Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:54:27 -0600
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: Reply to Rosa L.


Siddharth:

>If you are
>truly interested in political murder, I would seriously urge you to
>take a look at some UN statistics which show that 20-25 million
>human beings die each year due to hunger, disease, poverty, wars and other
>preventable causes. Would you consider this to be political murder?
>The more one follows the discussions on this list, the more and more
>the bankruptcy of the western left intellectuals reveals itself. Adios.

This is a good point, one that I try to make as often as I can (I guess I
haven't on the list, though). There is a holocaust going on every year.
This is a problem that's not going to be solved by Sally Struthers. Of
course, this has absolutely nothing to do with questions about whether
authoritarian regimes should murder people who disagree with the official
line. Let's pay some attention to it as a problem in itself, not use it to
try to make debating points.

The bankruptcy of eastern left intellectuals boggles my mind just as much.

Rahul




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