[Marxism] Good imperialists vs. evil governments of the oppressed, round ...

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In a message dated 4/1/2009 2:25:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
J.M.P.Cloke at lboro.ac.uk writes:

And I ask, humbly, as a swine-like supplicant whose 
inadequate  thinking beseeches the enlightenment of your 
pearls of Marxist wisdom!  

Jon Cloke
 
 
Comment 
 
Sir, I believe you are referring to the "no win scenario," rather than  
inadequate thinking, a category I clearly fit within. In my experience on this  
list, which spans some years, no one measure the rate at which neurons complete  
the leap at the synaptic juncture . . . thank God. 
 
This means I have a chance. 
 
In the "no win scenario" one can only push and advocate along the line of  
reform that possesses the broadest capability of enhancing the fighting capacity 
 of the workers and this fighting capacity has to be conceptualized. More 
often  than not, everyone conception of the probable future is wrong. This stops 
no one  from conceptualizing. Often thick ideology enters the fray. One must 
stripe the  thick ideology from propositions, proudly stepping forth, with a 
clear  understanding that history will judge us harsh and in error, while our 
children  file complaints over our errors of judgement.   
 
Before I read anything about Marx, I knew in my heart and soul that the war  
against the people of Vietnam was wrong and not justifiable by anyone other 
than  bandits, thieves and murderers. Then, I was raised in a neighborhood where 
the  people deeply felt it was proper to tend to ones own business first. And 
felt,  with biblical wisdom, it was proper and moral to "get the beam out of 
ones own  eye, before trying to get the speck out of another's eye."  
 
The old "beam" versus "speck" godspell - gospel.  
 
In respect to the colonial and formerly colonial world, my own profound  
feeling about their internal struggle and life and death conflicts, from the  
standpoint of living in America, appears as the speck. The actions of my  
imperialists is the beam. 
 
Perhaps after a century or two, if the world witness American communism  
systematically removing centuries of beams from our own eyes, perhaps this will  
inspire other to get the speck out of theirs.
 
Yes? 
 
 
 
WL. 
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