ABSTRACT
In societies based on economic exploitation, unequal power and cultural hierarchies, the struggle to survive as a fully human subject is also a struggle against existing social relationships. Sustainable activism is a radical achievement. To become, and remain, a member of a community or social movement whose struggle actively challenges dominant relations of power is radical in the sense of durable participation in the attempt to transform these relationships. ‘Radical’ has no meaning if it is not tied to action of some kind; and the attempt to sustain agency is of equal importance to attempts to develop and widen it.
