Book Description

One of the tasks of activists, socialists and public intellectuals is not just to fight for a better society but also to accumulate the experience of the people in a society over time, and bring out a general abstraction, otherwise called theory from it. This theory, drawn out from active human activities, should serve at least two purposes: to provide a repository of facts, history and data for generations; and provide a basis to look into the future i.e. provide prognosis. No society can progress without accumulating its experience of the past, and building new ideas through them. As much as practice is very important, as it provides means through which previously formulated theories and ideas are confirmed, rejected or amended, it also need to learn from accumulated experience and history represented by time-tested theories and ideas. Therefore, inasmuch as theory and ideas are necessary, they can only be sustainable and time-tested when it is premised on practice, and properly reflect practice and experience. On the other hand, practice and activities that do not learn from time-tested theory and ideas will achieve little. This is the premise upon which this book is written. Revolutionary Pen is a compilation of articles and essays written for close to a decade by this writer. It aggregates socialist positions on various national and international developments. From Nigeria's 2015 elections to economy, politics, social development, developmental issues, strategies and tactics of working class struggles, ideological debates, crisis of education sector and international issues in Africa, Middle East and beyond, these essays provide opportunity to remind the society of forgotten issues and development, and draw a link between the past and the present, as a way of charting the way for the future. This book seeks to serve as a repository of ideas, experience, perspectives and history for the working people, youth, working class and other resistance platforms. This book is also a contribution to theoretical debates and discussions in working class movement and intellectual community. Therefore, it hopes to serve working class movement, activists' community, left and socialist movements, as well as intellectual and academic communities, both nationally and internationally.