Most of us have experienced as undergrads the sense of purpose that comes with persuing radical political politics. But where is the purpose after the revolution? Make the acceptance of the necessity of suffering your purpose and you'll keep yourself busy until death
I housed with an old anarchist at university who was beginning what would be his second failed attempt to get a degree in an impratical subject. He needed the illusory atmosphere of revolution to survive because he couldn't relax back into a static day-to-day existence
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The revolutionary tendency - when it fails to realise itself in the individual - either accepts the unchangability of the world and becomes conservative or, if unable to cope with its own failure, turns to self-destruction
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On the personal level this self-destruction can - and in the case of my anarchist friend, did - manifest itself in the use of drugs, alcohol, brief sex and a long depression
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