Tag: revolution

A letter to intellectuals who deride revolutions in the name of purity

Nov 20, 2019

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mesrod

Revolutions do not happen suddenly, nor do they immediately transform a society. A revolution is a process, which moves at different speeds whose tempo can change rapidly if the motor of history is accelerated by intensified class conflict. But, most of the time, the building of the revolutionary momentum is glacial, and the attempt to…
UN Report: Revolution Needed to Prevent Climate Disaster

Oct 27, 2018

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rsburke

Only a revolution can save us. That’s the take home message of the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on 8 October.
There are no Democratic or Green saviors: Get in the streets!

Nov 20, 2016

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fitzdon

There are no Democratic or Green saviors: Get in the streets! « Systemic Disorder Regardless of the outcome of November’s U.S. elections, what will count most is what happens in the streets. As Frederick Douglass put it plainly a century and a half ago, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes…