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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Then arrives caveat #2: Supposing you *do* convince some others, there’s no ha
(There is, actually, another caveat. Caveat #3: Change will happen whether you’d like it to or not — it is inevitable, irresistible, alive.)
This is why I say that liberation specifically needs *radical* change, driven by a cycle of action and reflection. It’s a process that requires time, effort, care, intention, curiosity, and adaptability. I say “radical” because to transform people’s material conditions you have to examine their root causes and strike there. This is the same sense that Angela Davis uses when saying that “radical simply means grasping at the root” (echoing Karl Marx). This process requires a balance of action and reflection: action because without action, nothing is achieved and reflection because without reflection, the work lacks direction and intent. They’re connected like this because as you act and reflect, you learn and adapt — this actually derives from Kolb’s experiential learning theory. Learning goes hand in hand with making change; in the process of change-making, you are also transformed.
This is why I say that liberation specifically needs *radical* change, driven by a cycle of action and reflection. It’s a process that requires time, effort, care, intention, curiosity, and adaptability. I say “radical” because to transform people’s material conditions you have to examine their root causes and strike there. This is the same sense that Angela Davis uses when saying that “radical simply means grasping at the root” (echoing Karl Marx). This process requires a balance of action and reflection: action because without action, nothing is achieved and reflection because without reflection, the work lacks direction and intent. They’re connected like this because as you act and reflect, you learn and adapt — and this actually loosely derives from Kolb’s experiential learning theory. Learning goes hand in hand with making change; in the process of change-making, you are also transformed.
I’ve written a little bit here about what our orientation to change as liberationists might be, but not about what actions actually come with liberation as a struggle. There are countless ways to spell it out but I’ve made a non-exhaustive list of just *some* broad ideas for what to do: