The Sparks of Rebellion

[Griff]

This is a great article by Chris Hedges from Truthdig on where the protest movement most go to post Occupy. I truly agree with his statement that peaceful protest is necessary, but it also requires a supporting infrastructure that currently does not exist.

An excerpt:

"We must develop a revolutionary theory that is not reliant on the industrial or agrarian muscle of workers. Most manufacturing jobs have disappeared, and, of those that remain, few are unionized. Our family farms have been destroyed by agro-businesses. Monsanto and its Faustian counterparts on Wall Street rule. They are steadily poisoning our lives and rendering us powerless. The corporate leviathan, which is global, is freed from the constraints of a single nation-state or government. Corporations are beyond regulation or control. Politicians are too anemic, or more often too corrupt, to stand in the way of the accelerating corporate destruction. This makes our struggle different from revolutionary struggles in industrial societies in the past. Our revolt will look more like what erupted in the less industrialized Slavic republics, Russia, Spain and China and uprisings led by a disenfranchised rural and urban working class and peasantry in the liberation movements that swept through Africa and Latin America. The dispossessed working poor, along with unemployed college graduates and students, unemployed journalists, artists, lawyers and teachers, will form our movement. This is why the fight for a higher minimum wage is crucial to uniting service workers with the alienated college-educated sons and daughters of the old middle class. Bakunin, unlike Marx, considered déclassé intellectuals essential for successful revolt."

Full article here:

http://http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_sparks_of_rebellion_20130930

I hope you find it as inspirational as I did.

All the best

Griff

[Kristin]

So tell me Griff, you looking for the sparks of rebellion in that light socket?

LOL, seriously though, Chris is one of my favorites. Ouch!

From the Heart,
Kristin

[Griff]

For that comment, you get a kick from across the couch!. ;-)

Griff