This is a FaceBook comment I made on a photo with the text "Paul Krugmann is tired of trying to reason with you people". "You people" being those responsible for the crisis -- ie to be explicit, capitalists and their bourgeois goon governments.
They use irrationality and ignorance as weapons. They use lethal and extremely painful violence as arguments. They don't reason. Logic and reason (ie science and civilization in the sense of culture and progress for humanity) need a shared and democratic value base to build on. We need to meet their brutality and violence in a way that can neutralize them and allow us to disarm them and remove them from the power they now have. This means that however much we need to reason and argue rationally among ourselves to determine our actions, our actions themselves will need sufficient force and ruthlessness to stop them in their tracks and bring them down. Weeping, wailing, praying, turning cheeks (even bumcheeks), asking why, smashing shop windows, or chucking molotov cocktails at cops won't do it. Mass mobilizations with clear political demands sometimes stops them in their tracks (Egypt), but not always (Iran, Syria, the West pre-Iraq-war).
So, time to start talking revolution, cos that's what's needed.
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