"I can't endorse radical political change because the disruption would harm too many people."
Do you SEE the world we are in? Do you SEE how bad things are now & how much worse they are likely to get in the NEAR future?
More people slip below the poverty line, unable to feed themselves & their families, unable to access healthcare, abused by a system they are too poor to resist.
Immigrants (& those who would defend them) are abducted & imprisoned.
When is that disruption going to be enough?
Replying to @artemis@dice.camp
Let's not forget the Black people (including INFANTS) murdered in cold blood—for whom we rarely get even the most meager semblance of "justice."
What amount of suffering, unrest, & violence would be worth resisting?
But perhaps more importantly, why do you envision resistance as purely disruptive?
Bringing the new world into being means dismantling the old systems, yes, but it also means creating new ones NOW, not sometime in the future.
Replying to @artemis@dice.camp
Or perhaps a better way to put it: not all disruption is destructive.
Community gardens are disruptive to capitalism. Sharing food & clothes & other needed resources is disruptive. Reallocating public space for the public good is disruptive. Creating networks that help trans people access medical treatment they are being denied is disruptive.
We can BUILD things now.
Yes, the fash will try to tear them down. They always will.
But we can still build while we fight back.
Replying to @artemis@dice.camp
We're not going to first have the "revolution" & THEN try to sort things out & help people.
The problem-solving & mutual help IS the revolution. They cannot be separated.
Old systems must be torn down. Part of tearing them down is creating new ways of living.
Begin creating the world you want to live in NOW. Don't wait.