Free Democracy is an answer. It has no leaders, just an administration that the people directly control.

http://www.freedemocrats.co.uk

Ordinary people have to seize power. That’s what democracy is – it’s “one human, one unit of power”. Ordinary people need to create that political reality, and not stop until it’s accomplished, and afterwards sustain it. If instead the people believe…

“The people as a group cannot be blamed for this – they mostly just want to live and let live and are mostly too worn down just trying to survive and provide better for their children. Of course they are deliberately maintained in this condition – but they cannot be blamed for that.”

Are their descendants going to forgive them for being “too beaten down to create a better world”? Is that the kind of thing that should be on someone’s tombstone? I would have trouble leaving any flowers upon my ancestors’ graves if that inscription was etched.

Struggle is the only path in life – struggle is perpetual until victory is achieved. Capitalists understand this and live just that reality yet the supposed “social justice movement” makes up excuses like “Oh, no, it’s just too difficult to fight!”

The reason we are nearing a world of capitalist totalitarian control is because for the most part capitalists have defeated socialists. The only way to correct that is for socialists to defeat capitalists. The only way to produce that victory is to fight and destroy capitalism. “We’re too beaten down to fight” is not a path to victory.

“Most revolutions have used the people to overthrow their tyrants simply to see the old tyrants replaced with a new batch.”

In a democratic revolution, the revolution IS the people. There is no such thing as a democratic revolution that involves a “vanguard”.

The people as a group cannot be blamed for this – they mostly just want to live and let live and are mostly too worn down just trying to survive and provide better for their children. Of course they are deliberately maintained in this condition – but they cannot be blamed for that.

Neither can they be expected to rebel unless a better life can really be delivered. Most revolutions have used the people to overthrow their tyrants simply to see the old tyrants replaced with a new batch.

A solution is Free Democracy – a system where the people, properly informed, may directly make the decisions of their government without relying on ‘leaders’ to do so. Until such a government is created, giving the people real power for the first time in history, the people should not be blamed for the actions of those the system prevents them from controlling.

http://www.freedemocrats.co.uk

It’s the “poor” people of the United States who have the most in common with the non-American victims of the American state. It’s the unemployed and the minimum wagers who are in the best position to share solidarity. But when a minimum-wager in America earns in an hour what 2 billion global workers earn in a week, there’s not a whole lot in common. American minimum wagers eat meat – those global workers eat mud cakes and rice. Americans, top to bottom, are the enemy for most of the world.

No amount of willpower or good intentions can overcome the material reality that the privileged class in America will always protect their status. Their excuses are endless, “feeding my family” being the most common. University professors are victims – victims of their own affluence. They will never serve the interests of the poor as they simply do not share those interests.

Harry Callahan said it succinctly: “A man’s got to know his limitations”.

American progressives are great at dreaming and terrible at reality.

More than 40 years ago Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his greatest speech, at Riverside Church in New York City. This was the speech that heralded his approach toward global socialism, which threatened American hegemony and led quickly to his murder. Here’s a highlight from that speech:

“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. one day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be consantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. it comes to see that an edifice which produces begars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: “This is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: “This is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Fair enough – if we were approaching spiritual death more than 40 years ago, what is the current status of Americans?

All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue. A humanitarian is always a hypocrite, and Kipling’s understanding of this is perhaps the central secret of his power to create telling phrases. It would be difficult to hit off the one-eyed pacifism of the English in fewer words than in the phrase, ‘making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep’.

From The Age of War: The United States Confronts the World by Gabriel Kolko