ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapter of this book. The book examines the meaning of the front in neoliberal societies today, argues that it is a radically democratic politics of possibility and introduces practical examples from historical and contemporary projects in educating democracy to illustrate how this politics works in practice. It draws critical case studies of possibility from different kinds of project-making, including educative work in creating counter-capitalist subjectivities, economies, autonomous communities and radically democratic social systems from within and venturing beyond neoliberal capitalist social systems. Educational pioneers on the democratic frontier', surveys a number of concrete projects for radical democratization in the global North during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapter concludes by illustrating how this concept can be used to draw strength from an exemplary form of frontier politics, abolition politics, and considers its wider significance for other projects of radical democracy.
