On 27 Aug 2004, at 11:33 pm, Eric B. Rakim wrote:
Mr. Burling was referring to the great popular
movements of the 18th,
19th and 20th century that forced our governments to allow us the
rights we enjoy today. If it wasn't for the great thinkers and leaders
like Rosseau, Marx, Lenin, Benjamin Franklin, the leader of the French
Revolution and MILLIONS of American and Europeian nobodys that
actually striked and protested and got things done, then we wouldn't
have the rights that we have today.
And THAT, solidarity through organised struggle, IS (historically) a
trait of Western Culture and something to be proud of. So stop
hitting on Mr. Burling just cause he didn't explain it as good.
Why are you misrepresenting the discussion? What you mention certainly
is a part of Western Culture, and a part that I am proud of myself. But
this isn't the argument I was disputing. Why you think I should
telepathically know what Geoff "really" meant is beyond me.
Christiaan