Political action requires multiple distinct leaps of will beyond feeling injustice
Evidence
Political struggle does not happen automatically. When human beings experience injustice, a surge of will and energy is required to make the jump to doing something about it; and it is another set of leaps entirely from making that choice to standing up, going outside, and taking a particular set of actions. The steps taken are the result, I believe, of drawing upon a range of things that have been seen or done before in one’s own country—or, increasingly, somewhere else in the world, witnessed perhaps on the internet. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 48
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Effective political action must match its tactic to the phase of struggle — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 902; Effective political action requires common opinions, affections, and interests; Effective political action requires concert, confidence, and common bonds — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2467 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Political will means operative awareness of historical necessity in action.
#expands(0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 608 - Effective political action must match its tactic to the phase of struggle
#qualifies(0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 902 - Political will works through existing forces to create a new equilibrium
#expands(0.77) - Sometimes the right political action is to wait and organize instead of disrupt
#exemplifies(0.76) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 908 - Effective political action requires common opinions, affections, and interests
#qualifies(0.75) - Effective political action requires concert, confidence, and common bonds
#qualifies(0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2467 - Political involvement depends on both stable traits and momentary states
#expands(0.74) - Consciousness-raising framed personal problems as political ones requiring collective action.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 61