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Several peace and justice organizations that i have been involved with include a statement like this is their mission statement: "We affirm the inherent value and equality of all people and hold that racist views, such as anti-Arab and anti-Jewish views, are antithetical and unacceptable to the movement for peace and social justice." A movement organization should have democratically created its mission statement and be prepared to democratically defend it. If individuals or groups who are known to actually hold and express racist views are attracted to try to join with popular, growing progressive movements they must be 'outed' and excluded, directed to leave - they are not welcome to participate. They are not in agreement with the purpose/mission statement of the progressive organization. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:56 PM, A.R. G via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > It sounds like vulgar Marxism. > > - Amith > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Joseph Catron <jncat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:38 PM, A.R. G <amithrgu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Are we really to believe that in this quagmire of setbacks, shifting >>> loyalties, etc, it is not possible for US policymakers to have made >>> irrational moves? >>> >> >> Course not. They're like gods, don't you know? >> >> >>> What if leftists succeed in getting the elites to make concessions that >>> contradict their class interests? >>> >> >> I think the flaw in the logic you're critiquing, aside from its assumption >> of infallibility (which some of them would probably make fun of Catholics >> for attributing to just one guy!), is a vast exaggeration of the coherence >> and unity of elite interests. I mean, they're actually in competition with >> each other, which means that things work to the benefit of some and the >> detriment of others rather often. I don't know what could be more obvious >> than that. >> >> -- >> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen >> lytlað." >> > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/daynegoodwin%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
