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I would say that's a sure-fire way to bringing about a successful revolution, but even I'm not that sarcastic...
The facts are on our side, we just need to make people aware of them. I was thinking of an anti-war campaign to send out pictures or posters of dead bodies in Afghanistan, in the style of a postcard of something. I know its very morbid but people will not see these images on the news so they can easily gloss over it in their minds. And when the reactionary government responds people ask why they are covering it up, and actually question how far their so called freedom of speech actually goes.
In the end, the ballot must decide, not bullets Jonas Savimbi
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers Aristotle
People may be ignorant when they don't have any problems of their own, but given the recourses to make the most out of their minds the masses of people in the third world would be much more intelligent and recourceful than 1st worlders. I'm a first worlder, and I have the feeling that if my school was in africa, everybody would be getting straight A's, it's all about effort, not raw intelligence. If it was, i'd be the validictorian.
For student organizing in california, join this group!
http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?groupid=1036
http://socialistorganizer.org/
"[I]t’s hard to keep potent historical truths bottled up forever. New data repositories are uncovered. New, less ideological, generations of historians grow up. In the late 1980s and before, Ann Druyan and I would routinely smuggle copies of Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution into the USSR—so our colleagues could know a little about their own political beginnings.”
--Carl Sagan
I'm not a fan of Che Guevara in the least, and those t-shirts are a contradiction of socialism and capitalism, but if they cause one person to read the words of che guevara or other leftist thinkers then they have a positive effect. It also helps other leftists feel more confident to express their views, and if nothing else is kind of a middle finger to the elite.
In the end, the ballot must decide, not bullets Jonas Savimbi
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers Aristotle
As a child i had a morbid fascination with world affairs, conflict and recent history. Probably a by product of spending my childhood in the latter days of the cold war. I used to love watching movies on the subject matter like 'when the wind blows' and 'by dawns early light'. My interest in science exacerbated my pursuit of political knowledge because i would collect and read literature on space exploration, nuclear physics, nuclear miltary strategy and concepts like mutually assured destruction. Investigating the political ideologies behind these was an inevitable follow on.
By the age of about 8 i could draw a map of the world from memory with an understanding of the political spheres of influence.
In some ways im a closet soviet nostalgist. I miss the days when there was a credible counter balance to american unilateralism.
Last edited by Dr Mindbender; 4th April 2011 at 01:34.
