For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes Assange

Re:For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes... by refurb on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:45AM (#29636430)

To paraphrase the gangster saying “It’s easy to be a vocal proponent of human rights when it’s not your power that’s being threatened.”

That’s what I appreciate about the US system and the words of its founders - it’s basically set up assuming whoever gets power will eventually abuse it. It’s just human nature - we’re great at convincing ourselves we’re in the right.

You think China or the Taliban think they’re bad people? Of course not, everything they do is for the greater good.

So it’s not surprising when a group of journalists, when given the choice (for any number of reasons) chose the status quo and their position of power in it, versus their journalistic idealism.

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Re:For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes... by abbassi on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:59AM (#29636522)

That's not human nature, since there is no abstract human nature! Human beings are social animals, it's all about “social relation!” It's all about conditions of the real material world. The slavery, feudalism or capitalism are not an arbitrary choices of human beings, they are social relations changing with class struggle! Why no powerful person or group wants to enslave, literally enslave, others? because this way, they make more profit! It is all about profit in the capitalism.

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Re:For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes... by refurb on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:25AM (#29636693)

I’d say the USSR and other non-capitalist systems completely blows up your theory. They were more than happy to violate human rights in the goal of “the greater good”. Communist systems are actually fantastic examples that it is human nature.

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Re:For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes... by abbassi on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:14AM (#29637531)

There is one small but fundamental problem with your example: USSR was a state capitalism and not a socialist "state". Lenin expected a socialist revolution in Germany while it failed. It failed and freikorps killed Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. For sure you cannot have a socialism in s backward country like Russia. Socialism, in Marxism-Leninism, as a science, is the dialectical negation of capitalism.

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Re:For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes... by refurb on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:42PM (#29644056)

Ahh the “its not true communism” argument.

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