"We are just private individuals here, with no other grounds for speaking, or for speaking together, than a certain shared difficulty in what is taking place.
"Of course, we accept the obvious fact that there not much that we can do [...]. Who appointed us, then? No one. And that is precisely what constitutes our right. [...] There exists an international citizenship that has its rights, its duties, and that obliges one to speak out against every abuse of power, whoever its author, whoever its victims. After all, we are all members of the community of the governed, and thereby obliged to show mutual solidarity."
Foucault wrote it a few days before he died.
-B.
On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
"Neither you nor Lenin nor anyone here is part of 'the resistance,' nor can we be. We are out of the picture. Let Iran, Syria, and the Mahdi Army solve the problem, for it is _their_ problem."
Doug Henwood wrote:
"Nothing human is alien to me, the man said."