2026-05-09.1_militant research

militant research has three overlapping and interlocking moments: 1. finding out what there currently is, and everything that comes with it: past factors leading to the present, the movements and structures active in the present, specifically focusing on what tendencies of social organization are in process at the given moments in time as well as their interconnections, internal logics, contradictions and ambivalences. this moment is the one still most close to conventional research and sciences 2. finding out what there could be, that is, developing the ability to anticipate the trajectories of the different tendencies identified in moment 1, as well as developing the ability to collectively imagine new/different tendencies arising from the partisan and intentional employment towards liberatory ends of certain ambivalences present in the current tendencies of social organization 3. finding out, collectively constructing and employing the methods that could lead to the realization of specific desirable and liberatory tendencies identified and imagined in moment 2

as is common, the relationship between these three moments is not linear or teleological. nor can any one of them exist without the others. therefore, a constant and consistent back-and-forth through all of them is necessary to do ‘good’ militant research, meaning to find, collectively construct and walk the paths to liberation.

these three moments can be summarized as three short questions: 1. what is there? 2. what could there be? 3. what methods can lead to the answers to questions 1 & 2 becoming liberation?

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