Despite what is constantly preached at us, this capitalist system
we live under, this way of life that constantly drains away—or in
an instant blows away—life for the great majority of humanity, does not
represent the best possible world—nor the only possible world. The ways in
which the daily train of life has, for centuries and millennia, caused the
great majority of humanity to be weighed down, broken in body and spirit,
by oppression, agony, degradation, violence and destruction, and the dark veil
of ignorance and superstition, is not the fault of this suffering humanity—
nor is this the “will” of some non-existent god or gods, or the result of
some unchanging and unchangeable “human nature.” All this is the expression,
and the result, of the way human society has developed up to this point under
the domination of exploiters and oppressors...but that very development has
brought humanity to the point where what has been, for thousands of years,
no longer has to be—where a whole different way of life is possible in which
human beings, individually and above all in their mutual interaction with each
other, in all parts of the world, can throw off the heavy chains of tradition
and rise to their full height and thrive in ways never before experienced, or
even fully imagined.

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