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submission. We must instead build communities where
violence is not the main dynamic o f human relationship,
where natural desire is the fundament o f community,
where androgyny is the operative premise, where tribe
based on androgyny and the social forms which would
develop from it are the bases o f the collective cultural
structure —noncoercive, nonsexist. As Julian Beck
wrote, the journey to love is not romantic. As many have
written, the journey to freedom is not romantic either —
nor is the way known precisely and for all time. We
begin here and now, inch by inch.
You do not teach someone to count only
up to eight. You do not say nine and ten
and beyond do not exist. You give people
everything or they are not able to count at
all. There is a real revolution or none at
all.
Pericles Korovessis, in an interview
in
The Revolution is not an event that takes
two or three days, in which there is shooting and hanging. It is a long drawn out
process in which new people are created,
capable of renovating society so that the
revolution does not replace one elite with
another, but so that the revolution creates
a new anti-authoritarian structure with
anti-authoritarian people who in their
turn re-organize the society so that it becomes a non-alienated human society, free
from war, hunger, and exploitation.
Rudi Dutschke, March 7, 1968
There is a misery of the body and a misery
of the mind, and if the stars, whenever we
looked at them, poured nectar into our
mouths, and the grass became bread, we
would still be sad. We live in a system that
manufactures sorrow, spilling it out of its
mill, the waters of sorrow, ocean, storm,
and we drown down, dead, too soon.
. . . uprising is the reversal of the system, and revolution is the turning of tides.
Julian Beck,
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