About

The goal of this website is to provide political education that combines concrete organizing experience with theory.

This is a collection of lessons from actual struggle and it is shared in the hopes that people will continue to treat politics as a science.

Which is to say, the hope that people continue to treat politics as a series of experiments to be learned from and not as formulas or dogmas to be memorized.

Hopefully, this site helps you engage in your experiments.

At the moment, this website will primarily by my own perspectives distilling lessons from the experience in Chicago's political ecosystem, dating back to 2006.

But the hope is that other organizers will be won over to contribute their own experience-based lessons and perspectives.

— Ken Barrios

Chicago, July 2023