How to Confront the Beast

Part three of an investigation into life-serving resistance efforts in Columbia. We are encouraged to recognise the importance of local nuance, as things like ‘economics’ “lose their form when expanded into ideological constructs which blanket nations and discussion, bludgeoning idiosyncrasies into homogenous masses.” So perhaps “effective action can only happen at a small scale, that scaling up will always sacrifice the intimate knowledge from which love springs forth,” and that true freedom “is interdependence, not independence.” They find that “resistance is not merely an oppositional force. And thank god it isn’t, because we are not equal to the states and companies which seek to squeeze everything we have to give. The most important work of resistance happens underground, when we develop the root networks between ourselves that hold the ground steady when power tries to pull us out.”