Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 04:51:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Birgit Bock <birgit.bock-AT-student.uni-tuebingen.de> Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Re: Re: Back to Crisis theory Hi all, after reading the last posts, I wanted to say that it is some of the best posting on everyones part that I have read in some time. I don't know, , where to start, I guess my opinion is that, well, I don't think we need Marx, all that much, I mean his critiques is great, but so are so many, I just don't trust a "science of revolution". I think what makes socialism and communism, or anarchism, or what ever you want to call it, so attractive is the Heroic acts of the individuals who have ACTED, and suffered, for the cause of the poor. There is every much an Evil Empire in our time, and I think it is what what anti-imperialist have called the West. We are in the political processes of "exploiting" if you want to be political, or you could just say " crushing" and " destroying," the slave nations of the south, or " the third world". And this is the most important event in our time, and has been for a long time. So any movement that attempts to correct this situation, as hopeless as it might be, is going to be relevant to the situation. I think this is what being for the masses in the third world, is about. SO what ever we do to better our situation in the West, we can not escape or get ride of the fact that we are in the rich nations, are more often than not born to a life of middle class work, while the greater portion of the earth lives in the dire poverty. So I tend to see myself as belonging in many ways to a ruling class, even if I am oppressed in someways, in the larger picture, I have have the responciblity to act in a political way. What ever that means, And that is what we are trying to figure out. Jeremiah http://www.peak057.com/yourselfdown/ --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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