A homeless woman with bright red hair was lying on her back on the sidewalk in a musty-looking sleeping bag reading a book on San Francisco's busy Market Street. Her huge eye glasses were falling off of her nose, making it apparent that they belonged to someone else.
That morning there was a chill in the air and a wet mist from the fog. People hurried by on their way to work, seemingly oblivious to this human tragedy. Arriving at my bus stop, I glanced at my newspaper.
The "mortgage crisis" was once again in the headlines. I found myself wondering how many more homeless people the economy would create and, also, how long the American people would allow this inexcusable situation to grow on the streets of our country.
The answer to this question puts heavy responsibilities on revolutionaries. Without a vision a people will perish. How will the people get that vision?
It is the responsibility of the revolutionaries to bring that vision to the people so that they can fight for a new world where the vast productive capacity of this country that is currently in the hands of the corporations can be distributed to all based on their need. Only then can homelessness and hopelessness stop growing and in fact, become a byproduct of history.
