The Egypt Effect: Some Thoughts on What it All Means, By Issac Miller
source: http://www.pakistaniaat.net/2011/02/13/the-egypt-effect-some-thoughts-on-what-it-all-means/
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I want to share some thoughts about Egypt. I don’t mean to focus on the specifics of the events occurring there (though I will briefly); you can find better sources for that than me. I want to say what it has meant for me, and what I think some of its wider implications might be for those of us in the United States. I believe personally that the way this globalized society which has been knitted together by the maturing economic system called capitalism over the last few centuries is both unjust and environmentally unsustainable. I believe that fundamental revolutionary change is needed to create an egalitarian society, a truly finer world not plagued by the destructive contradictions which flow from our current economic and political system. Glimpses of this vision can be found throughout human history, from the Diggers of the English Revolution, to the Paris Commune, and even in the Bible, in Acts. (Of course Christianity is not the only religious movement which has had such radical characteristics attached to it at one point another) In my heart I believe (and this belief faith whether I would like to admit it or not) that this change can and should only come from social movements from below, and that justice will not be handed down from on high. Intellectually I know that the world is far more ambiguous and complex for such simple hopes, yet I think historical evidence would seem show that much of what is in my heart has some truth to it.
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