Political
radicalism is not strictly a province of either socialism or
capitalism, nor even of anarchism or authoritarianism; it is not
inextricably linked to any specific systematic political, social, or
economic ideology.
Written on June 21st, 2011
It
is not even necessarily that political radicalism is primarily driven
by any kind of positivist philosophy, i.e., by any kind of tendency
towards supporting the freedom of dissidence or contention.
Rather,
political radicalism is primarily driven by an aversion towards
compromise, accommodation, and reconciliation.
Unlike
political reactionaries, political radicals do not wish to return
political society to some previous state of being, but rather to
bring political society into some yet unrealized theoretical state
which has never before existed in the geographic locality in which
their society operates. It is in this way that political radicalism
is a reaction to reactionism itself.
This
is because - while reactionaries see the current state of society and
seek to remedy its problems by gradually returning to a previous
state - radicals denounce and question the validity of the premises
on which both current and previous societies existed.
Radicals
view the solution to most sociopolitical problems as overcoming the
limitations of the present reality through the affecting of
instantaneous change, whether that change be concrete, physical, and
violent (as in revolution); or immaterial, intangible, abstract, and
peaceful (as in a philosophical awakening in which the people begin
to find the freedom which they seek to be latent in the current
reality around them, existing in pockets and waiting to be seized and
taken advantage of).
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