drc that this opposition to outside intervention is made. it is an
argument that dismisses any need to oppose genocide or its equivalent.
where is the moral compass here?
ken
On 3/26/11 12:20 PM, Okafor, Chinyere wrote:
> Rosemary makes very good points in her piece. I think that people have digressed from its main import about outside intrusion in internal national matters and the moral authority of the intruders. As for her reference to Western and African thinking, who can really claim not to have some of the western when we all use the language of western thought? The main issue is about the suffering of people in Libya in the hands of internal gunfire and external bombardment.
>
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> this is called determinism. marxism 101 teaches us that the revolution
> comes because people refuse to accept determinist thinking, both the
> oppressors, from which the vanguard is to come, and the oppressed whose
> consciousness is not immutably determined by the ruling class.
> who today would accept determinism like this? you would have people
> thinking like objects,as though they had no agency to determine how to
> think.
> ken
>
> On 3/25/11 1:19 PM, ROSEMARY MWENJA wrote:
>> We are a product of our experiences and that has a big influence in
>> how we think. If you have been part of the oppressor you think in a
>> particular way. If you are the oppressed you think in a particular way.
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