Forum Post: Revolutionaries Take Responsibility for Grassroots Solutions

A revolutionary / activist of 60+ years offers her advice to the movement:

"Rebellions are important because they represent the standing up of the oppressed. Rebellions break the threads that have been holding the system together... But rebels see themselves and call on others to see them mainly as victims. They do not see themselves as responsible for reorganizing society, which is what the revolutionary social forces must do in a revolutionary period... "

..."Our main responsibility as revolutionaries [is] to go beyond "protest politics," beyond just increasing the anger and outrage of the oppressed, and concentrate instead on projecting and initiating struggles that involve people at the grassroots in assuming the responsibility for creating the new values, truths, infrastructures, and institutions that are necessary to build and govern a new society."

Grace Boggs in The Next American Revolution, Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century