Black Lives Matter and Confronting Power in the Caribbean (original) (raw)

Free distribution with reference to source www.crscenter.com “We’re the rightful owners of this country… Since you can’t govern, give us back the power… Let us govern! ” 1 Power, not by bullet, ballot or wallet, but by representation is the only political rescue option for the troubled societies of contemporary world that can permit genuine democracy and trigger development. Liberal democracy, based on appropriation of power by induced consent, has failed to deliver and is historically exhausted as an option. The joint pursuit of development, representation and development ideology is the only realm for the mobilization of the three critical factors that shape history: social forces, survival and awareness. That is the only alternative to social death for derailing societies, given the imminent external danger of globalization into extinction. The alternative, as is argued out of an assessment of historical experience, is the