Revolution is not a Theory
By: Jonathan Clark
The time when the "free world" is robbing you of your freedoms, when the "free market" is a private market, and when "freedoms" are given up to protect our "rights" that revolution must come. And that time is now.
The revolution, our revolution, is not a definable pin-point on a general spectrum of revolutions. We are not part of a chapter in history, we are history. This is the point at which we must shout out and be heard, but not only to make noise, but to be heard.
It is deemeaning to our revolution when we speak of it in theory, and when we talk about it as if it is on the distant horizon. The revolution is when we stop being part of the capitalist machine. The progression of the species demands us to stand up and stop capitalism. The species can only progress scientifically, phylisophically, and morally if we end the boundaries capitalism places on science, phylosophy, and morals.
Communism is not the "next section of humanity" either. Communism is humanity. Communism is the culmination of the species working together for each other.
And our revolution is not something to be labelled, packaged, and shipped off to where it is needed. It is something that we are, that we can't hide, and that we give to the times when revolution can occur for justifiable reasons. When I say we, I mean us, the revolutionaries of our time. We cannot sit idly and read books about revolution, when the revolution is now. As it always will be.
The key to revolution, be it violence, peace, protests, or disorder of the machine itself, is everywhere. We can find it, we must find it. This is not a cry for action, it is the revealing of action.
Everywhere there are people unpleased with the chains of their lives. They have been told to think communism is evil, they have been told they are happy, they have been told to obey... and yet there are masses which defy these things. Capitalist nations can order what they want out of us, and the vast majority may forfeit their individualism and obey. But we, as revolutionaries, out of the reason for the continuation of the species, cannot let them silently obey.
Refuse the actions of the capitalist machine. Resist the actions of the capitalist machine. The time of considering ourselves part of the proletariat are over. The term proletariat is a dead term the moment the revolution conquers. Do not think of people as the bourgeois or the proletariat. Think of them as the stagnant, and the revolutionaries.
Reaction gets us nowhere, action takes us beyond where we are. Revolutionaries are not a tool of the oppressed, revolutionaries are the oppressed. One cannot fight without deep love of what they fight for, and I am willing to fight and die for the oppressed, the exploited, and those who cannot fight for themselves. I call out to every one of you and ask the same. Not for me, for the revolution.
Revolution is not a theory, it is a breathing organ of change. Revolution is not a theory, it is force of power and freedom. Revolution is not a theory, it is a the liberation of the human species.
Revolution is not a theory!
He who was previously the money-owner now strides out in front as a capitalist; the possessor of labour-power follows as his worker. The one smirks self-importantly and is intent on business; the other is timid and holds back, like someone who has brought his own hide to market and now has nothing else to expect but - a good tanning. - Karl Marx, Capital Volume I
