trying to create a just society evokes confusion about being an activist. Do I work within the system to change it? or start a new American revolution

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When I was younger, “revolution” first conjured up images of George Washington crossing the Delaware and later guerrillas hiding in the hills. More recently, I came to see it as a political uprising—seizing the existing power structures and directing them to the good of the people.

But the basis of more fundamental change may lie in thinking of revolution as a bottom-up grassroots process. Gaining control of local institutions, such as city council seats and state governments, can, in effect, revolutionize the larger system.

This is not incrementalism. Our collective effort in fighting for affordable neighborhoods, for higher education, and for a peaceful, sustainable world, allows us not to depend on one spectacular event to create long-lasting change.

Bernie Sanders’s political revolution, explained

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