strategic orientation that is used as a stand-in for a more comprehensive strategy.
• a ‘strategic tendency’ is a group of strategic orientations that are largely aligned on liberatory strategy. A ‘strategic tendency’ can include individuals and organizations that are not affiliated with one another, that are advancing slightly different immediate objectives, and that are more or less conscious of the strategic orientation they hold.

300

What’s the difference between ‘hegemonic bloc’ and ‘historic bloc’

• A ‘hegemonic bloc’ is a loose coalition of class and social sectors that support and engage in that society’s hegemony. The hegemonic bloc is led by the political forces leading all of society.
• A “historic bloc” is a term developed by Antonio Gramsci to describe the kind of multi-class, multi-sectoral alliance that would be necessary to win lasting, fundamental social transformation.

400

What’s the difference between ‘social sectors’ and ‘political forces’?

• Social sectors are a group of people linked together by a common characteristic (race, gender, geography, etc). They may share common interests but they’re not always ideologically or politically homogenous
• Political forces are groups who act to advance political objectives. Forces are usually rooted in a class or social sector, but they don’t always represent all members of that class or social sector

500

What’s the difference between the ‘mode of production’ and the ‘means of production’

• Capitalism, socialism, feudalism are all examples of different modes of production. The mode of production describes the whole of the productive forces and relations of production of a given time period.
• The tools or instruments (buildings, machines) and the raw materials used to create something are the means of production