Helping vs Revolution

[razboz]

I've been wondering for a while which seems more important to you: Helping make the world a better place, or planning and carrying ou the overthrow of the system?

I feel this is an important question, and one i have not been able to answer for myself adequately. I have been for a long time skeptical of anything like unions, or not-for-profit charity groups or anything of the like. I see these as ways of working in the system and helping it as much as helping the poor and unnourished or whatever. However i feel that as revolutionaries one of our main goals is the betterment of humanity. Does the revolution take precedent over the well-being of those who cannot provide for themselves?

the main reason i see a conflict here is that there really is only enough time and resources to do one: either help those who need it or overthrow the state. Organic Revolution has a thread here about social programs. i think these are really good, and the kind of thing i'd love to have the initiative and organisational skills to pull off. but i cant help but wonder: could this time be better spent planning and carrying out concrete revolutionary actions?

[eXacto]

I , personally , do not believe in a big revolution such as leftists can describe so sweet. It's just not an option in the nearby future (i'm talking 'bout years....) . I think helping people is much more efficient. It works directly , and it are what you can call mini-revolutions. All these mini-revolutions together will over the years change the society into being more social. A big overthrow is not something i see happening , there aren't enough of us to do so.

[joe_the_red]

I believe in the Revolution BECAUSE I want to help people. I believe that as long as the capitalist-fascist empires have power, we will never have real results. I will be doing both, at the absolute best of my abilities, working to creat social programs to build irrigation, schools, and hospitals in impoverished areas such as Africa, Latin America, Middle-East, Asia..., helping national-liberation movements any way I can, working to spread communism so that common people can be free. I absolutely believe that we need the revolution, and that it will help people. -Joe

[welshboy]

The projects that Organic Revolution mentioned on the other thread will hopefully have the effect of building up some class strength and putting in place to some small extent the mechanisms with which we can do away with the state.