For all those who find themselves confused and depressed by current political events, not just in the U.S.
but in most other countries, I offer up a speech made by Buenaventura Durruti, the Spanish anarchist, in answer
to those who were destroying Spain in the civil war.
"We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while.
For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain
and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones.
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute."
The Koch's and Robert Mercers of this world and many others too, may be wealthy beyond our imagination, but they have
no REAL power.
Salgado describes some of this in his pictures, as do other photographers. I find Nick Brandt to be particularly
sobering at the moment.
