The term prefigurative politics is widespread within various activist movements, and it describes modes of organization and tactics undertaken that accurately reflect the future society being sought by the group. The I.W.W. and other anarchist activists refer to this as "building a new world in the shell of the old." If a group is aiming to eliminate class distinctions, prefigurative politics demands that there be no class distinctions within that group. The same principle applies to hierarchy: if a group is fighting to abolish some or all forms of hierarchy in larger society, prefigurative politics demands they do the same within their group structure.

The following is a series of videos from the Building New Social Relations panel at Left Forum featuring:

- Andrew Cornell, American Studies, New York Univeristy
- Chris Dixon, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Deborah Gould, Sociology, University of Pittsburth
- Harjit Singh Gill, Institute for Anarchist Studies

You can watch them here or check the out the playlist.