The people are hungry, they're denied a basic education, illiterate even, they die of curable diseases, or by their fellow man, technical innovations, and natural resources remain to the benefit of the most developed countries, just as always, even if improvements have been made in some of these matters.
Is the moral argument for revolution in the first world that of internationalism?
There's problems in developed countries too, people locked up in cages, disappearances, massive inequality, including of schooling - even prevalent functional illiteracy, and healthcare. Am I stupid to think that it's not enough?
Or does morality have no place in power politics - that one arrives at revolutionary violence from rational choice overcoming false-consciousness? A hard sell given the material consequences.
many speak the language of morality rather than machiavellian realpolitik, but their actions reveal ruthless self interest which betrays their moral principles. however sometimes people will betray their own material interests to make themselves feel good. But they won't do that a majority of the time, just on a small occasion. It's like bourgeois charity.
>>2657953Isn't this view of "homo economus" widely rejected, including by leading experimental psychologists and even behavioral economists. Even if it was true its hard to imagine a productive violent action in a developed country that would be worth it for the actor who would inevitably be caught and put in the aforementioned cages.
I think it was Houdini who linked the following [^1] last year which I read in passing about the United Freedom Front (UFF) which seemed to indicate that a large part of what they were doing was in solidarity with the third world. RAF if I remember correctly trained with Palestinians, and there were a number of other groups which strongly advocated these causes. So it's not entirely outlandish to say that this might be the motive. The state of the people.
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https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18717/>morality
>>2658554>Isn't this view of "homo economus" widely rejected, including by leading experimental psychologists and even behavioral economists.They also reject communism.