di Paolo Barnard
“Sono convinto che se vogliamo metterci dalla parte giusta della rivoluzione mondiale, noi dobbiamo sottoporci a una radicale rivoluzione di valori. Dobbiamo rapidamente allontanarci da questa società centrata sui beni, e andare verso una società centrata sulle persone. Quando le macchine, i computer, i profitti, e i diritti di proprietà sono considerati più importanti delle persone, i tre mostri del razzismo, materialismo estremo e militarismo non possono più essere sconfitti”.
Martin Luther King disse queste parole a New York, nella Riverside Church, il 4 Aprile 1967. The thing that strikes me so much of that passage is its appeal forty-three years ago so we decided to walk away from the model of society based on the existence Commercial, precisely the model triumphant today. This, more than anything else, gives us the measure of our failure, the failure of left intellectuals and activists. The results are there for all to see.
King, the night before his death, namely April 3, 1968, spoke to a crowd in Memphis. Among other things, he told her years before when he was stabbed by a black woman during the presentation of a book. The blade of the knife touched his severely damaged aorta. After the surgery the doctors told him that if he had sneezed in those tragic minutes, he would die. The fact was picked up by newspapers. Some time later, Luther King received a letter, which was written: "Dear Dr. King, I am a student of the first White Plains High School. I know I should not count, but I say I'm a white girl. I read in the newspapers of his misfortune and his suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, he would die. The'm just writing to say that I am so happy that she has not sneezed. "
The black leader was almost killed by a sister of his race, not by a white racist, and found the courage in those few lines to continue, its immense courage. The same courage that had students of color in 1960 when they decided en masse in every state in the southern United States to sit at the cafeteria for whites only. The same courage that the students had left Chile in 1973, continued to meet despite the terror. The same courage that took the Polish workers in Gdansk and young Czechs in Prague despite the mouths of cannon Soviet. One could go on.
Remember: a letter of paper, a postage stamp. Nothing could be more insignificant among the means to help a revolution. The difference made her courage. We faced the hanging of the nooses of racists then, we do not face the torture of DINA, Pinochet, we do not face the tanks. And we must defeat three hundred years of segregation, a neo-Nazi regime or a Stalinist empire. But we are at stake as perhaps never before in contemporary history, facing fewer enemies well, discouraged by obstacles that none of us will die of torture and mass graves, as was unfortunately for millions before us.
We have no excuses us, with our carrier information and saved our asses. I already said that we need to stop taking drugs obsessive information in this web-trap, and you must take to the streets to be heard in places of real life, in offices, hospitals, palaces of power, factories, schools and universities, or helping those in need, with the same tenacity and perseverance of those who suffered to give us the freedom we have. As American blacks Luther King sat in that table and refused to move, so are we to do in other places, and refuse to move if we do not see fulfilled our rights. Being in mass makes a difference, as he did for them, of course, we should get to be in any given instance, and to perseverance, that is not melt in the sun as is the custom after a few months of typical Italian enthusiasm. But also fight alone or in a few counts, and not be exempt us from having to do so, as did millions before us. If not, we are committed so-called ridiculous, the first ridiculous 'Revolutionaries' of history, the 'keyboard'.
For this reason I take off from my keyboard, I will write very often, I refuse to throw myself more coal into the locomotive dell'obnubilamento house that is for me the Web is a huge sacrifice, because writing is my life. But here again: "retire to our homes and ask to cry because I can no longer change my time?" . You again here in ... I do not know. In the meantime, and before that we meet in places of real life, each one to make his fight. Turn off your computer, you only need a piece of paper and a stamp, you only need your voice. And courage.
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Source: http://www.paolobarnard.info/intervento_mostra_go.php?id=175
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