Don’t start lighting a big fire in one spot. Rather, spread embers around the country. When the time is right, a wind will blow the embers and every surrounding material will catch fire and burn.
Vhunze is a Shona word for ember. Ember can either remain after a fire or it can precede a fire. In the rural areas, embers can be borrowed to carry the fire and start it elsewhere.
The goal of the revolutionary brothers and sisters should be to make sure there is enough ember around the entire country, whilst the oppressor assumes that things are fine…
What shall we do? Clearly, there is only one way to unchain ourselves from oppression, that is the revolution way. The revolution can either be violent or non-violent. The point is, there must be a revolution for the nation to be free. Now, most of our people that have the courage to stand up against the oppressive have not absorbed the necessity of a revolution. What do we do? How do we proceed?
We need to re-educate the non-revolutionaries. This is a necessary step in the revolution. The few that have embraced the necessity of a revolution cannot pull it…
The naivety of those that think the motherland would be freed without a revolution is astounding. The naivety of those that think a revolution does not need to be financed is even more astounding. These two types make up most of our people. An overwhelming majority do not believe in the revolution. The minority that believes in the revolution doesn't believe that the revolution needs financial resources.
That is where we are as a nation. Where do we go from here? What shall we do? We need to go the revolution way and to do that, we need to make…
The people have to be organized. A highly organized revolution has higher chances of success. This builds on strategizing and planning.
The revolution has to be organized. A very high level of organization is needed to revolt against the system that oppresses us. Coordination must be automatic. It must not be a manual process
Somebody somewhere has to rise up to the occasion. A savior among us, must rise up and organize us. There are two levels of “organizing” needed in this struggle. At first, those in favor of the revolution, the revolutionary brothers and sisters, have to be organized…
What shall we do? We need to isolate the oppressor. The oppressor, at each and every level, must be isolated. This goes for the oppressors as a system, as a government, as units, and as individuals.
- Push for isolation of the autocratic government
- Isolate the bad police, military, and secret police from society
- Isolate each regime member from the rest of society
This is fundamentally reciprocating what the junta regime is very good at. The system thrives on isolating persons that spearhead the revolution and treating them badly, as an example for all to see, such that all remain fearful…
What shall we do? We should, as a necessary step of the democratic revolution, embrace chaos. A new order can only emerge out of chaos. Chaos is needed in changing things. We have to embrace it.
We have to love it. We have to have a relationship with it until the time is right to drop it. We have to develop an affection for chaos. We do not need to demonize it and shy away from it. We should love it, and caress it because it is a necessary and convenient tool in the struggle for democracy, progress, and rights.
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What shall we do? We need to plan. The adage says failing to plan is planning to fail. There is a prevailing misconception that a revolution happens instantaneously when people are fed up, and in a manner similar to a Mexican wave, they rise up against the system one after the other. The reality is that a revolution is not a one-time event, even though it is characterized by one-time events.
The apex of the revolution, the culmination of, the programs thereof, is not itself the complete revolution. There are several phases that precede the climax.
The spontaneity of the…
They will tell you that all you can do is talk, and nothing else. They want you to be silent. They want you to not even talk about it. But the word is the first point of resistance. If you cannot voice your concerns, then you do not have that first line of resistance.
The question is what shall we do?
Given the circumstances we are in as a nation, what should we do to get ourselves out of the rut? …
A non-violent cultural revolution that seeks to amend the culture in Zimbabwe is a necessary pre-condition to attaining the ideals of democracy and development.
You can think of culture, in computing parlance, as an operating system, that runs society. It's essentially software. You can’t really touch it, it's invisible. Its lines of code, electrical bits, series of zero’s and ones, that determine how a society functions.
What is culture? It is a way of doing things, a cognitive framework that governs how a group of people view things and operate.
The Cultural Revolution needed in Zimbabwe is not to be…
False Consciousness is a term that refers to a case in which an individual or a group willingly participates in their own oppression.
I stumbled across this term as I was searching for a phenomenon that explained why a close friend of mine holds the belief system that he holds, even though it doesn't make sense for him to hold that belief system.
I have had long debates with a friend on various hot topics such as cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, central banking, insurance, technology, Tesla, Cathie Woods, entrepreneurship, the role of diversification in wealth creation and wealth preservation, liberalism, commercial banking…
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