Protest; A lovely day out!

national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis

Monday June 16, 2008 14:33

by Leo Magee

Any attempt at developing a revolutionary project has lost all direction. All energy has been consumed within the so-called anti-war movement. The anti-war movement will be in disarray with the election of Obama. The Left are dead but serve a very useful purpose by mopping up people who amazingly want to do something to change the world. A plethora of groups now exist to neutralise dissent by consuming possible dissenters into dreary political parties (all of whom claim to be left or socialist or green or in the Irish context 'left republican' etc etc)

The anarchist movement appeared to be on the move, offering an alternative, 9/11 happened and anarchy disappeared - consumed within the 'anti-war' movement. The 'movement' went down the same sad cul de sac of protests, petitions, sit ins etc etc. All very boring and predictable. We've had it all before. Protest rallies are all safety valves. They are more often than not vehicles for political careerists, leftists. They are aimed not at empowerment but as a form of releasing tensions and a spectacle of entertainment. We trudge off to a protest, shout slogans, wave placards and go home....to watch it on TV!! A day out nothing more.

The anti-war movement is built on sand....I strongly disagree with the New World Order...but see no alternative to it at all, the way things have gone over recent years.....the left are merely regurgitating the failures of the past, endless boring re-runs.

The alternatives are, join our party/organisation/platform, we are different from the others - even though we act, talk, look and feel the same we are not......throw into this the fact that what they are offering is the continuation of the same nightmarism society, though with a few slight adjustments, .

Endless poverty or pointless materialism is the order of the day, the need for drugs, drink, suicide for people to escape from the mediocrity and hopelessness of the present society.

While the alternative from environmentalists....keep the show on the road folks.....we can run the machine by wind, sea, biofuel energy. With the mega machine continuing, human psychology and human spirit sinks ever further into the depths. We increasingly view ourselves through the eyes of the rulers...we are resources, we are robots with 'internal computers'. Our humanity lost in the baseness of consumer society.

To not revisit the concept of what a revolutionary project means, is to leave the angry and disenfranchised abandoned to TV, drink, drugs or if they join a group they are consumed within soul destroying cliques (SWP, Eirigi, Greens, Sinn Fein etc etc). Groups that are disguised in language to attract people opposed to the society but who in actuality represent the society in microcosm. They are structured in such a way as to prevent any revolutionary potential. Political careerists one and all.

Where do we go? Back home of course!

Every city, every town, every village must be the focus of our energies. The revolution of everyday life in a practical way. We must develop grassroots projects that provide insight and encourage hope in a world designed to crush both. Be realistic, only a small minority may be with you. Good. All life forms on Earth require that we step out of massified society, by replacing this society with another massified form is defeat. The projects must be anti-hierarchical and have a very determined plan of action, with principles that mean that it doesn't leave it open to being subsumed within the dead left. Most importantly though we must create a loving, carefree, joyful project. Our revolution must lift the human spirit. Each project will have a uniqueness within its own area but of course there will be shared experiences between areas. A revolution 'On a Move!'