I think a lot about how, if the glorious violent Revolution never happens, every kid with significant medical needs in a hospital, every kid in a third world and even first world country without food, every slave working in inhumane conditions, every Palestinian that is on the receiving end of a genocide, every soul born into poverty because of the capitalist greed, will die.
You can decide you’re not willing to sacrifice your own life, but you don’t get to tell everybody else on the planet they are collateral damage.
Because when you are in a place of privilege it is easy to condemn violence while the very system that is in place is in fact a violent one. Just because you can’t directly see it, and just because you are currently not its victim, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. And sadly, violence is required to overthrow this system and to protect the socialist system that will replace it. Go tell a child slave in the cobalt mines in Congo that, uhm, akshually violence is bad so we shouldn’t use it in our uprising, while said kid is working 14 hours a day or face starvation. Go tell Palestinians that violence is wrong when their land is being colonized for decades now. Please, do it once, for our amusement.
I think a lot about how, if the glorious violent Revolution never happens, every kid with significant medical needs in a hospital, every kid in a third world and even first world country without food, every slave working in inhumane conditions, every Palestinian that is on the receiving end of a genocide, every soul born into poverty because of the capitalist greed, will die.
You can decide you’re not willing to sacrifice your own life, but you don’t get to tell everybody else on the planet they are collateral damage.
Because when you are in a place of privilege it is easy to condemn violence while the very system that is in place is in fact a violent one. Just because you can’t directly see it, and just because you are currently not its victim, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. And sadly, violence is required to overthrow this system and to protect the socialist system that will replace it. Go tell a child slave in the cobalt mines in Congo that, uhm, akshually violence is bad so we shouldn’t use it in our uprising, while said kid is working 14 hours a day or face starvation. Go tell Palestinians that violence is wrong when their land is being colonized for decades now. Please, do it once, for our amusement.
Very well said!