by Nacmir » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:22 pm
HNutz wrote:
Here's where you lost me. You're cool with it someone robs you or your family because of their "cause" or the color of your skin? Whatever...
As long as they do for subverting the structures, I'm ok. I'm not a rich person, I'm not one in power, they'll never rob me for demonstrating something. Never. They'll rob me because they like stuff and as they're within a capitalist society that says to you that you are what you have. I believe crime is the purest way of capitalism: few to invest, high risk, high profit, the difference is that it is against many societies sets of ethics, but those ethics are paper-thin...
To develop their conscience and consciousness, to make them aware of what is going on, to prepare the precarious ground for the future alternatives—this is our task: "our" not only as Marxists but as intellectuals, and that means all those who are still free and able to think by themselves and against indoctrination, communist as well as anticommunist.
Socialist Humanism?, Herbert Marcuse, 1965