For that little Revolutionary inside all of us (or maybe just me)...

Dec 11, 2005 02:43

"'Don't speak to me of revolution until you are ready to eat rats to survive.' Quotes like this one from the Last Poets make me wonder how effective the use of nonviolence really is. In the US and elsewhere, the 'progressive left' seem to be practicing 'comfort zone politics.' I, for one, seriously doubt that we can win a war against imperialism ( Read more... )

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ergo_ego December 11 2005, 13:19:20 UTC
I think civil disobedience is the best weapon the common person has to stand against the state. Any force that could be summoned up to attack the government would be easily swatted away. Least that's the way I see it.

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131dbs December 11 2005, 17:26:47 UTC
When The Revolution Comes
Written By Abiodun Oyewole
Recorded by The Original Last Poets

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