Even someone in Zionist Israel can recognize the beauty of the human spirit when the yoke of oppression is lifted off of them. She captures some of this spirit in her article.
It is a rare privilege to experience a time when people feel truly liberated and empowered for the first time in their lives. I experienced this spirit when I visited Nicaragua in 1982 when the spirit was still alive after the people got rid of Somoza and established their own government. It is a spirit that is hard to describe. It is a euphoric high like no drug can produce. Love rules everywhere. You can see this in the faces of the people, in their caring behavior toward each other.
Unfortunately, this event so far in human history usually lasts only for a short time until the yoke of oppression is placed on them again by a ruling class. Nowadays, it is the capitalists who allegedly "own" our economy, or all the major components of it; and to serve their economy means that the rest of us must become powerless wage slaves.
See also this piece entitled, "Transformed by the Revolution", from Socialist Worker that also captures some of this spirit.
Revolutions are schools of profound self-education. They destroy submission and resignation, and they release long-repressed creative energies--intelligence, solidarity, invention, self-activity. In so doing, they reweave the fabric of everyday life. The horizons of possibility expand. The unthinkable--that ordinary people might control their lives--becomes both thinkable and practical.
