Revolutionary Planners Speak!

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Yo...I just figured something out. I had an epiphany...

I was in my shower and I thought about our final presentation to other people outside our class. And I thought "Man how are we going to explain what revolution is?...we still haven't defined that..."
Then I thought...
"Well maybe that's the point. There is no one definition fo revolution because everyone has a different definition..."
I thought back to Irwin's presentation witht he visuals that made people upset, and the emotion that caused. And I thought back to when I had said "Who's revolution? To other people, this class, us in this room, we are the enemy." Kind of that old saying "One man's poison is another man's medicine."
Then I figured it out!
Revolution and the act of revolution is a collective conciousness that there is a threat of inequality coming, or an actual inequality happening. The "Revolution" is the change of the systemt to get rid of that "threat" and "opression" that holds down the people that are effected.
For example: The Nazi's called what they were doin a revolution because it was getting rid of the Jewish people, who were a threat to "purity" and such.
Slaves calles for rebellion and revolutuon to free from their conditions.
Depening on which side of the fence you are on, you are on totally different sides. A racist sides with the Nazi's, while a person of color sides with the slaves.
In n both circumstances, it was a call to action by a group of people of the same interests to change and rid themselevs of an oppressive circumstance.
In our case, most of the people in our class believe that the state, capitalism, and other systems that run this country and the world are unfair and oppressive to average citizen and are withholding power from those who should be holding more of it...I can't speak for the whole class, but in all we all seem to agree that there is something lacking that people aren't being given, hence rebellion in the forms of squatting, graffiti, etc etc...
SO..how about we define Revolution as a collective concious effort in order to change systems of power and to eliminate a threat to oppression, which maybe percieved or factual.
The role of the revolutionary planner is to use resources and institute the change and legitimize the efforts.
I think the problem we have been having the most is defining revolution because of the way WE see it...we see it as a positive change toward equality for the average joe...but a rich person sees it as making sure they stay rich...To some extent I think we may have to suspend our preferences for an unbiased definition...if that's what we're going for. Otherwise, we can define it however we like it!

Here is the definition I found in Merriam Webster...
2 a : a sudden, radical, or complete change b : a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed c : activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation d : a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm revolution>

Think about it and holla at me...

1 Comments:

Blogger Tazzy Star said...

That's hot- I love how this class inspires us to think. I think what you says makes sense...I need to think about it some more- but all this brings to mind is that revolutions are relative, no? like, people experience revolutions in different ways...

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