Tag: Revolution

Rinky-Dink Revolution

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Rinky-Dink Revolution

The great question is then: Why, if we have a project that favors the immense majority, does this not translate into an equivalent social and electoral support? The explanation we often give is that conservative forces use the media to disseminate a deformed vision of our project. But we are also at fault for this misunderstanding. We have not been able to explain to the people the real dimensions of our project in terms they can understand. And worst of all, our lives have not been coherent with our project. We preach democracy but we act in an authoritarian way; we want to build a solidarian society but we are selfish; we advocate for the defense of nature but we are consumerists. If we want to convince, we need to change ourselves as well.

—Marta Harnecker & Tassos Tsakiroglou,“A New Revolutionary Subject,” Monthly Review 71, no. 5 (October 2019):58-62.

America Will Likely Experience a Social Breakdown in the 2020s

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The United States, like the other parts of the world that have been ravaged by rampant economic inequality and corporate despotism, is headed for a social breakdown. This gets more apparent every time wealth disparity is shown to be at a decades-high level, every time the military budget is expanded by billions of dollars to…
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