Conclusion and Transition Let us lay claim to our birthright liberty, love, and delight. That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. How to move toward a participatory economy is a very different question than how does a well-established participatory economy work. Strategies for building a participatory economy are part of overall strategies for social change. As such, the transition to participatory economics includes how to mobilize people's energy for social change, how to raise consciousness and commitment, whether to pursue electoral, grassroots, or confrontational tactics, what interim institutions to establish, what programs to pursue in other dimensions of social life, and how to overcome various obstacles as they arise.
Answers obviously vary depending on the country, obstacles encountered, etc.
Opponents continually use new methods to block change. Not even the most thoroughly prepared movement can foresee all the even tualities of struggle. Moreover, efforts to change economic struc tures do not evolve independently of influences from a society's political, kinship, and cultural spheres. Even the best prepared movement for economic change will fail if it underestimates or misunderstands the impact of political, cultural, and gender forces. It follows, therefore, that economic activists must be flexible and promote the agendas of activists struggling to change other spheres of social life in compatible directions.