Expanding our reach beyond the “left” niche is how we can overcome pessimism, adventurism, & movement stagnation
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What happens when a circle of people who desire social change have conditioned themselves to view the people as fundamentally reactionary? When they act like the potential for change to happen is far less substantial than it actually is, because they in effect act like anyone who deviates from the orthodoxy of their exclusive club is incompatible with revolutionary politics? If they don’t become apolitical, and convinced that the destructive process of capitalism is impossible to stop, then they invest themselves in “solutions” which go against what can actually provide hope for workers victory.
Expanding our reach beyond the “left” niche is how we can overcome pessimism, adventurism, & movement stagnation
Expanding our reach beyond the “left” niche…
Expanding our reach beyond the “left” niche is how we can overcome pessimism, adventurism, & movement stagnation
What happens when a circle of people who desire social change have conditioned themselves to view the people as fundamentally reactionary? When they act like the potential for change to happen is far less substantial than it actually is, because they in effect act like anyone who deviates from the orthodoxy of their exclusive club is incompatible with revolutionary politics? If they don’t become apolitical, and convinced that the destructive process of capitalism is impossible to stop, then they invest themselves in “solutions” which go against what can actually provide hope for workers victory.