Morning Comrades.
Power. Fascinatingly enough, over the course of the last few decades whenever this topic came up so many people that I have encountered whimpered away and gave some half-arsed bullshit talk about how “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely ( an observation Lord Acton made in a letter to Bishop Creighton on April 5, 1887. )” - something we were all indoctrinated with in school at some point and it is one of the clearest indications of white western privilege to shy away from this discussion. Again, the lack of class awareness stops the discussion in tracks by forgetting who told us the above.
On that note, power, is exactly what I did thesis on and the offer remains, for anyone that is interested, I’ll happily send over a link to the introduction.
It is even more fascinating considering the fact that our enemies talk and think about nothing else since time immemorial, the accumulation of wealth exists precisely for that purpose, to wield power over “man and all creations on earth” to shape reality to their benefit. With all the ideas and plans we have for our collective liberation from the yoke of capitalism we need power and yet, all too often, we shy away from what power actually is and more importantly, how to attain it, wield it and not be corrupted by it. Before your rejection based on the above even kicks in, understand that what we consider corruption, they consider success, our perception of corruption only kicks in when they burn down cities for their amusement and out detriment. Without power, all of “this” remains an intellectual exercise of the privileged, part of their controlled opposition and guess what:
Insight, foresight, moresight,
The clock on the wall says quarter past midnight.
Continuing, we are going to look at power, how to get it, how to maintain and pass it on through the less on classical, modern and de-colonial marxist thought and praxis, as well as the work done by the EZLN and in Rojava.
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