Vin and Chang, The environment is ripe for a revolution. We the people should rise up without waiting for a leader. There's no Marx or Lenin or Che. Or Mao or a Ho Chi Min on the horizon. But we have plenty of Bertolt Brechts, Ken Saro-Wiwas , Lumumbas, Rosa Luxemburgs, Franz Fanons and all our poets, artists , writers and on and on. And women like Francesca Albanese, who in no uncertain terms explains how the world has gone from an "economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".
We have been asleep, we have been apathetic and let the old colonialists morph into neocolonialists. It has rolled on from the Dutch East India Company to all the big tech multinationals of today finding smarter ways to rule over us.
People should take over the streets in their thousands, invade the spaces of the 'mighty' day in and day out. Use ways and means, also humour to oust the moronic immoral, racist, lazy set of ignoramuses who think they can like some 'gods' ride on the backs of the working class.
Maybe I am ranting and raving because this is all that we have left!
I do believe Kshama Sawant. I have yet to see her back down from the fight. Brilliant and fiery : ) I have donated a large sum of funds to her new campaign for Rep. in Washington state. I would love to see Kshama kicking ass in CONgress : ) Rep. Cortez (no nickname for her) was and is a failure for change.
She does indeed stay the anti-Capitalist course. But I can't seem to ever allay my skepticism around anyone wasting that kind of energy in federal government -- such a sleazy corrupt pit in which to try to insert honest discourse. Like trying to cook fresh food in filthy cookware.
I agree with you. So many pretenders have failed working people. I thought one more time I will spend the dollars and the time for someone I admire. Kshama with her PHD in Econ. could walk away and profit or just have taken her full salary rather than donate half to her Workers Strike Back foundation. As long as she is staying on the path for working people, I will walk with her as I do with you my friend : )
Love your comment about who we do have. You might enjoy this webinar I just attended given by Mr. Fish the political cartoonist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhvgbBqJ59w.
I think we (on a global level) don't have enough of a LEFT left. I find that quite problematic and unsettling...
Indu - while I love your comment for its positivitism/motivational-factor, unlike you though, I fail to find "the hope that you find" from successes of the past and history's prominent revolutionaries. Maybe that's my own failing, or maybe I'm too much of a realist, or maybe it's something else...
I believe (rightly or wrongly) that our 'current global world/situation' requires different solutions/strategies on a whole another level. Unfortunately, I don't possess sufficient knowledge (or the intricate/highly-advanced systems thinking skills needed) to offer up solutions to our most urgent problems...
I like your ideas, and would support them, but I harbor doubts about it being enough (or even up-to-the-task) of challenging the 'System of Capitalism' (which I believe to be at the heart of the intensity of problems that we face currently).
Vin and Chang, The environment is ripe for a revolution. We the people should rise up without waiting for a leader. There's no Marx or Lenin or Che. Or Mao or a Ho Chi Min on the horizon. But we have plenty of Bertolt Brechts, Ken Saro-Wiwas , Lumumbas, Rosa Luxemburgs, Franz Fanons and all our poets, artists , writers and on and on. And women like Francesca Albanese, who in no uncertain terms explains how the world has gone from an "economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".
We have been asleep, we have been apathetic and let the old colonialists morph into neocolonialists. It has rolled on from the Dutch East India Company to all the big tech multinationals of today finding smarter ways to rule over us.
People should take over the streets in their thousands, invade the spaces of the 'mighty' day in and day out. Use ways and means, also humour to oust the moronic immoral, racist, lazy set of ignoramuses who think they can like some 'gods' ride on the backs of the working class.
Maybe I am ranting and raving because this is all that we have left!
I do believe Kshama Sawant. I have yet to see her back down from the fight. Brilliant and fiery : ) I have donated a large sum of funds to her new campaign for Rep. in Washington state. I would love to see Kshama kicking ass in CONgress : ) Rep. Cortez (no nickname for her) was and is a failure for change.
She does indeed stay the anti-Capitalist course. But I can't seem to ever allay my skepticism around anyone wasting that kind of energy in federal government -- such a sleazy corrupt pit in which to try to insert honest discourse. Like trying to cook fresh food in filthy cookware.
I agree with you. So many pretenders have failed working people. I thought one more time I will spend the dollars and the time for someone I admire. Kshama with her PHD in Econ. could walk away and profit or just have taken her full salary rather than donate half to her Workers Strike Back foundation. As long as she is staying on the path for working people, I will walk with her as I do with you my friend : )
Thank you, my friend. I do support her, wholeheartedly; just perennially concerned about the DC snake pit and its impact.
Love your comment about who we do have. You might enjoy this webinar I just attended given by Mr. Fish the political cartoonist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhvgbBqJ59w.
Thanks. Love Mr. Fish's work. Will check this out.
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>>"Maybe I am ranting and raving..."
I like your rants, Indu!
>>"..this is all that we have left!"
I think we (on a global level) don't have enough of a LEFT left. I find that quite problematic and unsettling...
Indu - while I love your comment for its positivitism/motivational-factor, unlike you though, I fail to find "the hope that you find" from successes of the past and history's prominent revolutionaries. Maybe that's my own failing, or maybe I'm too much of a realist, or maybe it's something else...
I believe (rightly or wrongly) that our 'current global world/situation' requires different solutions/strategies on a whole another level. Unfortunately, I don't possess sufficient knowledge (or the intricate/highly-advanced systems thinking skills needed) to offer up solutions to our most urgent problems...
I like your ideas, and would support them, but I harbor doubts about it being enough (or even up-to-the-task) of challenging the 'System of Capitalism' (which I believe to be at the heart of the intensity of problems that we face currently).