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"The rebel is the standard-bearer of the visionaries who gradually increase man's ethical stature; because there is always evil around us, he represents one of the eternal dimensions of mankind.... Even if perfect social justice and complete freedom from want were to prevail in a world at peace, rebels would still be needed wherever the world is out of joint, which now means everywhere." -- Rene' Dubos
I beleive our capitalist society has made us so focused on carnal survival, we have reduced pleasure to its most base and carnal forms. Pleasure is only worthy if it can be commodified, bought and sold, it's soul reduced to qualities that can be quantified in the industrial process of production.
I reject the vulgar materialism of our society that wants to force everyone to worship a white god and a white jesus while betraying the morales it claims to stand for, chasing after economic wealth, and measuring a person's worth by the value of their portfolio. While most of the world lives on less than $1/day, the biggest problem for most people in the "first" world is obesity, Money cannot bring me happiness, but the lack of it spreads the most horrible misery. Thousands starve every day while the food that could feed them rots or is destoryed. Why? So the rich can get richer, while the poor get poorer.
Revolution is the creation of new human relations by masses of people in motion to a new society, and a revolutionary tries to organize with the Subjects of Revolution - Workers, Blacks, Women, and Youth - a new society whose end is the self-development of each individuals potentials. A revolutionary individual or group tries to provide a free space for this self-development; but the question of to do this can remain abstract if seperated from the goal - the new human relations must be made the ground of the organizetion. It is our historic responsability as intellectuals and organizers to unite the passions emerging from the Subjects of Revolution both philosophically (as an expression of a new human relationship) and organizationally (what it means in our daily lives); in other words, I see our role as revolutionaries to unite our vision of a new society with its organization as new human relations here and now. I do not view this as a stagnant process, but as a Revolution-in-Permancence where each emerging contradiction becomes a challenge to re-organize and re-think ourselves as ground for the comming American Revolution.
"When the narrow bougeois form has been peeled away, what is wealth, if not the universality of needs, capacties, enjoyments, productive powers, etc., of individuals, produced in universal exchange?... What, if not the absolute elaboration of their [human] creative dispositions, without any preconditions other than antecedent historical evolution which makes the totality of this evolution - i.e. the evolution of all human powers as such, unmeasured by any previously established yardstick - an end in itself? What is this, if not a situation where humans do not reproduce themselves in any predetermined form. but produce their totality? Where they do not seek to remain something formed by the past, but are in the absolute moment of becoming?" -- K. Marx
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