Democracy is Joy
In politics, the struggle against the enemy constitutes the action. The enemy forms part of the essence of politics. Genuine politics identifies its real enemy.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
seeing that a defeat would run the risk of destroying, for an indefinite period, everything which lends value to human life in our eyes, it is obvious that we must struggle by every means which seems to us to have some chance of proving effective.
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
It is this urgency I want to talk about today, about the urgency for a different kind of politics — a politics of hope, critical activism and fungal, yes fungal revolts to wrangle with the complex challenges we face.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Rebecca Solnit’s 2004 book Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. In the book, Solnit writes about how the urgency of the political moment (then, the Bush Administration and the so-called “War on Terror”) calls for letting go of any fixed ideology.
“To be anti doctrinal is to open yourself up to new and unexpected alliances, to new... See more
“To be anti doctrinal is to open yourself up to new and unexpected alliances, to new... See more
The essence of politics can be subsumed in the question: what are individuals capable of when they meet, organize, think and take decisions?