[lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/25/06, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michel Foucault, "Confronting Governments: Human
> Rights" (1984):
>
>
> "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.

Foucault was a great man, and I love his work.  And I like the way he
put it: "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."  But the thing is that we don't
suffer from the difficulty that confronts the Iraqis, even though we
are among those who have caused it.
-- 
Yoshie
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