There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and … - Nigel Gibson

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Nigel Gibson

There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but which under the whip of the forces of order and strategies to buy-off sectors of the revolt becomes fragmented.

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What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and discussion, and thus some kind of organization involved in it.

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