https://johnriddell.com/2016/08/16/climate-justice-and-the-prospect-of-power/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Tue, 23 Aug 2016 05:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.12 https://johnriddell.com/2016/08/16/climate-justice-and-the-prospect-of-power/#comment-6605 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 05:24:45 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2776#comment-6605 Hello John et al, it seems to me that *power* is the only thing we should be fighting for, right now – the people currently running our country and much of the western world don’t care how many people are running around under the castle walls complaining, they have a plan and they’re sticking to it, and the *only* way we are going to get things moving ‘our’ way is if we occupy (legitimately) the halls of power where the rules are made – that would be the House of Commons in Canada (I suspect the rulers are quite happy to have people running around waving their fists and causing trouble – Mr and Ms average citizen, who need their jobs and are trying to save for various things, need some stability, and prefer bad rules to no rules and aren’t going to be supporting what they perceive as calls for (the bad kind of) anarchy, and when people are occupied with demonstrations, they’re very much not occupied with planning a ‘legitimate’ democratic takeover). A considerably longer dissertation on the idea if anyone is interested (which, somewhat to my surprise, but not all that much I guess, on deeper reflection, more or less nobody seems to be) – Democratic Revolution Handbook http://www.rudemacedon.ca/drh/000-home.html

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