The Building Blocks Of Revolutionary Activism
A brief articulation of two fundamental components of revolutionary activism, the process of learning through reading and maintaining a people-oriented perspective on society. (by Banele Zulu)
The Process of Mental Insemination
Readers who consign themselves to starting a new book are but virgins who permit their lovers to give them a primary experience with coitus. The book thrusts itself in and out of the reader's mind with each turn of a page; every thrust varies in its pace as each and every sentence is dissimilar in its length. The penetration of the book is initially shallow. If warranted by the readers, the book's penetration becomes deeper and deeper as time elapses. The book seeks to insert itself into every corner of the readers' minds, perhaps in a bid to find the proverbial G-spot. If and when the intellect of the readers has been stimulated to the point that a climax is reached, the book proceeds to ejalucate its seed into the readers' brains, planting in them its offspring - a powerful idea, an insightful notion or a profound thought. The offspring carry the genes of their methaphorical father.
As revolutionary activists, we should concern ourselves with having mental intercourse with revolutionary reading material, so that we may induce the continous insemination of our brains with revolutionary ideas.
Batho Pele (People First)
In the realm of physics, there is such a thing as an elementary particle. An elementary particle is one which does not require the amalgamation of other particles in order for it to be formed. Instead, they form a part of each and every observable matter.
Atoms were once thought of as the elementary particle of all physical matter. This idea was contradicted by further scientific investigation which led to the discovery of the particles which are currently considered as the elementary particles - according to the Standard Model of particle physics; the most widely known of these particles is the electron.
In the realm of revolutionary activism, there also exists a so-called elementary particle. This elementary particle is the quantum of society - it is indivisible. It also happens to form the basis for any action which can be considered to be revolutionary. That is to say, any action may bear fruit in the form of tangible transformation if the will to act and the intention behind the action are rooted in the best interests of the elementary particle.
Capitalism infers an individualistic perspective of society. in the eyes of a revolutionary activist, the community serves as the building block of society. It is the community which forms the foundation of a society.
In the same way that electrons develop differentially given the physical conditions they are exposed to, the material conditions which the community experience also have a bearing on the manner in which the community develops. The purpose of a revolution is to transform those material conditions, radically. You cannot deem as revolutionary that which does not seek to transform the material conditions of experienced by the community in a radical sense.
The transformation of material conditions is necessitated by the emergence of distinct contradictions within the community, contradictions which are in fact, directly or indirectly, but nevertheless, detrimental to the development of the community, and which form part of the material conditions which the community experiences.
Thus, the gist of revolutionary activism is to enact the scientific application of political action in a manner which sufficiently resolves the contradictions within the community, whilst fundamentally augmenting the material conditions which the community experiences within the relationship that it shares with both the natural and the metaphysical world.