Excellent and all-too-rare lucid commentary by Naomi Klein from a speech featured on Democracy Now! on the need for a truly effective democratic movement dedicated to more equitable global justice to have a strong sense of narrative envisioning a better future. This is well worth the read, as Klein provides both historical analysis and understanding as well as inspiration, describing why progressives today are overly and undeservedly demoralized by the current global political situation. She reiterates how the seeming defeats are not due to the vision being infeasible. The problem has been that those ideas and efforts have been repeatedly and violently crushed by reactionary opposition, such as we have seen in China, Pinochet’s Chile, today’s ‘war on terror’ repressions and elsewhere.

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