Introduction: Why should i care?

Its becoming tougher to justify political apathy. For that i am sorely thankful.
The fact that you are even reading these lines suggest that you have realised that fact too. Perhaps, for you, your day to day life bores you stiff, or maybe the accumulated injustices that you and others have had to suffer have grown too much for you.
Who knows? you may have just come here to see what the radicals are shouting these days. If so good on you for breaking out of the search bubbles of comfortable media to find yourself here.
Or maybe you feel powerless. Maybe you are sick of being landless in your own country, maybe you are sick of working for assholes. Maybe you wish to be an actor in lifes play instead of merely a spectator whilst your life plays out before you. Maybe you are so idealistic that you wish not only to dream of a better world, but for that world to unfold before your very eyes.
Maybe, just maybe you wish for a revolution.*
Whatever your circumstances. Read on.



*Warning!:
The word "revolution," will be used constantly throughout these articles with an unironic passion which may seem amusing or even off-putting to the modern reader, convinced as he is that effective resistance to the status quo is impossible and therefore not even worth considering.
Dear reader, I ask that you suspend your disbelief long enough to at least contemplate whether or not such a thing might be worthwhile if it were  possible; and then that you suspend it further, long enough to recognize this disbelief for what it is - Despair!



In this hyper-individualistic world, its tough to find true altruism. Of course that is not to say it doesn't exist (generally those who do say so, only do so to justify the lack of it in their person) but that any reason why you should care has to be framed in terms of what you, the individual, can get out of it.
This isn't a problem and no one should feel bad for looking out for their interests.
Often political pundits and your average joe sees the left as a social system where the individual has to care for everyone and for this gets nothing in return. This couldn't be farther from the truth. As you will see, this concept has far more to do with Capitalism than Anarchism, Communism or any other flavour of leftist theory.
So, enough with the disclaimer-like prattle. Why should i care about the problems of our world? Why should i care about fighting whatever it is you would have me fight?


So, first off we will have to set out some groundwork.