Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of theft (lets not quibble - TopicsExpress



          

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of theft (lets not quibble over the use of this word) in our human social systems: 1) The historically deeper, more fundamental, and more structurally embedded one, and 2) the more superficial, more temporally ephemeral, and less far-ranging one. The first is the legacy of inequitable distributions of political economic power over generations (by which initial distributions of inheritable property are ALL traceable back to violent theft from someone else). The second is any legal or illegal redistribution that occurs on the surface of that sea of inequity. The far-right, being the superficial reptiles that they are, are focused entirely on the latter and only seek to fully legitimate and ignore the former. The left, not always getting the full range of considerations just right, focuses more on the former but often fails to achieve the kind of nuanced, comprehensive analysis that we really need to be working with. The point? Theres only one ideology to which any of us should ever adhere: That of striving to mobilized disciplined reason and imagination in unflagging service to our shared humanity. I dont care if any particular idea from the left or the right passes or fails by that standard; I only care that it is the only standard to which we ever adhere.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:24:44 +0000

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