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

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Problem of the Biodegradibility of Revolution

Click here to access article by Jim Macdonald from Northern Rockies Independent Media Network. 

This piece offers a prime example of the thinking of people in the current Occupy movement. They are learning from history, and understand that to build a new society, present class structured societies must be fought with radically different revolutionary movement systems--ones that are not power-structured in any way, where power is generated by consensus, and upon which a social structure is constructed on a foundation of small groups at the local level. Only such a revolutionary force can change the existing social arrangements and result in socially just societies, societies that are capable of existing in harmony with nature. I can see no other alternative for the survival of the human race in any form except a nightmarish dystopia.
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