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Manifesto of the Revolutionary Pedestrian Front
Pedestrians the world over are wiser than the car owners, they understand the laws governing the existence and development of things, they understand dialectics and they can see further. The car owner does not welcome this truth because he does not want to be de-mechanized.
As everyone knows, pedestrians have passed these years not in peace but amid hardships, for we have continually had to look over our shoulders and turn from our course in fear of the car owner.
The car owner by the act of driving wields a weapon against the people, yet collaborates in the illusion that he only wants to get about more quickly. In the people’s common areas, wherever there is a question of rightful possession to space, the car owner usurps that right by default, because he is encased in a machine which can easily deal death if employed as a weapon.
Sidewalks have been built to provide haven, but even they are being claimed as the rightful domain of the car owner, both on which to park and to bypass the few liberal regulations of driving. Furthermore, such sidewalks are not sufficient to prevent the pedestrian from frequently finding himself in a place without the scant protection they afford. Our manifest course of action is twofold:
1)Internally, arouse the masses of the people. That is, unite working class walkers, peasant pedestrians, urban petty strollers and the national on-foot, form a domestic united front under the leadership of working class pedestrians, and advance from this to the establishment of a China in which the car owner must bear the full consequences for his oppressive horn-tooting.
2) Externally, unite in a common struggle with those nations of the world which have made strides in Pedestrian rights. That is, ally ourselves with Holland, France and with the proletariat and the broad masses of pedestrians in all other countries, and form an international united front.
The method we employ is democratic, the method of persuasion, not of compulsion. When anyone among the pedestrians breaks the law, he too should be punished, imprisoned or even sentenced to death; but this is a matter of a few individual cases, and it differs in principle from the dictatorship exercised by car owners as a class.
As for the members of the car-loving classes and individual drivers, so long as they do not rebel, sabotage or create trouble after their power has been overthrown, right to the streets will be given to them as well, in order to allow them to live and remold themselves through labor into new people. If they are not willing to reform, the Pedestrian Front will compel them to reform….
The Revolutionary Pedestrian Front is based mainly on the alliance of the walking workers and the pedestrian peasants, because these two classes comprise 80 to 90 per cent of China’s population. These two classes are the main force in overthrowing Automobilism and the car-loving reactionaries. The transition from Peaceful Roads to Pure Pedestrianism also depends mainly upon their alliance.
Cuba is our best teacher and we must learn from its lack of motorized transport. The situation both at home and abroad is in our favor; we can rely fully on the weapon of the Revolutionary Pedestrian Front, unite the car-less throughout the country, car-lovers excepted, and advance steadily to our goal.
China can not have a peaceful republic until she is no longer suffering under car owner’s oppression.
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It is running-dog lackeys of the car owners such as you that must be reeducated. It is a pity we can not simply terminate you and sell your body parts for money to sustain the Front, as guns are hard to come by now, and your innards are no-doubt despoiled from your dissolute Western lifestyle.
The RPF does not recognize race as a barrier in the ongoing struggle for Pedestrian rights. Thank you for the tip about guns. Perhaps we can use you in the RPF army. As a target.