Hi Lance,
Howard is currently the embodiment of "Liberal rightwing philosophy" and
must be defeated , otherwise that philosophy will retain ascendency in our
political system.
All "isms" are are made up of individuals, and the individuals must be
attacked and defeated if the "ism" is to be overcome.
To "look at the system" without sheeting home responsibility for that system
to the individuals who support and embody that system, is to whistle in the
wind.
A defeat for Howard is another nail in the coffin for "Liberal rightwing
philosophy".
Fight to win.
Laurie.
Laurie and Desley Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bushranger Ned <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Howard's disgrace
>I am at odds with the last comments by Tony Mockeridge and the aggressive
>manner in which he has singled out one individuals faults for all the
>trouble with prejudice and racism in this country. It would however be
more
>effective to actually look at the political and value systems beliefs of
>those people who call them selves liberals and how that much power and
>capitalist control over so many years by western domination can lead to so
>much disfranchising and disempowering and marginilsation firstly of black
>people and people of different ethnicity, women at large and people with
>any kind of disability.
>Liberal right wing philosophy is centered around the individual without
>respect of the community at large or the different groups in society,
>liberal people think only with their greed for wealth and how to make a
fast
>buck of someone else and often at someone else's demise.
>Liberally minded people think that everyone should look out for themselves
>and have no one to blame for the way they but themselves.
>
>As a mature age student I'm learning at present about the four types of
>capitalism.
>
>a/ Financial - money wealth
>b/ Physical - power - institution, large hospitals , multinational
>skyscraper type minds
>c/ Human - how many people are employed or unemployed
>d/ Social - what people put into a society without earning income, i.e.
>volunteer efforts, organising change, based on personal ideology with
others
>that sort of thing.
>
>Well guess what Liberals only concern themselves with the first three.
>
>China would concern itself first and foremost with the last.
>Russia seems to have lost power because it forgot about social capital and
>spent more time on the others.
>
>A socialist or person believing in positive outcomes for all people would
>believe in ensuring the rights of people are first and foremost in peoples
>eyes. A socialist ideal would consider how to bring about equality for all
>of its society and not just the fortunate 10% of this country.
>A socialist view would consider the rights of the first people to own this
>land and be recognised as the owners throughout the world.
>A socialist would publicise the fact that all people who have arrived in
the
>last 211 years are immigrants, a socialist would recognise English
>domination over the Irish as this country developed.
>A socialist person would recognise a person right to protest and demand
>change.
>A socialist person would recognise that in order to have equality in
society
>that others have to be less equal. (less equality for men greater
>opportunity for women, less employment for white Australians greater
>employment for black Australians.)
>A socialist person would recognise that change for society comes from
within
>the community and not from dominant wealthy people.
>A socialist would recognise the need for consultation and effective
>negotiation with positive outcomes.
>A socialist would recognise the need for radical confrontation if peoples
>needs are not being met.
>
>Regards,
>Lance.
>White hetero-Anglo-Saxon English/Irish ancestry single-older male catholic
>with a willingness and want for society to change, who grew up looking for
a
>cause in all the wrong places.
>
>
>
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