The Manifesto continues to make a splash among progressives. Check out an interesting review at OpedNews.
OpedNews Reviews the Manifesto
Ted Rall
http://rall.comTed Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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“A revolution is exactly what the United States needs. The amount of cultural/economic/political change needed to save the world in the brief time we have left is unimaginable without a revolution. You can argue that the ruling class is evil, you can argue that the ruling class is incompetent, you can argue that the ruling class is both. But it has never been more clear that the ruling class is impervious to reform through established channels and the rest of us can look forward to incalculable suffering unless we get rid of it.”
okay, you’ve got my attention! with you so far!
“So, if you want to attack the system, you attack money, not individuals.”
with you on destroying money, but virtually everyone, up and down the hierarchy, will kill-and-die to defend it, so there’s no way around serious, mortal conflict.
“So is that indeed all there is? If violence doesn’t work, does everyone have to supplicate before power?
“No, we can have a general strike. Withholding labor hurts money. Take over factories, take over office buildings, threaten to destroy expensive machinery, refuse to work at home. Join the workers in Europe who are doing the same thing. (Ya know, “Workers of the world, unite!” and all that.) If you get enough people, violence is irrelevant. Tell the boss his money is a social construction, and the rest of us refuse to grant its power or even existence any more. We’re going to try a new way of doing things. It would take a lot of organizing, but probably less organizing than a successful violent revolution would take. Either way requires a lot of organizing. Neither way is doom. And right now it’s a pleasant dream that tens of millions of bankrupt, foreclosed Americans have not even considered. They could even start the revolutionary ball rolling by refusing to leave their foreclosed homes. What could the police do if the million families who are expected to be evicted this year got together and became a million squatters?”
which brings me back to The White Rose Leaflets:
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/wrleaflets.html
peruse and internalize them
then create and distribute your own
“When the time comes, even if I don’t want to pick up a gun, I’d still like to be part of Ted Rall’s Autonomous Guerilla Group. Alternatively, I’d be proud to be tortured with him and Julian Assange at Guantanamo.”
to which this devout atheist responds:
AMEN!
though, i must admit
i am terrified by the thought