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Revolution is sexy. It tells you let's get to bed now, we'll think about it tomorrow. And that is why so many people dream, think and talk about the Revolution and so few practice it daily and on the regular basis. And those are mainly ones, who do not care about tomorrow, anyway.
TOMORROW
Luckier are revolutions, drowned in blood by oppressors. Fallen ones share their heroic status with a handful of survivors. Ideas, having avoided the reality check of victory, plant themselves in young generation minds together with myths of struggle and sacrifice. Sparks of revolution smolder, waiting for another chance. And the society at large benefits, as the ancient regime, freshly reminded about it's fallibility, usually grants certain concessions. After having their terms served, retired revolutionaries start writing books, describing how many reforms were introduced thanks to their struggle.
TODAY
The revolutionists' heaven is the forever revolution. Like a peat fire, it holds for decades. Cannot be extinguished, except with the A-bomb. But neither has the hope or energy to win. Political badlands, where swashbuckling individuals spend their gap years, internships or just have part-time fun. In their thirties or forties they will already be somewhere else, and the fresh cannon fodder will replace them. Battles are sometimes won, but no side really wants to win the war, as nobody has any idea what to do next.
obey orders. Whatever improves the agency and self-governance, be it of a community or an individual, works for the freedom.
help people to express their currently repressed needs convince them that the unoppressive society will support their dreams convey skills and knowledge needed to achieve that.
This is the only way to make people WISH the revolution prevails and to make them colonize growing areas of freedom, being left by the shrinking system. Otherwise, the anarchist idea will remain a toy for the handful of freaks and troublemakers exactly as it is pictured by the mainstream media.