We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, March 31, 2011

'West owns Libya opposition'

a Press TV interview with Ralph Schoenman.  

This author and left-wing political commentator provides us with the best history that I've seen of the Gaddafi regime, its real relationship with the Empire, and what this history portends.
Until a struggle for liberation combines the democratic tasks of national independence and sovereignty and democratic entitlement with social ownership of the means of production, neocolonial regimes will displace a mass movement; will contain it or corrupt it in any manner to suppress it and we see that dynamic unfolding.
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