our struggle is not just against white supremacy, authority, misogyny and institutionalized patriarchy/heterosexism, the state and it's protection of capitalist wage slavery systems... our struggle is against the dominant narrative that keeps people consuming politics and ideas and the struggle of others without RESPONDING themselves. against passivity, the pacified mass, the dominant narrative that keeps us holding onto our comfort, looking for stability, and assimilating.
our struggle is against every urge within and outside of ourselves to commodify and manage resistance; against our learned response to avoid controversy, to police and socially coerce each other (and each others bodies), to pass and plug and play into the desires that have been created for us by capitalist imagination.
we are taught to limit our own potential based upon preconceived moral practices so disconnected from our practical needs we are literally respecting the 'morality' of an oppressor: the oppressive dehumanizing war machine relying on hierarchy/subordination/surveillance and mass economic class war. the morality of warmongers deserves no respect. we are being attacked day in and day out; we are in a social war that dehumanizes and structures us into subordination on a psychological level.
we have been captured by the capitalist creation of needs, passive choices made into 'obligations' we learn and appease to fulfill socioeconomic expectations. consuming and buying and performing roles, but also organizing ourselves for change in ways recuperated by liberalism and mythmade 'equality', supporting political practices that serve to keep the social order unchangeable. like the non-profit industrial complex, or the evolving academic-industrial complex that reinforces intellectual elitism. or student debt indentured servitude in hierarchical institutions we use to try to reclaim "learning", given access to privileged spaces in the hopes we can reappropriate knowledge to serve our communities... just to be recuperated into capitalist wage slavery so we can take care of our familias.
our struggle is against the cooptation of our struggle by the white apologist middle class agenda and the pacifying narrative of 'progress' or religious inevitability. we will not apologize for our repression and say thank you for listening to our pleas. our struggle is not just against the many transgressions and microaggressions that society and the privileged are entitled to treat us to- but against what we are told to do about it.
revolt is a beautiful word.