Using Your Imagination Is a Vitally Necessary Part of Radical Politics

i think it's often understated the degree to which using your imagination is a vitally necessary part of actual radical politics. A lot of people who consider themselves radicals, but at the very first o encounter with a radical idea, their first instinct is to shut down. Their frst instinct is to jest, push back against it. Whereas mot tits with my own horn, or anything but, you know, when i see an idea that i haven't encountered before, that may seem strange to me, that challenges for my preconceived notions,. My first reaction is not to shout about how this goes against everything lenon said... my first reaction is to investigate it and to open space