RE: Troubles of the World (fwd)

I'll throw my two cents behind Warren.

As I read his posts, he argues that many of the short term and acute
problems of our world, including the atrocities (indeed bullshit) that NATO
/ US creates, are rooted in global inequalities that people tend to overlook
precisely because they are distracted by short run events.  He does not just
attack this world-system, but argues for a better world-system, and has a
number of interesting publications.  His posts should be read more
carefully, lest someone who is actually in fundamental agreement with him
(at least from my view) misread and mistakenly attack him (and write too
many posts of shallow content).

> Dear Warren,
>
> There may be some misunderstanding, but I personally did not make sense of
> your reminding us "we need to refocus". I don't think that there is
> anything left about the world system we did not focus, since we have been
> discussing here world systemic issues pertaining to capitalism and US
> hegemony.It seemed to me that you wanted to intervene in the subject
> matter of the posts (ie.,"don't discuss women's issues, Iraq, Kosova,
> discuss this or that" kind of ad hominem) rather than reminding us what we
> "really" need to refocus. I don't know but this is how I read your first
> paragraph. World systemic transformation is all we want. What we need to
> discuss is the KIND of world system we want, not just a world system!
>
> thanks,
>
> Mine
>
>
> > Sorry, but we need to re-focus.  We all know that the great issue
> >facing humankind in the 21st Century is not the rights of frozen embryos
> >or the genocide in Iraq or the crap dispensed by Madeline Albright or
> >NATO >bullshit about Kosovo or whatever.  The problem is that most of the
> >wealth >and power in the modern world-system is wielded by the 20% of the
> world's >people who live in the "advanced" countries, and that most of
> their >wealth >and power is in turn concentrated in the top 5% of the
> people in the top >20%.
>
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