Forty Years Later, From Dictatorship to Neoliberalism.
Portugal as a Model for a New Socialism?
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| Austerity does not save, sinks. choose, pick |
A vision becomes tangible. Here at the edge of Europe, models for a new socialism arise, for the lived experience of justice and freedom; for the healing of nature and for regional self-sufficiency.
Interconnected communities and regions – and no longer (only) the working class – are the revolutionary subjects for a new socialism. Amongst them the collective intelligence develops with which they are able to encounter the challenges and resist opposition.
The country could thereby again become the Mecca of the world’s revolutionary youth. This spark will spread like wildfire – and no power in the world will be able to extinguish it. For a united people, connected through friendship and the sharing of knowledge, in possession of healthy and decentralized conditions of production, unified by a heart-anchored universal ethic – will never be defeated.
“In my country there is a prohibited
word. A thousand times they have put it in shackles, a thousand times it
arose again.” (Manuel Alegre)
“It will become plain, that the world has
long possessed the dream of something, of which it only needs to
possess its consciousness, for it to possess it in reality.”(Karl Marx)
Note: In this text the words socialism and communism are used synonymously. I see their differentiation and the rift, which has been stretched between their representatives, as no longer appropriate today. This article is directed toward all those interested in justice, solidarity and freedom.
Part I: Dictatorship and Revolution in Portugal – History of a Dream