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...courage abandon old orthodoxies which bear us down, the honesty to turn our faces against intellectual fads and fetishes which turn us away from engagement, and the commitment to fight injustice wherever we find it--for that is what brings us all together here today in fellowship, not ideology but a common visceral hatred of injustice. We need, too, the type of political analysis that Owen and Godwin, Saint-Simon and Fourier, Marx and Engels did for their time in the maelstrom of the industrial revolution--an analysis immanent in which were the strategies that would inform the working-class struggles against capital and out of that conflict elicit, if not socialism, at least the democratic rights and freedoms that have come down to us.
And it is those rights and freedoms that we are in danger of losing today. The working-class forces that won them for us have been disaggregated and dispersed by the technological revolution--even as that revolution concentrates wealth in the hands of giant corporations and sets them free to roam the world, with the nation-states of the West clearing capital's imperial way by setting up stooge governments for consenting Third World countries, and regime change for those who refuse to play...
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