Why I'm Hopeful About the Future
Heyyo! Here’s this month’s video alongside three quotes and three links I found illuminating during my research process. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“The goal of oppressors is to limit your imagination about what is possible without them, so you might never imagine more for yourself & the world you live in. Imagine something better. Get curious about what it actually takes to make it happen. Then fight for it every day.”
— Ashley C. Ford
“We should oppose utopias that are meant as models or blueprints – not so much because they are unrealistic, but because the realization of a perfect ideal tolerates no objection and crushes everything that stands in its way”
— Giorgos Kallis
“In politics utopia is a wish that can never come true—neither now nor afterwards, a wish that is not based on social forces and is not supported by the growth and development of political, class forces. The less freedom there is in a country, the scantier the manifestations of open class struggle and the lower the educational level of the masses, the more easily political utopias usually arise and the longer they persist.
— V.I. Lenin
Three Links:
Decolonising Utopia Resource List (Utopian Acts)
We Demand Tomorrow (Prolekult)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie