Non-reformist reform, also referred to as abolitionist reform,[1] anti-capitalist reform,[2][3][4] revolutionary reform,[5][6] structural reform[7][8][9] and transformative reform,[10][11] is a reform that "is conceived, not in terms of what is possible within the framework of a given system and administration, but in view of what should be made possible in terms of human needs and demands". On the other hand, reformist reforms essentially maintain the status quo and do not threaten the existing structure.[12] These have been described as reforms that rationalize or "fine-tune the status quo" by implementing modifications "from the top down", but that fail to address root causes of the issue.[7] As described by philosopher André Gorz, who coined the term non-reformist reform, non-reformist reforms in a capitalist system are anti-capitalist reforms, or reforms that do not base their validity and their right to exist "on capitalist needs, criteria, and rationale", but rather on human ones.[2]
Non-reformist reforms have been identified as reforms that "challenge existing power relations and pave the way for more revolutionary changes in the larger society necessary for a more socially just and environmentally sustainable world",[13] those that create and recreate "the capacity to cumulatively transform the existing system"[14][9] and those that abolish and undermine the very foundations of the existing structure.[1][15] Scholars identify that for this to truly be possible, these reforms cannot "be taken for the poor or the racialized" under the assumption that "those deemed poor or racialized are not able to take action themselves". In other words, the marginalized cannot be "passive agents" in the process, but must be transformative subjects who "are active in reordering social relationships, diagnosing social inequalities, and mobilizing for a better way of socially organizing the world".[16]
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- ^ a b Gorz, André (1987). "Strategy for Labor". Theories of the Labor Movement. Wayne State University Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780814318164.
- ^ Schmitz, Volker (2018). Axel Honneth and the Critical Theory of Recognition. Springer International Publishing. p. 156. ISBN 9783319919805.
- ^ Apple, Michael; Bleazby, Jennifer (2018). "Michael Apple on praxis, rhetoric and educational research: In dialogue with Jennifer Bleazby". Theory and Philosophy in Education Research: Methodological Dialogues. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351176095.
- ^ MacEwan, Arthur (1999). Neo-liberalism Or Democracy? Economic Strategy, Markets, and Alternatives for the 21st Century. Pluto Press. p. 15. ISBN 9781856497251.
- ^ Petridis, Panos; Muraca, Barbara; Kallis, Giorgios (2015), Martinez-Alier, Joan; Muradian, Roldan (eds.), "Degrowth: between a scientific concept and a slogan for a social movement", Handbook of Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 176–200, doi:10.4337/9781783471416.00012, ISBN 978-1-78347-140-9, retrieved 2021-11-13
- ^ a b Mittelman, James H. (2017). Implausible Dream: The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education. Princeton University Press. pp. 51–52. ISBN 9780691165189.
- ^ Yanli, Feng (2012). "Spaces of capital, moments of struggle: A review of the eighth annual historical materialism conference". International Critical Thought. 2 (1): 113–124. doi:10.1080/21598282.2012.660084. S2CID 145737605 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
- ^ a b Saul, John S.; Bond, Patrick (2014). South Africa-- the Present as History: From Mrs Ples to Mandela & Marikana. James Currey. p. 197. ISBN 9781431410668.
- ^ Burbach, Roger; Fox, Michael; Fuentes, Federico (2013). "The pink tide and the challenge to US hegemony". Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism. Zed Books. ISBN 9781780324968.
- ^ Jeffries, Fiona; Ridgley, Jennifer (2020). "Building the sanctuary city from the ground up: abolitionist solidarity and transformative reform". Citizenship Studies. 24 (4): 548–567. doi:10.1080/13621025.2020.1755177. S2CID 219091894 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
- ^ Solórzano, Daniel G.; Yosso, Tara F. (2009). Maintaining Social Justice Hopes within Academic Realities: A Freirean approach to critical race/LatCrit pedagogy. Wiley. p. 80. ISBN 9781405151061.
- ^ Baer, Hans A. (2019). Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition: Driving to Extinction. Lexington Books. p. 166. ISBN 9781793604897.
- ^ Schram, Sanford (2000). After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy. NYU Press. p. 184. ISBN 9780814797549.
- ^ Dixon, Chris; Davis, Angela Y. (2014). Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements. University of California Press. p. 289. ISBN 9780520279018.
- ^ Mize, Ronald; Swords, Alicia (2010). Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA. University of Toronto Press. p. 238. ISBN 9781442604094.