I’ve [retreated] from being so action focused because I didn’t see the sum of all the actions I was doing actually building anything that was creating any fighting potential to actually challenge the social conditions around me.
You have to decide before your action, what is my end result? What do I want to achieve?
I think there’s something to be said for keeping our internal struggles internal.
My own feeling is that there are values that I think I’d like to see broadened to be values that people can work with.
Everyone, for reasons that were completely ahistorical, is really surprised by the emergence of things like the black bloc or…the Ya Bastas from Southern Europe. There was…this moment where everyone was like, ‘oh! Where did all of this come from?’
systemic mass movements are absolutely a priority if we want to change the world.
imagination is…a people’s spirit to resist and live otherwise than they do right now.
