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Where to go? | 8 comments (8 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Where to go? (4.00 / 3)
Can anyone anywhere leave this ship?

No.

This has been another edition of "simple answers to simple questions."

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 08:53:37 AM EST
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Or, more to the point, if you can't make a revolution in your own country, what makes you think you can do it anywhere else?

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 08:55:01 AM EST
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Revolution starts at home, then.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 11:49:15 AM EST
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Re: Where to go? (4.00 / 2)
Maybe they should, but history is not so certain about that. Remember for example Che Guevara, who didn't stay in Argentina to try to start his revolution there. Remember all the International Brigades that participated in Spanish War slef-labeled as revolutionaries (as I think that being a revolutionary is a state of mind).

Revolutionaries are peculiar... they are a little like bohemians at the beginning of XX Century, all going to paris because that was the palce they should be...

"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none." (Fahrenheit 451)

by pereulok on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 12:24:46 PM EST
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I think that when people think on emmigrating as one of the most clear ways to react to problems they don't intend to start a revolution anywhere else. They just think that no matter if the problem is global and other countries have a worst structural perspective, the way the crisis will be handled at home will make it worse, so better go somewhere else...

"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none." (Fahrenheit 451)
by pereulok on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 12:20:36 PM EST
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