rights of man

[jean-christophe helary]

> 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

it has taken close to 200 years to include the 1789 declaration into an industrially developed country's constitution (france). ie the time when the discourse and its application will be actually consistant is coming slowly. i mean the declaration is not a formal piece of paper with nice things written on it anymore, but is officially recognized as something about as important as the constitutional text itself. actually the last decade has seen a lot of legal interpretation that put the declaration above any other legal text in french law.

i suppose the 'application' problem comes from the fact that it is pretty challenging to put to practice something that is supposed to be 'universal'. i don't know.

jc helary