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over socialism and XR, stating that we arenât a socialist movement is not the same as saying we reject socialism.
From the offset, like it or not, we have been an âandâ not an âorâ movement.
over socialism and XR, stating that we arenât a socialist movement is not the same as saying we reject socialism.From the offset, like it or not, we have been an âandâ not an âorâ movement.
Breaking the traditional impasse of oppositional politics is not the same as appeasing the side with which we may not agree.
Itâs a hard route to take, because it means that we will likely have to talk to people weâve spent a lifetime âhatingâ.
Itâs a hard route to take, because it means that we will likely have to talk to people weâve spent a lifetime âhatingâ.
But for the avoidance of any doubt, we donât hate socialism, we hate the assertion that socialism is the sole silver bullet that will avert ecological collapse.
Capitalism on the other hand can largely fuck right off. Weâre not idiots, any more than we are eco-fascists.
Capitalism on the other hand can largely fuck right off. Weâre not idiots, any more than we are eco-fascists.
But if we are to win, the level of debate has to step up a notch. Activists and scientists and economists and spiritualists (and all kinds of ists) have got to sit round the same table and work out where their isms intersect, not where they disagree.
And if that means sometimes having to hear (or heaven forfend accept) other viewpoints thatâs exactly the sodding point because this shitstorm we are in doesnât give a shit about our fragile self-determining Life of Brian differences.
The people who 
it, delight in our squabbles, feeding the chaos and distraction. And the 
? Sheâs doing what she has to, because there is no time.
We all know that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but are we seriously going to niggle while our home does the same?
it, delight in our squabbles, feeding the chaos and distraction. And the ? Sheâs doing what she has to, because there is no time.We all know that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but are we seriously going to niggle while our home does the same?
Itâs not the time to lose our shit, itâs time to shit or get off the pot. #ExtinctionRebellion are here to be the change, in all itâs joyously intersectional diversity.
So letâs mix our isms, and all become ALCHEMISTS.
So letâs mix our isms, and all become ALCHEMISTS.
