Re: [Marxism] SACP on xenophobic attacks

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Only by operating in an historical vacuum can one deny the responsibility
> > of the ANC-SACP for the attacks on the African immigrants in South Africa. In
> > fact the political course taken by the ANC-SACP has a precedent in KANU,
> > another "liberation movement" that came to power after the overthrow of a white
> > minority government, this one some 45 years ago.
>
> What is KANU? I am not familiar with it.
Kenya African National Union.

> Incidentally, to hold responsible the ANC-SACP for the attacks on the
> African immigrants in South Africa, seems to me an odd argument. By
> this token, the white auto workers who killed Vincent Chin (an
> Asian-American  man)  in Detroit in the 1980s, because they were
> afraid that auto jobs would be shipped to Asian countries (Japan),
> were not responsible, but the US government was responsible. There is
> something wrong with this argument as it seems to deny human agency.
> No matter how anxious or insecure, human beings ought to know that it
> is wrong to kill innocent people.
As a Ruthless Critic of All that Exists you seem to be fairly toothless, 
as you seem to dodge the fundamental questions - or perhaps you don't 
even perceive them. The question being debated here is political 
responsibility, not individual agency.

Einde O'Callaghan
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