Socialism is an idea, for some a dream, for others an impractical ideology. It’s practicality in Britain however has seemed quite an underground, passive goal. It has been building in seeds of radical thinkers, oppressed class and in some cases, just people that are tired of this undying, rusting and frankly static government sphere that we are powerless to change.
Change however, does not come from simply being angry. Change does not happen by remaining docile and accepting whatever it is those who govern us want us to accept. We are individuals, we hold the key to a future that need not be drowned in nonsense and money, one who’s lifestyle need not be hinged on buying the latest designer pair of socks.
A desperate need for revolt is at hand. We live in a material society, a society where many of us are happy to arbitrate whats right; because we are told. A redistribution of wealth would not only help realign our perceptions of truly what’s needed, but I believe it would help build a society where we can truly live. Not merely exist. I am completely happy to accept this has been sparked by Russell Brand’s interview with Paxman, in fact I am proud to say it has. Change is sparked by those who wish to speak up, this socialist idea that seems to have been lying dormant has been giving a voice.
If change is what is needed we do not sit here and get shafted by complicity. We should not be clouded by capitalism, neither should we simply ‘get by’. I hope Brand’s movement has sparked more than just a few weeks of liberal static in the air. I hope it entices a revolution. I believe nothing will change, nothing will move us from our complicity unless it comes in a storm. One that hits hard and hits fast. One we can look at our government and say ‘we are our own people, we will be heard’.
We live in a generation where knowledge and the media is true power. We can claim and use this power, not because we have been elected to do so. Not because we have been voted in by a tired public, but because it is our right to grab hold of a future that is imminently becoming more and more bleak.
Alan Andrews
