Re: straw man?

=?iso-8859-1?Q?JO=C3O?= BATISTA MARTINS (jbmartin who-is-at sercomtel.com.br)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:27:37 -0300

At 21:22 22/04/96 -0700, Eugene wrote:

>What can we (who we?) do with this "logic of societal necessity?"
>
>People who try to struggle with exploitation, oppression, and alienation can
>be seen as naive because it seems that all (?) societies of the past and
>present are based (more or less) on exploitation, oppression, and
>alienation. Besides, they often can find themselves participating in
>exploitation, oppression, and alienation of other people. My personal hope
>is not in the result but in the process that makes (my) life meaningful.

Eugene and XMCA ers

I locate this problem over the classes differences and their
echos... At first is necesary we create one new logic and this demand time
and available (disponibilidade in Portuguese) to think alternatives
relations which overcome theses differences.To think what we are naive
because the societies of past and present are based on exploitation,
oppression and alienation is naturalize facts wich are historicals and maded
by men.
We must observe what the exploitation, oppression and alienation had
several expressions during the time. I think what today there are manners
less violentes (physiquement) to oppress and to alienate. Bourdieu suggests
the idea of simbolic violence. Guattari, the movement of
desterritorialization and territorialization. There is several authors who
are trying to explain these news ways of expressions of power relations.
While we get up the contradictions, enlighten the mechanism used to
opress and shared ours discovery whit syndicates, association wich defend
the human dues, etc... we walk in the direction of one society more
democratic, I hope...

JOAO BATISTA MARTINS
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