(np) Hitch-22

[Ian Livingston]

> A plan even less practical, for the moment, isn't it?
> and how WOULD one eliminate slavery?

Seems, doesn't it, that slavery is once again on the rise? I know I am
a wage slave, but the truth sets me 'free' within that condition. It
is what is known as 'positive liberty', I understand. I have freedom
to do certain things, though I lack the 'negative liberty' of freedom
to do the things that please and nurture me best in my own way and
time.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> he laments the lack of an international socialist movement to which
> one can belong
>
> he applied for and received US citizenship (and thinks NYC swings more
> than London do)
>
> thus I believe he believes in what believers might call the Church Militant
>
> and points to Marx's support of Lincoln's stand against slavery (or,
> if that is inaccurate, how about, he supported Lincoln's measures in
> the Civil War as being the only way to stop the spread of slavery in
> the US)
>
> I read that Marx on the Civil War thing a couple years ago, someplace
> funky linked to it so I wound up reading it by mistake, and it was
> quite impressive!  To the point of making me wonder if pacifism had a
> better way to solve that problem.
>
> I think he probably would want to go ahead and have the US change the
> regimes in all those places you mentioned.
>
> Displays some good arguments, 's all I'm sayin'
>
> What I want to do, is backscatter pacifism so nobody ever deposed
> Mossadegh, a-and the US just bought Cuba from Spain instead of going
> to war, and let Allende be, and for gosh sakes no Iran Contra, etc
> etc...
>
> A plan even less practical, for the moment, isn't it?
> and how WOULD one eliminate slavery?
>



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