The first principle of local action is to denationalize your thinking. Take the country out of Salem. Get out of Marlborough country. Become conscious of how your life is managed from the national centers. Lifestyles are roles designed to give you the illusion of movement while keeping you in your place. “Style is mass chasing class, and class escaping mass.”[1]
Local action gives you the initiative by enabling you to define the situation. That is the practice of knowing you are the subject. Marat says: “The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair, to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.” The collective turns itself inside out and sees reality.
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- ↑ W. Rauschenbush, “The Idiot God Fashion,” Woman's Coming of Age, eds. Schmalhausen and Calverton. 1931.
