arkmundi
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segue from previous thread at Team America WTF?
No, I'm not an anarchist, though like most I have those tendencies. Rather I'm a revolutionary, because some significant change from the old order is needed. Not for me, mind you. I'm too old to care that much. Primarily for environmental reasons, catastrophic climate change underway and as yet unabated, the anthropocene mass extinction event underway and accelerating, the prospect of an Eaarth so changed that life for most mammals, including human is no longer possible. Not for me, for the continuity of life on planet Eaarth with some possibility that humanity may have a chance of survial.
A revolution like the one communicated in Occupy Love. Though subsequent to the government infiltration and forcible shutdown of the occupy movement, I've grown darkly cynical about the prospect of such necessary and revolutionary change. It was an avowed and demonstrative non-violent movement on the par with the greatest of American social-change movements in the past. But the older order doesn't want change, but a continued concentration of wealth in the hands of the few that hold the reigns of power, and so saw the movement as a threat. At least we gave them a good scare!
So for all fellow revolutionaries, here are three great recent articles. Thanks to Dennis Trainor at Acronym TV.
The Sparks of Rebellion by true revolutionary Chris Hedges over at popularresistance.org. There he attempts to summarize the debates among some of the great radical thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries about the mechanisms of social change. These debates were not academic. They were frantic searches for the triggers of revolt, which remains his passionate hope in these now apocalyptic times.
How To Survive The State by Nicholas Mirzoeff at tidalmag.org. In the tradition of hope for the 99%, he argues for mutual aid <as> the only way, first to assist people in dire need, and second to create conditions for change.
Finally, any of the articles at truth-out.org that elaborate, as most of them do.
FYI, I consider going car-free and building & riding an ebike, a revolutionary act, a declaration of independence from oil and that extractive economy that is so primary for getting us into the mess we're in right now. Best!
