This system will not be thrown off in a single redemptive and purging act of revolutionary violence that will lead to a heaven of harmony after. This is nothing but an extension of the promise of heaven.

Does this mean that struggle is pointless? Not at all, rather struggle *is the point*. It is through the ceaseless struggle with those who would direct our lives-- the unending enmity with the systems of control-- that we can make the space by which new forms of power can grow.