For a Radical Subversive Pragmatism
Precarious capitalism did not give birth to a precarious class, but to a precarious multitude. We need everybody experiencing precarity in their lives to join in a broad alliance of forces.
Precarious capitalism did not give birth to a precarious class, but to a precarious multitude. We need everybody experiencing precarity in their lives to join in a broad alliance of forces.
“Long-haul truckers are a caste who are no strangers to hardship. We live in our rigs. So if truckers end up moving on Moscow in protest it would be easier than pie.”
The responsibility of the institutions that You represent is to protect the citizens, according to conscience and the law. If such postulates of a society do not exist, then we ask – why do institutions exist?
My friends and I started to believe that, by revolutionizing our everyday lives, we could change the world, or at least change ourselves through study, going from modern slaves to social actors with a sense of dignity.
“He was singled out as the only self-immolator who was driven by his ‘own moral consciousness,’ rather than, say, desperation or economic hardship.”
You cannot really draw a line and say, ‘this is where the far Right starts, and this is where it ends.’ Some far-Right positions permeate the entire political field.
There’s a lot of real old-fashioned class antagonism at the heart of this. When, on top of that class antagonism, you add an actual war with shooting, it becomes really ugly.
The right to healthcare is still written in the Bulgarian constitution, but is de facto cancelled as a ‘normal’ part of a wider process of ‘development’ characteristic of advanced capitalist societies.
A pair of AKL activists recently visited Tuzla and spoke with people involved in the citizens’ assemblies and protests there.
For Ukrainians, as for any other people in the world, the main threat is capitalism.