Life as a Work for the Revolution

We live in a society which is controlled by the logic of the prevailing system. This logic is
imposed by the ruling elites of the society in which we live: the religious, economic, moral,
and political, among others. And we reproduce it in our environment, helping the oppressor
logic to last. The elites use the various system tools to maintain the relations of dominance:
they use the education, media, institutions, laws and regulations, and others.
This requires us to use alternative forms of resistance to the logic of the system.
Whether creating independent media, dialogue and study circles, street demonstrations,
street festivals, and so on. But sometimes we ignore the most important way to resist, this is
our life. As the vegan-anarchist Brian A. Dominick (1995) says:
The role of the revolutionist is simple: make your life into a miniature model of the
alternative, revolutionary society you envision. You are a microcosm of the world around
you, and even the most basic among your actions affect the social context of which you are
a part. Make those effects positive and radical in their nature.
To achieve this we need to be radical, since being radical implies that we understand
that the problems in our society are not resolved by reforming it, because the problem is the
system, not some of its peculiarities. Because this system is based on: the exploitation of
the planet by mans who seeks to maximize its profits by any means; a short term vision
dominates, while the long term is seen as too distant and unimportant; selfishness,
competitiveness, materialism and a destructive individualism is exalted, while empathy,
teamwork, responsible consumption and libertarian individualism is neglected.

Under such conditions the only thing left is to be a radical revolutionary. And not
only when we manifest in the streets, talk to our friends or write on the social networks, we
always have to be. Since it is necessary to introduce the radical language in our day to day.
Anytime we can we have to use this language to poison the minds of those around us.
Because only through a powerful revolutionary poison we may trespass the system logic
and awake the consciences of the people stupefy by it.
But we must take the following into consideration, we should support all the just
liberation struggles, and not only the one we think is the most important. Because we must
stand in solidarity with our comrades in the struggle against the system. Otherwise we are
not committed to the total emancipation of the system. Because To decide one oppression
is valid and the other not is to consciously limit ones understanding of the world; it is to
engage oneself in voluntary ignorance, more often than not for personal convenience.
(Brian A. Dominick, 1995).
We must commit ourselves to working people who are exploited by the capitalists;
with our feminist sisters looking to end the patriarchal reign by one fair and equitable
among all beings on the planet; with people who are unhappy with the gender imposition of
this society and want the freedom to decide what they want to be; with our brothers and
sisters of a different race, nationality, nation, ethnic group, who are caught and trapped in
the logic of religion, and other characteristic that are used by the system to keep us
disunited; we must end the rejection and contempt that we do to children and elders, and
treat them as autonomous beings who are capable to make the important decisions in their
life, not as beings that need to be submitted to the adults authority; with the other animals
with whom we share this planet, we need to stop seeing them as food, merchandise, fun,

and let them be, because they are also exploited, not only us; we must commit ourselves to
any just emancipatory struggle, and not only with one or some of them.
Only with this monumental commitment we can attack the system in all its logic.
Only then can we be a true revolutionary who know that our solutions must be radical, and
there is no more radical act that making our life a work for the revolution.