RE: [Marxism] Legendary Vietnamese general offers warning to

["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Jim C.:

  I grew up as a small child digging in the trash for my food, I have
been 
the victim of tremendous abuse which is not appropriate for the Marxism
List.  I 
have traveled the world as a volunteer for UNICEF.  I have seen first
hand 
the horrors of ignorance and hypocrisy.  I'm not sure where my sheltered
life 
part is that you have referred to.  I am only unschooled as to how to
apply what 
I have learned and integrate it into something that I can do besides
handing 
out bread and sleeping in rat infested tents with bands of children
begging me 
to take them with me.  I'm sorry that my service to my fellow man is so 
appalling and childish to you...really.  I came to the Marxism list
believing there 
I would learn a practicum for helping on a broader field.  I ask that
you 
would simply help me in that endeaver without insults.

Lana

First of all you are writing to someone whose mother was taken and
abused by some of these adopt-a-child-save-their-heathen-souls types and
later adopted out. They had the same kind of arrogance and insensitivity
you demonstrate when you start Bible-banging on a Marxism list. When you
keep reiterating all your "good works" and trying to summarily assert
generalized credentials and expertise based on some personal anecdotal
stuff on a very small level, not only are you "violating" Matthew 6: 1-8
(one of my favorites) you are revealing yourself ingorant of basic
epistemology--bourgeois as well as Marxist. And finally when you tout
reformism and personal and individualized actions as the answer to mass
problems flowing from the inner and defining features, contradictions
and "logic" of the system itself, you are touting an aspirin for cancer,
skin cream for a syphillitic rash or "optimality" in the arrangement of
deck chairs on the Titanic. Further, from your consistent touting of all
your "good works", it appears that like in the case of all religious
missionary types, it is really about you and your own psychic
utility/needs rather than for the real needs of the victims.

Jim C

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