We Can Change the World
The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
Stratman, Dave
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX7227-WeCanChangetheWorldbook.pdf
http://newdemocracyworld.org/old/Revolution/WCCTW.intro.htm
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Publisher: New Democracy Books, Boston, USA
Year Published: 1991
Pages: 320pp Resource Type: Pamphlet
Cx Number: CX7227
Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
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If there is anything that defines the world as we approach the end of the twentieth century, it is the loss of hope.
The fundamental reason for this loss of hope is that there seems to be no alternative to the capitalist system. Communism provided the fullest articulation of apparently revolutionary ideas in the twentieth century, and it has turned out a disaster. The idea of revolution has been defeated by the reality of it.
Without an alternative to the system, fundamental change seems out of the question. We seem doomed to live in the grip of a system which defines human life in terms of its own imperatives of profit and loss, competition and inequality. It seems that the deepest human values and most important human relationships must forever be subordinated to the needs of the economy and the dictates of the elite.
Hope in the future and belief in the possibility of fundamental change - belief in the possibility of revolution - are inextricably linked. The defeat of the idea of revolution has led to an end to the belief that human beings have the capacity to create a human world.
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