DEPAVER
10th May 2004, 02:47
Interesting piece, although bit dreamy, a bit theoretical. Syndicalism
is a grand idea; how do we get there is always the question.
How do we get the system to change to syndicalism? The system is
fighting labor organization with tooth and nail now, and successfully. What
could make that change? What could change it? If only thousands or millions
of people would understand and work together to bring about change, why,
things would be different!
Yeah. People don't. The system is the way it is because people do what
we do. It has always been 10% or less of the people who understand what is
and search for what might be. Meanwhile the world becomes what it becomes,
not because some small minority has a vision and works to change the way the
world works.
Yes, we got rid of slavery, sort of, or at least replaced it with
another kind of slavery. I used to think we had segregation and prejudice
licked, but look at our new modern, up to date crusades against the pagan
Muslims. I'll never get that image out of my head of the short haired woman
with a cigarette in her mouth pointing at a poor naked Iraqi's dick.
Nothing's changed.
I had thought we were making some kind of general progress, over the
years, a little bit at a time. Now I wonder.
I think it has a lot to do with religion. You can't have a rational and
sane society when 90% of the people believe in a God, Heaven and Hell and
look to an old man in a robe to tell them how to be good! Somewhere someone
has to start thinking for themselves!
Anyway, here's the essay:
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/aste.html
is a grand idea; how do we get there is always the question.
How do we get the system to change to syndicalism? The system is
fighting labor organization with tooth and nail now, and successfully. What
could make that change? What could change it? If only thousands or millions
of people would understand and work together to bring about change, why,
things would be different!
Yeah. People don't. The system is the way it is because people do what
we do. It has always been 10% or less of the people who understand what is
and search for what might be. Meanwhile the world becomes what it becomes,
not because some small minority has a vision and works to change the way the
world works.
Yes, we got rid of slavery, sort of, or at least replaced it with
another kind of slavery. I used to think we had segregation and prejudice
licked, but look at our new modern, up to date crusades against the pagan
Muslims. I'll never get that image out of my head of the short haired woman
with a cigarette in her mouth pointing at a poor naked Iraqi's dick.
Nothing's changed.
I had thought we were making some kind of general progress, over the
years, a little bit at a time. Now I wonder.
I think it has a lot to do with religion. You can't have a rational and
sane society when 90% of the people believe in a God, Heaven and Hell and
look to an old man in a robe to tell them how to be good! Somewhere someone
has to start thinking for themselves!
Anyway, here's the essay:
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/aste.html