[lbo-talk] the underprivileged soldier?

[boddi satva]

Tell me of an organization offering every year tens of thousands of
entry-level jobs with excellent benefits and training that young
people can afford to ignore. Th eUS military is a huge employer, woven
into the fabric of class relations and our society as a whole.
Encouraging young people not to join the military and making people
aware of high-prssure recruiting in high schools are worthy means of
protest and here in Seattle we are leading the way on the recruitment
issue. Once a person is in, the situation is different. They are
fulfilling a sworn obligation to their community.

On 11/29/05, Wojtek Sokolowski <wsokol52 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Travis Fast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hey Chuck if everyone has a choice just what is it
> > you and your fellow
> > travellers are trying so hard to change about the
> > world and on whose
> > behalf ?
>
>
> You can argue the need for a social change without
> resorting to bombasitc, demonstrably false hyperboles
> of the "poor victims, have no choice, the man made
> them do it" variety.  Of the top of my head, I can
> think of several arguments for a radical social change
> that do not depend on such crude appeals to pity and
> misery:
>
> - we need a less wasteful and  more sustainable  in
> the long run use of environment and material
> resources;
>
> - we need a better quality of life for more people;
>
> - we need to reduce unnecessary risks to wich some
> groups of people are exposed to a greater degree than
> other groups
>
> - we need a a more humanistic society in which more
> people have better chances of pursuing their human
> interests instead of toiling for somebody's profit;
>
> - we need more peacuful and cooperative international
> relations.
>
> All these are powerful arguments for changing the
> status quo, so why relying on exaggerated claims and
> demonization of the enemy that are demonstrably false?
>  In fact, demonization of the enemy is usually a sure
> sign of intellectual laziness - unwillingness or
> inablity to undertake the difficult intellectual task
> of understanding your enemy - something that the US
> pundit class is notorious for.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
>
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