Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #theoriesofchange, aggregated by home.social.
Prominent quantifiable production models of political change:
Getting more people to vote
Getting more people to protest
But line-goes-up by itself won’t lead to transformative change, which requires growing and evolving communities and coalitions in ways that aren’t as easily counted.
Cooperating in coalition: An ongoing commonplace thread
#organizing #coalition #collaboration #dialogue #facilitation #solidarity #ChangeTheory #TheoriesOfChange
Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/12/donella-meadows/
Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/12/donella-meadows/
Serious, substantive disagreements that could be worked through to build stronger coalitions and further systemic change are ignored or weaponized.
#coalition #solidarity #ChangeTheory #TheoriesOfChange #ShapingChange
Pluralistic: All laws are local (05 Feb 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/contingency/
Pluralistic: All laws are local (05 Feb 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/contingency/
Pluralistic: You can't fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/
@teq I'm trying to draw a through line from prefigurative approaches to organising and Otter Sharmers Theory U.
Like, Prefigurative is about envisaging the furture you want to see and working to bring that alive in the now.
Similarly, Theory U is an explicit methodology for 'presencing' into the furure and working through a practice that brings that into action in the now.
Inutivley they are very much related in my mind, but now Im struggling to find much academic cross over of the two concepts.
Any ideas/references/insights?
The short essay I'm trying to write just has this huge chasm in the middle of it right now!
Let’s assume there is a set of #Myths and #TheoriesOfChange that we can agree ‘seem to drive current #fediverse movements’:
How do they differ from those ‘seemingly driving #bluesky, #nostr, … movements’?
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The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Change hypothesis:
‚a key reason complex programs are so difficult to evaluate is that the assumptions that inspire them are poorly articulated.‘
Ideas Lying Around: Milton Friedman was a monster, but he wasn't wrong about this