Grace Lee Boggs was long a fellow traveller with James in the factions and divisions of sectarian Marxism, a student and friend of Third World revolutionaries.
She and James Boggs thought their way into a âpolitics of personal developmentâ that rejected partisan orthodoxies in favour of a more iterative âdialectical humanismâ, in which political visions and the peo- ple who hold them evolve together through struggle.
From the systems thinker [[Margaret Wheatley]] came Boggsâs frequent affirmation of âcritical connectionsâ over âcritical massâ â a conviction that the germ of seismic change lies in the thick relationality of how people choose to self-organise day to day. She drifted from Leninism, but the imperative of self-governance only deepened.
Later in life, Boggsâs attention turned from achieving state communism to [[commoning]], the work of people continually discovering what they are seeking to achieve by stewarding shared projects and resources.
She became a mentor to veterans of the 2011 [[Occupy Wall Street]] and its âleaderlessâ travails.