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dcdicH' ourselves to what we consider necessary or desirable.
I·:ilh 'I' W:ly, we live the world we want to create.
Now. There is an urgency in all this. Enough! j¥a basta!
W ha ve had enough of living in, and creating, a world of
'xploitation, violence and starvation. And now there is a new
IIrgency, the urgency of time itself. It has become clear that
W humans are destroying the natural conditions of our own
'xi tence, and it seems unlikely that a society in which the
d termining force is the pursuit of profit can reverse this trend .
. rhe temporal dimensions of radical and revolutionary thought
have changed. We place a skull on our desks, like the monks of
old, not to glorify death, but to focus on the impending danger
and intensify the struggle for life. It no longer makes sense to
speak of patience as a revolutionary virtue or to talk of the
'future revolution'. What future? We need revolution now, here
and now. So absurd, so necessary. So obvious.
Nothing more common, nothing more obvious. There is
nothing special about being an anti-capitalist revolutionary. This
is the story of many, many people, of millions, perhaps billions.
It is the story of the composer in London who expresses his
a nger and his dream of a better society through the music he
composes. It is the story of the gardener in Cholula who creates
a garden to struggle against the destruction of nature. Of the
car worker in Birmingham who goes in the evenings to his
garden allotment so that he has some activity that has meaning
a nd pleasure for him. Of the indigenous peasants in Oventic,
,h iapas, who create an autonomous space of self-government
and defend it every day against the paramilitaries who harass
th 'In. Of the university professor in Athens who creates a
S 'l11inar outside the university framework for the promotion
of ritical thought. Of the book publisher in Barcelona who
. 'ntres his activity on publishing books against capitalism. Of
th ' friends in Porto Alegre who form a choir, just because they
('njoy , inging. Of the teachers in Puebla who confront police
oppr ssion to fight for a different type of school, a different type
of l'du ·ation. Of the theatre director in Vienna who decides she
will LIS' her skills to open a different world to those who see
II\'I' plnys. f the call centre worker in Sydney who fills all his
vnv 1111 mom 'nts thinking of how to fight for a better society.
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