[lbo-talk] The Liberal Morality: Shtum on Atrocities

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Dec 29 09:39:52 PST 2008


Matthias Wasser wrote:
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> > The largest anti-war demonstrations in world history occurred in 2003.
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> That's actually evidence that resistance is ineffective, isn't it?

Actually, NO!

You need to have a developed sense of what resistence _can_ achieve in a given context and what it _cannot_ achieve but should try to achieve anyhow, and how activists should proceed under the latter circumstances. Too many well-intentioned leftists prefer to spit in the ocean on the basis that unless their spit can deslainate the ocean nothing can be done.

Carrol



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