….all the things that people understand [come through struggle], not by some theoretical discussion, [but] by creating an action based on what it is people want and when you do that action, the action itself leads to awareness….
Leadership and revolution I23 Jan. 29, 2015 …a belief in intrinsic spontaneity of the masses to be revolutionary without hard, slogging leadership….[is a] disease…
I don’t believe in models…but there are examples and when one stands up and fights for principle, when one puts a revolutionary interest, when one puts the interests of the people in the forefront you can accomplish…tremendous…things.
…I guess some element of me is as leery of what we will do in the name of change…
Diversity of tactics – really what it boils down to is black bloc versus no black bloc and that…gets turned into violence versus non-violence [but] they don’t line up.
….I am a radical in that I would prefer there to be a destruction of capitalism….
Eventually I came to [anarchism]… and a complete rejection of the entire system and seeing its destruction as the only possible solution.
