Anarchists, academics, general interested political folks!:
I'm looking for writings on the importance of political imagination for political progress.

I feel like I often come across this kind of thinking in passing in radical literature (e.g. 'even just asking the question about what a world without prisons might look like itself makes it possible'), but I don't know that I know of an essay or book length defense of its importance. Ideas?

#politics #anarchism #leftism #ideology #theory

@pjw
Also Murray Bookchin talked about the importance of imagining a different politics.
"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking."
The Meaning of Confederalism, Green Perspectives, no. 20 (1990).