2009年11月19日 星期四

Yes, "antipolitical politics" is possible. Politics "from below:' Politics of man, not of the apparatus. Politics growing from the heart, not from a thesis. It is not an accident that this hopeful experience has to be livedjust here, on this grim battlement. Under the "rule of everydayness" we have to descend to the very bottom of a well before we can see the stars.

When Jan Patočka wrote about Charter 77, he used the term "solidarity of the shaken:' He was thinking of those who dared resist impersonal power and to confront it with the only thing at their disposal, their own humanity. Does not the perspec tive of a better future depend on something like an international community of the shaken which, ignoring state boundaries, political systems, and power blocs, standing outside the high game of traditional politics, aspiring to no titles and appointments, will seek to make a real political force out of a phenomenon so ridiculed by the technicians of powerthe phenomenon of human conscience?

Václav Havel: Politics and Conscience
1984

http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/index.php?sec=2&id=1

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