“We need to move from living in competition to living in common.”
Being able to let go of self-enclosed individualism could unleash a broad socialist project.
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Prefiguration & Permanent Revolution
Assertions of the basic human freedom to make and remake social relations.
Our Destinies Are Linked
What is desperately needed is solidarity among all revolutionaries (Arabs, Kurds, and all other ethnicities) who are against the Assad regime and against all the regional and international imperialist powers. Joseph Daher
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Radical Empathy and Collective Power
Empathy itself is just feeling another person’s experience. It is a precursor to understanding. It is a precursor to friendship, it is a precursor to reconciliation.
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“All of these things have to be solved together.”
If we combine the ideas of ending tax cuts for the rich and cutting the military budget, we would have all the money we need for all these things we need for our survival.
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A Planetary Paradigm Shift
Seriously thinking about how to confront climate change exposes the limits of our political imagination. We have to begin by realizing where we stand in the longer arc of the Earth’s natural history.
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A Dynamic New Labor Internationalism
People are paid so little they are hungry, they are paid so little they are homeless; people literally risk their lives every day by going to work. But the first item on their agenda is respect. They want to be treated with dignity.
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We Retain the Dignity of the Revolution
The answer to why we don’t accept that Assad remains in power is obvious: he killed our children, and the scars of their smiles are etched on our hearts.
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Countermapping Alternatives to the Neoliberal Nonfuture
Helping children learn how to map is a radical act when they map spaces that have been left out of history; through that process they learn that people have always acted collaboratively and in ways that are beneficial to their communities.
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Solidarity, Resistance, and Other Ecstasies
When we do start to say we want things to be different, that’s when people come together, isn’t it? That’s where we find joy emerging. We need more of that, more of the time.
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Love in a Hopeless Place
The toughest battle we have to fight in Syria today is against the collapse of our own ideals, the fight against a mentality that subordinates everything to the exigencies of war.
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