Re: Troubles of the World (fwd)

Dear Mine,

        I just returned to the world on-line.  Yes, agreed.  All specific
issues deserve respect and attention, but we must never lose sight of the
wider picture.  Horrors abound, we know what some of them are, and miss
many more;  but the overwhelming task is global transformation--before 
time runs out.  Thank you!

        Warren

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu wrote:

> 
> 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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