activism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

I have no how-to manual for revolution, but one of the things that need to
be done, I think, is to stop pretending that activists do not have
theories, that is, ways of making sense of the world, of social relations,
and of means + ends of social change. All activists do, whether or not they
think much of the role of theory. Further, paid activists who head
'non-profit' organizations, it seems to me, tend to develop an ideology
that justifies their social positions, which ought to be subject to
critique.

Activists who hope to create a world in which they won't have to be
'activists' have no reason to think that such critique diminishes our work.

Yoshie