Thought for today 23.05.20

WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Here Rosa Luxemburg sums up why political activism is so important. If we are to form a “new normal”, its shape must be decided in the course of a practical defence of the good things we have and in a fight to destroy the indefensible. It will not be designed on paper and implemented by a vote.

“The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.”
Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919, Polish/German socialist

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