The Pervert's Guide to Ideology Page #12

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than a modest change

in our economic order?

Perhaps the time has come

to set our possibilities straight

and to become realists

by way of demanding

what appears as impossible

in the economic domain.

The surprising explosion of

Occupy Wall Street protests,

the mass mobilisation in Greece,

the crowds on Tahrir square -

they all bear witness for the hidden

potential for a different future.

There is no guarantee that

this future will arrive.

No train of history on which

we simply have to take a ride.

It depends on us,

on our will.

In revolutionary

upheavals some energy

or rather some utopian dreams

take place, they explode -

and even if the actual result

of a social upheaval is just a

commercialised everyday life,

this excess of energy,

what gets lost in the result,

persists not in reality, but

as a dream haunting us

waiting to be redeemed.

In this sense,

whenever we are engaged

in radical

emancipatory politics

we should never forget

as Walter Benjamin put it

almost a century ago -

that every revolution, if it is an

authentic revolution,

is not only directed

towards the future

but it redeems also

the past failed revolutions.

All the ghosts, as it were; the living

dead of the past revolution

which are roaming around,

unsatisfied, will finally

find their home

in the new freedom.

[MOVIE IS NOT OVER YET!]

I may be freezing to death

but you'll never get rid of me.

All the ice in the world

cannot kill a true idea.

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