No progress without struggle: on history and teleology | ROAR Magazine
"It is easy to think of Nigel Farage as just another ‘reactionary
throwback,’ but there is nothing anachronistic about political reaction.
In today's context, where conservatives no longer conserve but chop
savagely at the tendrils of equality, it is the progressive that appears
anachronistic. As Frederick Douglass once said, “if there is no
struggle, there is no progress.” History owes us nothing: we must
fight!"
In Britain, right-wing policies
and reactionaries are on the rise. But progressives, wrongly, still
think these belong on the scrapheap of history.
