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, June 7, 2012

Neo-Nazi spokesman assaults MPs on live Greek TV show

Click here to access article and video posted by Jerome Roos from Reflections on a Revolution.
Increasingly, the fate of Greece appears to boil down to that famous line by Rosa Luxemburg: “socialism or barbarism”. With the EU and IMF driving the country’s population to the brink, right-wing extremists have found fertile soil for their violent and racist ideology. Unfortunately, however, when the polls open 10 days from now, socialism is not really an option. The choice is limited to radical social democracy — but it is a crucial choice nonetheless.
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