Why I love my comrades…a letter from my heart & soul
June 29th, 2020 | Published in General
“To avoid misunderstanding, we feel it necessary to remark that what we call the people’s ideal has nothing to do with those political and social constructs, formulas, and theories which bourgeois scholars or semi-scholars devise at their leisure, in isolation from popular life, and graciously offer to the ignorant crowd as the necessary form of their future organization. We have no faith whatsoever in those theories, and even the best of them seem to us Procrustean beds, too narrow to encompass the broad and powerful sweep of popular life.”
- Mikhail Bakunin, Appendix A
“Let us add one more word in conclusion. The class which we call our intellectual proletariat, and which is already in a social-revolutionary situation (meaning simply a desperate and impossible one), must be imbued with a conscious passion for the cause of social revolution if it does not want to perish shamefully and in vain. This class is now called upon to prepare, that is, to organize, a popular revolution. It has no other alternative. Thanks to the education it has received, it might, of course, seek to obtain some more or less profitable position in the already overcrowded and very inhospitable ranks of the robbers, exploiters, and oppressors of the people. In the first place, however, there are fewer and fewer such positions, so that they are accessible only to a very small number of people. The majority will be left only with the shame of betrayal and will perish in poverty, insignificance, and baseness. But we are addressing ourselves only to those for whom betrayal is unthinkable and impossible.”
- Mikhail Bakunin, Appendix A
I love the working class and underclass people in my lives
The beautiful civil disobedience
Internal Riots in our hearts
On my end, I wish to find a friend
A lover who I can joyfully riot with
Go outside and feel like the creature I am…
But, I constantly feel as though I am nothing
but a useless, trapped, suburbanite….
others outside with solidarity in protests gives me hope
that maybe one day…..I’ll be free
