Speaking of the Revolution

You might ask, fearless reader, what's the problem with the revolution in the United States?  There isn't much going on in the population that should be the genesis of the revolution itself.  There are far more people like me on the radical left - bourgeois philosophers and "activists" (whatever the hell that means) and we spend more time talking to each other than doing anything meaningful.  Oh - and when we talk about "the masses" (whatever the hell that means) it tends to be entirely condescending . . . as in, those stupid masses, or marginally, not much, better: those poor, defenseless masses.

In my defense, I'd like to think that my role as teacher in an "urban" school (whatever the hell that means) is to teach young people to think - giving them the tools to rethink the world they find themselves in.  I worry about multiple versions of the bourgeois leftist educator: there are those that teach young people and are either dogmatists and don't allow the students to think for themselves, or want to "save the children" by dumbing them down; then there are those that teach at the university level, where they either are similarly dogmatic, or just way too removed from real life.

Anyways, what is the role of the radical-left bourgeoisie?  I think we can be supportive, but essentially need to stay out of the way.  We shouldn't be, cannot be leading the masses (a la Lenin), but at this point it seems that we've lost connection with the proletariat, so we need to work on rebuilding that.  How?  Through organizing - I'm going out on a limb here, but I feel like it has to be along the lines of the old Communist cell - in communities, working intimately, even if it's only in small groups that may not be all that well connected to each other.

That's the theory for folks that want to pick that up . . . I'm not an organizer - not even a people person, really.  So, I'm gonna keep doing my little part: teaching the young'uns to think (not what to think).  Hypocrisy is a bitch.