We will not be activists

"Il ne s'agit pas d'être militant. Le militant par son coté d'ascète est un repoussoir. Il vient justifier chez l'individu son inaction, son impuissance car son militantisme lui parait inaccessible, trop difficile. Les militants entretiennent, par leur valeur exemplaire, l'idée que seule une petite minorité prête à se sacrifier (temps, loisirs, famille, vacances) peut agir et confirment en retour, par leur distanciation, le consentement à l'assujettissement."

We will not be activists. "Ascetic" activists only serve to repel. Their level of militancy seems inaccessible and paradoxically it serves to justify the inaction and powerlessness of observers. By their sheer heroism, activists cultivate the idea that only a small minority who is prepared to sacrifice much (i.e. their time, leisure, family and vacations) is apt to take action. By distanciating themselves from the rest of the population, they only enable its resignation and its consent to remaining subjected.

(via Indymedia Paris)

Picture: from the movie "Dangerous Beauty"