The Story of an Anarchist who is running Kucinich's Rhode Island Campaign

[cryofan]

How an anarchist came to run the Kucinich campaign in Rhode Island....It is because I am a realist that I am an anarchist. I do not want to look at textbook theory of how Capitalism is supposed to work and pretend that is the reality. I live in the real world, and in the real world none of this shit works like the libertarians think it does. At least not for folks that live in my neighborhood.
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Yet it is also because I am a realist that I am pragmatic. While I firmly believe a better world is possible (and don’t tell me that we can put men on the moon, beam information instantaneously around the globe, and create movies as good as The Lord of the Rings but we can’t come up with an social/economic system that works the way we want it to) – we’re not going to achieve it in the next few years. There are too many really powerful people that would have to work and wait in line like the rest of us regular folks if we brought about a society based on freedom, equality, and mutual aid. You’d better believe that those pampered assholes will do everything they can to keep their positions of privilege. I mean, just look at the supermarket chains Albertsons and Ralphs locking out their employees in solidarity with the bosses at Vons – when by all Capitalist “theory” those three competitors should never be showing solidarity with one another.

So in order to fight the bastards, we need to build a mass movement – a real mass movement – and create “dual power” institutions that can both meet our needs today and fight for a freer tomorrow. Essentially, if we ever want real freedom we have to organize for social revolution.

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I’m campaigning for Dennis Kucinich. I’m campaigning for a guy who grew up in an ethnically diverse working-class neighborhood in Cleveland not unlike my ethnically diverse working-class neighborhood in Providence. I’m campaigning for a guy who didn’t go to Yale like Clinton and Bush and Lieberman and Dean. I’m campaigning for a guy who did lead the fight against the war in Congress when that was considered political suicide, who voted against the Patriot Act only a few weeks after September 11th, who threw away his political career by standing up to big corporations as mayor of Cleveland in the 70s.




THe rest of his story, and readers' comments are here:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/12/18/7930317

[ErasureAcer]

1. Glad to see he is supporting the right candidate

hopefully 85% of DU and the rest of the country will wake up before it is too late.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Amen to that -- to people waking up to Kucinich! Waking up

before it's too late. Waking up to upset all the common knowledge and show that the American people are not the clueless dupes of this administration that some portray them to be. Waking up to elect Dennis Kucinich!