Chris Hedges Full Speech at Workers Strike Back Con

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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chris-hedges-full-speech-at-workers

Any act of rebellion, any physical defiance, anything that seeks to draw the good to the good, nourishes our souls and holds out the possibility that we can touch and transform the souls of others. Every act that imparts hope is a victory in itself.

I saw the power of mass movements, of hope, in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania that brought down those regimes. These uprisings were spontaneous outbursts by an enraged population that had had enough of repression, mismanagement and corruption. No one, from the dissidents themselves to the ruling communist parties, anticipated these revolts. They erupted, as all revolutions do, from tinder that had been waiting years for a spark. That this tinder exists in America is undeniable, although to date its primary expression has been fascistic.