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1) Raise consciousness with the purpose of building organization and raising the level of struggle.
2) Investigate before forming opinions. Research how the world and the system function.
3) Read foundational and historical works about revolution, by those who have participated in and led them.
4) Analyze the system’s current condition and trajectory.
5) Learn about the resistance, uprisings and revolutions going on in the world today.
6) Read the material that currently active groups are issuing and discussing.
7) Continuously develop, elaborate upon and refine principles, theories and strategies for our movement.
8. Raise our voices. Articulate revolutionary ideas, and give them a public presence.
9) Listen and speak in the spirit of mutual clarification.
10) Participate in discussion, to develop our ideas and hone our skills in expressing them, and to help others do so.
11) Figure out how to use all our various talents, positions, energy and resources as effectively as possible, to expose the system’s evil, irredeemable and unreformable nature.
12) Analyze and explain the many ways the system dominates and exploits.
13) Stand with the dominated, exploited, invaded, colonized, threatened and oppressed.
14) Display a revolutionary spirit and celebrate it in others.
15) Exercise patience in winning over reluctant potential allies and supporters.
16) Ridicule and discredit the enemy.
17) Create revolutionary culture. Make videos and art, speak, sing, and write blogs, books, comments, leaflets, rhymes, stories, and articles about the enemy’s crimes and the people’s resistance.
18) Exchange ideas locally, nationally and (within the law or safe channels) globally.
19) Encourage others to participate in the revolutionary process.
Does Mexico have the Sovereign ‘Right’ to join and host a Chinese-led Military Alliance and Bases? The US would invade and destroy. . Does Ukraine have the ‘Right’ to join and host US-led NATO on Russia’s border?
The conflict is about NATO and its expansion, and Moscow sees Kiev as a proxy for the bloc
By Glenn Diesen, editor at ‘Russia in Global Affairs’ journal. Follow on Substack.
Political realism is commonly and mistakenly portrayed as immoral because its principal focus is on an inescapable security competition, and it thus rejects idealist efforts to transcend power politics.
Because states cannot break away from security competition, morality for the realist entails acting in accordance with the balance of power logic as the foundation for stability and peace.
Idealist efforts to break with power politics can then be defined as immoral, as they undermine the management of the security competition as the foundation of peace.
As Raymond Aron expressed in 1966: “The idealist, believing he has broken with power politics, exaggerates its crimes.”
Ukraine’s “Sovereign Right to join NATO”
The most appealing and dangerous idealist argument that has destroyed Ukraine is that it has the right to join any military alliance it desires. It is a very attractive statement that easily won support from the public, as it affirms the freedom and sovereignty of Ukraine, and the alternative is seemingly that Russia should be allowed to dictate Ukraine’s policies.
However, arguing that Ukraine should be allowed to join any military alliance is an idealist argument, as it appeals to how we would like the world to be, not how the world actually works.
The principle that peace is derived from the expansion of military alliances without taking into account the security interests of other great powers has never existed in reality.
States such as Ukraine that border a great power have every reason to express legitimate security concerns, but inviting a rival great power such as the US into its territory intensifies the security competition.
Is it moral to insist on how the world ought to be when brutal massacring war is the consequence of ignoring how the world actually works?
The alternative to expanding NATO is not to accept a Russian sphere of influence, which denotes a zone of exclusive influence. Peace is derived from recognizing a Russian sphere of interests, which is an area where Russian security interests must be recognized and incorporated rather than excluded.
It did not use to be controversial to argue that Russian security interests must be taken into account when operating on its borders.
This is why Europe had a belt of neutral states as a buffer between East and West during the Cold War to mitigate the security competition.
Mexico, for example, has plenty of freedoms in the international system, but it does not have the freedom to join a Chinese-led military alliance or to host Chinese military bases.
The idealist argument that Mexico can do as it pleases implies ignoring US security concerns, and the result would likely be the US destruction of Mexico.
If Scotland secedes from the UK and then joins a Russian-led military alliance and hosts Russian missiles, would the English still champion the principle of consent?
When we live in a realist world and recognize that security competition must be mitigated for peace, then we accept a security system based on mutual constraints.
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Is it over? Will people continue to die due to the Covid vaccines? Or have the excess deaths hit their peak? Or should I keep worrying about all of my friends and family who got jabbed? A recent newspaper article (UK’s The Telegraph) boasted the headlines: “Covid vaccines may have helped fuel rise in excess […]
Young people from Amazonian communities march during the Pan-Amazon Social Forum in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia on June 12. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News Aiming to prevent “climate and ecological collapse,” rainforest inhabitants release a detailed plan to save their home, honing in on ending fossil fuel subsidies and securing Indigenous land rights Source: Inside Climate News RURRENABAQUE, […]
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