RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read

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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kenneth w. harrow
distinguished professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
east lansing, mi 48824-1036
ph. 517 803 8839
harrow@msu.edu

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