It’s not just you. Any time they touch on politics/economics they just regurgitate hegemonic propaganda.

You probably just want to get on the email lists of local organisations (activist groups, minor political parties, union councils, etc.).

They will often cross-promote each other so you’ll be made aware of other organisations through them.

I was thinking that would come under ‘prefiguration of new institutions’ (although actually it permeates all aspects), but you are right to name it explicitly, comrade 🖤

That’s a matter of some debate… 😆

For my part, I’d say direct action and prefiguration of new institutions are good places to start. We of course need to educate people in various ways - in addition to direct action and prefiguration, which are educational in their own right. I also think we need to engage with art and culture to build consciousness and expand popular imagination of what’s possible.

We need to understand and dismantle the systems that produce them.

I feel compelled to point the author is hardly unbiased.

No author is unbiased. If you think they’re unbiased it’s just their biases are the same as yours or those of the status quo (whatever you might consider that to be).

I just don’t have it in me to accept anything at face value because someone says so.

Thankfully, you don’t have to! You have a brain in your head, so you can read the arguments being made, think about them, and critically evaluate them. You can try to come up with counter-arguments, or failing that, look around for counter-arguments other people have made and critically evaluate those too.

The commenter above gave you sources for the quotes, so you can find copies of them and read the complete argument being made in those works.