Resolution kernelled from Revolutionary thought

Edited, excerpted by Carolyn Bennett

“… Not Enough to ‘Do Good’ in a Bad World —

We Must Bring Into Being a Whole, Better World”

Scan the globe starting with Pakistan and Afghanistan where U.S. drones rain death down on families in wars grinding on seemingly without end.

Move to the Democratic Republic of Congo where political forces and militias—set up by, and serving competing capitalist entities and governments—systematically rape women and girls so brutally they are no longer able to hold their bladders or their bowels.

Look at the razing of the planet’s forests, extermination of its species, poisoning of its waters and air by corporations and militaries competing for dominance.

Cast your eyes into the concrete and broken-glass ghettoes of the USA where Black and Latino youth as young as ten or twelve years old are daily brutalized by police.

Turn to the United States’ southern border where immigrants live in the shadows and in fear of imprisonment and deportation for nothing more than crossing the border in search of a means to survive.

Look to Washington, D.C., the pulsing heart of a so-called beacon of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy.’ Witness the ever-narrowing range of political discourse — open fascism at the one end; an aggressively repressive, compromising-with-fascism administration at the other.

Revolution newspaper makes no chatter about “the best dressed in 2010” or the “latest celebrity breakup.” It offers no predictions about “trend-setting iPhone applications.” No tips on “how to take off inches gained over the holidays” or the etiquette of “exchanging gifts” received …

Revolution calls attention to something that is much less reported, less known, Bigger-hearted, more global-minded, and much more consequential — … A movement for revolution struggling to be born...

A revolution that can lift all of humanity out of its war-torn, blood-soaked, hunger-stricken state...

A revolution that will empower people to build a society where people are no longer exploited, competing with each other just to survive, and brutally oppressed.

[A revolution] that can not only put a stop to the plunder and destruction of the planet; but can unleash the creativity and joyfulness, the critical thinking and highest aspirations of masses everywhere as they join together to transform the world — and themselves — in the most liberating ways.…

… Let us refuse to let the weight of horrors we detest restrict our dreams, diminish our determination. Let us not aim merely to ‘do some good’ in a terrible world; but, instead, take up the challenge “to bring into being a whole, better world.

Source
A Revolutionary Resolution (Revolution No. 221), January 9, 2011),  http://revcom.us/a/221/editorial-en.html

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