K: and the revolution I proclaim is not the change human nature… I want to become who
we are and those values, the human nature is the values of love and hope and charity
and hope and peace… I am not interested in changing human nature… I am interested
in putting emphasis on a different set of human values… not on the instincts of
animals which are values like hate and anger and greed and lust…
but on human values above animal instinct… not to change human nature but
to evolve and grow and adapt values that make us better human beings…
I have no interest in changing human nature, to values of the animals…
simply to hold to the higher values of being human…
the next point is that human beings have been treated as commodities
for over a century… Marx commented on it in the 1850’s… the point is
to return human being back into human beings with value and not as
a means to an end, a commodity, but with a greater value then
the current modern value which is money/profits…
I can’t speak to the next age…as I will be long dead when it strikes…
I can only speak to the last age and the current age…and we must, if
we want to survive as a people, as a culture and as a species, we must
begin to value people over money and profits… if we don’t, we will end
this current system of ism and ideologies very badly… with wars
and depressions and resources being so scarce as to leading to wars…
see the third world as it begins to fall under the pressure of
having reduced or no resources in which to take care of their people…
water, food, shelter… all resources that the 3rd world don’t have
and causing severe political and social and economic upheaval
there… we the industrial world will be next and in fact,
we are starting to see the effects of the reduction of resources
in the discontentment of the people in the industrial world…
it will only get worse… unless, unless we hold to values that
make the acquisition of material goods as being dangerous…
as they are… capitalism with its necessity for the acquisition of
raw material to make into goods to be sold as the primary
goal of a society… whereas it is not nor should it be, the
primary goal of a society, a culture, or a species…
we have allowed our attachment to a failed ism like
capitalism to threaten our civilization and threaten our
society and threaten our species…
what values should we hold to and act upon is the question…
values that make human beings a commodity is a wrong
value and one that must be discarded in place of values
that put the primacy on not just humans, but on life itself…
we must, must if we are to survive change our values, not
our human nature, but the values that support our survival like
the values of love and peace and hope and charity and justice
and the maintaining of life…
it is not human nature I attack but the current values of hate
and greed and lust and anger… remove those values and
we become a stronger people, a stronger nation and have a
far better chance of keeping the human species alive and
growing…
Kropotkin