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Re: [Marxism] "our" troops' moral duty



On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:26:23 -0700 (PDT), cleon42@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> "Otherwise don't whine to me about the horrors of warfare. Be a mensch
and do something about it.
> (P.S. for those unfamiliar with the word mensch, it's gender
neutral, means human being.)"
>
> Actually, it's Yiddish for "man"

Must come from the German word "Mensch", which has the grammatical
gender male, but not in its meaning, which is simply "human being".


Yours,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
--------------------------------
visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in
German



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