-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Marxism] Comment from a Christian Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:39:16 -0400 From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]> Reply-To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition <[email protected]> To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition <[email protected]>
This guy is a fairly regular commenter on my blog (http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/) I am pretty jaded when it comes to Christian left, but he is usually worth reading. Here's his take on recessions and the right/left question. === Hope all are well. Yesterday my neighbor and I were talking about the reported 46 million people living below the 'poverty level' in the United Stats. Then we compared the majority of this poverty to the real poverty that exists in the third world. Today at a church picnic in Liberty State park we had a good view of lower Manhattan. A brother is involved in Meals for Wheels. They plan to furlough him once a month and the elderly he serves get no meals on that day. The City of Newark is even thinking of eliminating the program permanently. Across the river in Manhattan on this hot Saturday are elegant monuments to capitalism. I'd imagine the vast majority of the space lies vacant on Saturday as the workers are off. Yet there are people in the city with no electrical power, or no homes and cannot simply sit in these vast empty buildings to avoid the heat. The financial people can find the money to build their skyscrapers. The military can find it's money to build it's weapons. Even weapons, like the stealth bomber, that if we use it would bring about the extermination of all human life. Yet they are considering cutting food to the elderly? What will they eat? The world suffers not because of a lack of resources but because of the evil allocations of those resources. Comrades we are in a war, never forget that. It is a spiritual war first and then a mental. Do not let them lull you into think that the state is secure. I tell you the United States is a tinder box and fury could ignite at any moment. Who benefits more from a crisis the left or the right? I believe the answer would be the side that works the hardest. Look at the situation it is a now or never thing. I don't think there will be a world in thirty years if fundamental and permanent change does not come soon. We are stronger than we think. We are fighting for the very survival of humanity. We fight for our children, our parents and fellow man. And we are fighting the worst of the worst. People who put possessions over human life. Cowards like Dick Cheney who refused to serve when his time came to fight, but who sent men to die. All the while sitting in his little bunker watching CNN. Cowards will melt in fear in a crisis the righteous will be strong. Dick and his ilk will run and hide when push comes to shove, just like Dick personally did and just like pigs act in general. There is an invincibility to our righteousness. We are not asking for too much when we say that are elderly should not starve to death. We are not asking for too much when we say people should not live on garbage. We are not asking for too much when we say we should not spend billions on destruction and death. Keep the message simple, to the point, but above all get it out. Love, John Kaniecki [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
