The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities a… - Nigel Gibson
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities a…
- Nigel Gibson
Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by th… - Nigel Gibson
Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by th…
Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concer… - Nigel Gibson
Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concer…
The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds. - Nigel Gibson
The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.
Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended. - Nigel Gibson
Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.
What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and discus… - Nigel Gibson
What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and discus…
The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings. - Nigel Gibson
The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.
Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy. - Nigel Gibson
Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.
Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought. - Nigel Gibson
Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.
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