But I think all parties involved need to have that sort of dual realization that a) they can't fix everything by themselves but also b) nothing will be fixed if everyone thinks a).
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"It's big, and it's complicated, because it's structural oppression, but you have to start somewhere, and usually that place is you." (General you, not you-you.)
These remarks struck me, profoundly. I love dropping in here because reading you helps me a lot in my raising-my-own-social-consciousness program, which is not indeed as programmatic as I'd like it to be, but I do seem to be moving in a forward direction along that axis nonetheless. And I've been wanting to ask you for a while: What do you think of Terry Eagleton? I single him out just because he's the only Marxist/political/etc. critic I've read.
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"It's big, and it's complicated, because it's structural oppression, but you have to start somewhere, and usually that place is you." (General you, not you-you.)
These remarks struck me, profoundly. I love dropping in here because reading you helps me a lot in my raising-my-own-social-consciousness program, which is not indeed as programmatic as I'd like it to be, but I do seem to be moving in a forward direction along that axis nonetheless. And I've been wanting to ask you for a while: What do you think of Terry Eagleton? I single him out just because he's the only Marxist/political/etc. critic I've read.