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Highlighting things in this article as hopeful points towards community building and working for the 99%, not the 1%.
Highlights
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If we apply our labor toward building a new world, that new world would be built overnight. We have millions and millions of people who devote their time every day toward making profit for a few people at the top. If we devoted that same level of intentionality, of organization, of coordination, toward saving our species and living more full lives and improving the state of humanity, we would do it. But it takes the consciousness that it’s possible. We cannot accept fearmongering and doomerism. We have to move in militant optimism
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The protagonist of world history is regular people whose names you’ll never know, and when you see regular people harness their power to shut down a corporation, it can awaken a person’s consciousness.
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I worked directly with senators, and I know they know that they can’t do anything to change the underlying conditions of America. Whatever your pet issue is — gun violence, climate change, income inequality — they know, and we know they know, that they don’t actually have the power.
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I think we have to exercise a new lever of power that is not centralized in Obama, or Bernie, or any great hero. It’s decentralized. Every worker sees the tool that they have, their trade, as part and parcel of building a better world. If we want to address the problems of our communities, we need the people who live in the communities determining the future of those communities. If we always give our real democratic power over our lives to the ruling class, they will never give in. They will give concessions, but they will never fundamentally transform the living conditions. And they certainly are not going to abolish the fossil fuel state in time to save ourselves.