by Nacmir » Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:59 pm
Cat-Scratch wrote:
/American'd
It's a little more than that.
When french killed nazis that were ocuppying them, we consider them heros.
When afgani kill americans that were ocuppying them, it is wrong and barbaric.
They are a ocuppied country and to add insult to injury, the ones ocuppying them are disgracing them, and your response to that is "huur duur, they're killing soldiers, hurr durr".
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