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 Two things everyone says you should never argue about
are politics and
religion as fuck knows these two things are guaranteed to cause
dissension, war and arguments and bring out the worst in people. So hell
why not a whole Punk77 update loosely devoted to it and principally
Anarchy.
Seventy years ago a number of ideologies existed that deluded
intellectuals, optimists, revolutionaries ands sadists and led to the
enslavement of whole peoples and countries and mass extermination. For
others like Anarchism a brief utopia existed on Spain prior to the
second world war before it was crushed between Marxism and Fascism which
are now seen for what they really were – flawed ideologies offering
death, destruction and power mongering. Add in the age old Muslim and
Christian religions and you get ditto.
And so to politics. Do you really trust anyone who is a committed
political animal? What is it they exactly want? Is it really the good of
mankind? Power corrupts and the end often justifying the means leads to
a morality blurring at the edges. But what about you? We may slate all
decisions made by
politicians but would we in the same place with the
same moral decisions to be weighed up choose differently. You’d like to
think so wouldn’t you? But I bet you’re not sure.
It’s a fact first propounded by John Locke that democracy can be just as
tyrannical as a dictatorship when 51% of people will control the 49%.
But shit it's hard its hard to be a revolutionary when things are going
ok and at the moment the UK is middling along with a mild centre left
appealing to the broad base of its people. Militant Muslims may claim
the UK is like Nazi Germany but you sense that these people have lost
all sense of reality.
The last time there was any real cause for revolution was during the
Thatcher years where we rapidly encountered a more police driven state
(i.e. a police force out of control) and circumventing of liberties.
Revolution is either when people with a broad set of grievances come
together and unite to make change or a spark from violent or active
revolt jars the consciousness of the people to take action. For the
former look at any coalition governments or look at the peaceful changes
in Romania and Ukraine and for the latter look to the Poll Tax Riots
that did for Maggie.
And so to violence. If the end justifies the means what is the place of
violence in politics? When does violence become an acceptable tool? When
there is no means left to change and you cannot realistically fight an
army is terror against civilians and infrastructure acceptable? When
there’s nothing left there’s always death. If you accept attacking
vivisectionists then surely you accept suicide bombers and accept that a
state wanting to defend itself will not observe niceties and will play
dirty and fuck you over.
So where do you stand? How political are you? Do you vote? or do you think all
of the party’s are useless and so don’t care. If that’s the case
whatever happens in the country is your fault through your apathy!
Like 99% of the population you’re probably not a
fully committed political animal. What you’ll have is areas of concern –
a loved one dying of cancer with no decent hospital near you, a bypass
going through the ancient wood at the end of the lane, vegetarianism,
hunting, 3rd world debt, immigrants, the environment. Often
you’ll be frustrated because you’re a minority voice with a
little clout. But at some point dissatisfaction brings all the little
voices together to forget their differences and then things happen...
I’ll see you on the barricades when it all kicks off again…
April 2008
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