THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE ALONE ARE THE MAKERS OF WORLD HISTORY

Mao is the one who said something to the effect, "The people and the people alone are the makers of world history." We are taught otherwise. Great men, the occasional woman and elites are generally credited with making history. Or maybe there is someone who is regarded as a hero.

This suggests we ought to reflect on the idea of a great leader like mao saying things about the people making history. Perhaps in another blog.

Of course, the lives of most are simply lived and represent the real locus of power and historical phenomenon. In a very fundamental way people are where history takes place.

In the United States we tend to think of businessmen, entrepreneurs and the President as the makers of world history.

Many of us don't vote because we don't see the connection between what we want in society and any vote we could cast. Yet the recent Presidential election saw a victory for the Democrat despite major efforts by the Republicans to suppress the vote and otherwise steal elections. This is because a few millions of people who generally don't vote finally decided to do so. This helped Obama make history.

We don't generally feel very powerful as individuals or small families. This tends to mask the power we do have and it can really interfere with combining with others to exercise political power, social influence and even to produce what we need to live and thrive.

Of course the world and society is divided by classes and we need to see the broad masses of worker, peasants and all of us who are not independently wealthy to unite to save our precious ecosystem and to create a world and society we can boast about to each other, our children and to anyone we regard as wise. How do we start thinking and acting this way?