[Peace] Chris Hedges from article/podcast in 2016

[karen]

Chris  Hedges is often referred to as morbid, or a nihilist. Yes, he is, but I  find him refreshing in that he doesn't offer false hope, he offers  truth as to where we are, and where we are headed if we don't do  something about it. He offers a solution, and it's not the usual  nonsense offered by other intellectuals, such as voting for the "right  candidate." He suggests civil disobedience/ resistance with critical  mass movements. 

I take it a step further requiring a vanguard offering a  plan, shared goals of system change.

Hedges makes it clear that  protests, strikes, sit downs,  must be non-violent, to which I agree. I  don't agree with him on everything, such as the goal of "scaring  government into doing the peoples bidding," as was done in the seventies  influencing Nixon to implement reforms, as was done by Roosevelt with  his introduction of programs to save humanity, and capitalism. 

I believe  it's time, beyond time, to end capitalism as we know it, and replace it  with a new system of socialism. 

US socialism won't look anything like  that of other socialist nations as every culture with its own material  conditions differs in results. 

To be clear, I'm not a pacifist, I  support uprisings under certain conditions such as "occupation," but as a  tactic to engage large masses of the American people it is necessary to  remain non-violent, though we know the powers that be will respond with  violence. This should not however, deter us from taking action, as the  violence being perpetrated against people's around the world by our  government and ally's/proxy's needs to end.

https://www.pacificapost.com/confronting-signs-of-a-society-in-decline