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Radical Digressions
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We don’t know if we’ll win: history is made by human beings, and where human beings are concerned, nothing is inevitable. But because people do make history, we know that it is possible to build a new world, and we strive to realize that possibility.
What is Libertarian Socialism?
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Words of Wisdom
- Since it is not for us to create a plan for the future that will hold for all time, all the more surely what we contemporaries have to do is the uncompromising critical evaluation of all that exists, uncompromising in the sense that our criticism fears neither its own results nor the conflict with the powers that be.
- – Karl Marx
- If you expect to see the final results of your work you have not asked a big enough question.
- – I.F. Stone
- Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
- – Romain Rolland, popularised by Antonio Gramsci
- Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
- – Andre Gide
- Revolution is never practical until the roar of revolution strikes. Then it alone is practical, and all the efforts of the conservatives and compromisers become the most futile and visionary of human language.
- – James Connolly
Favourite Links
- Connexions
- Against the Current
- Bureau of Public Secrets
- CounterPunch
- Insurgent Notes
- International Luxemburgist Current
- Libcom
- Marxist Archive
- Middle East Resources
- Noam Chomsky
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About Ulli Diemer/Radical Digressions
Radical Digressions (www.diemer.ca) is my personal website/notebook/blog.
I live in Toronto, where I am co-ordinator of the Connexions project (www.connexions.org), a left-wing information portal dealing with social justice, human rights, civil liberties, ecosocialism, radical political theory, and libertarian socialism, as well as many other topics. Connexions features an extensively indexed online library, a directory of progressive groups and websites, and an event calendar. We also maintain the Connexions Archive, a physical archive of documents and books, created to preserve the history of grassroots movements for social change. Most of the collection comprises English-language materials from Canada from the 1960s to the present.
My politics: I am a libertarian socialist. My goal is the end of capitalism and its replacement by socialism, ‘an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.’
Socialism is fundamentally about expanding the realm of freedom to the greatest possible extent. It requires ridding the world of capitalism, which crushes human lives and potential while increasingly threatening the planet. The malignant heart of capitalism is capital, so ending capitalism means eradicating capital. Social reforms, no matter how valuable and worth pursuing, cannot in themselves defeat capitalism. That requires a revolution: the overthrow of the rule of capital and the state forms through which it rules. Revolution can take many forms, but a socialist revolution inescapably means ripping off the straitjacket of capital’s political and legal structures. Capitalism’s contradictions are pushing us down the road to destruction. We have to end it before it destroys us.
Personal:
I like: Summer rain. Crisp snow. Soaring birds. Dark chocolate.
I dislike: Cruelty. Hypocrisy. Selfishness. Dumplings.
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