Prefigurative institutions, consensus decision-making, debates over lifestyle and organizing: none of these practices and questions are, in fact, new—although they've been highlighted of late, especially in the Occupy movement. Activist-scholar Andy Cornell discusses an organization in the 1970s and 80s called Movement for a New Society that foreshadowed contemporary anarchist politics. He points to the many lessons we can, and should, learn from it, including the limitations of being "the change you wish to see in the world."