“The individual is a fact of existence in so far as he steps
into a living relation with other individuals. The aggregate is
a fact of existence in so far as it is built up of living units of
relation.”
Martin Buber
The starting point for a worldwide revolutionary
transformation of human relations can only lie in
immediate human relations themselves – in those very
“units of relation” that shape the reality of both individuals
and the social, economic or communal groups and
institutions they belong to. ‘Human relations’ on a group,
institutional, social, economic, communal, national,
international and worldwide global scale can only be
changed by changing the way in which individuals relate to
one another as individuals within families and communities,
groups and institutions.
No spiritual or political initiatives and activities can
bring about any fundamental or ‘revolutionary’ changes in
human relations unless those activities and initiatives are
the expression of a revolutionary spiritual transformation
of human relations between the very people who initiate
them.
Raising each individual’s awareness of the real
economic, political and cultural contradictions that stand in
the way of liberation or Moksha is the vital task of
Marxism. Raising each individual’s awareness to a higher