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The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument.

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What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me. "

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Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

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The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect.

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Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.

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We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits in there that we could learn from.

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