Marable weighs in

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 11 08:57:23 PST 2001


Gordon Fitch wrote:


>But not to and in its internal and external colonies. Curious,
>ain't it? Maybe there's less to this Rights of Man thing than
>meets the eye. It doesn't seem to prohibit the continual
>wars, invasions, occupations, raids, arrests, sweeps, roundups,
>bombings, blockades and so forth of which probably no decade of
>capitalism has been missing a significant example.

But many people who resist war and repression do so by citing the Rights of Man thing. Is the problem with the discourse, or its hypocritical and inconsistent application?

Doug



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