on the philippine left

(here's to posting more than once in a day)

mayn.. kat just pwned me in my previous post..
i almost wanna delete it now.. but i can't be a wussy like that..
i'll take the punishment...


i went to this talk given by walden bello with wally about the political state in the philippines, it was in oakland and there were some scary socialist people there.. we also took hella free food without even donating any money!!.. (sorry if you wanted to keep that a secret, wally)

anyways, there was this one question addressed to walden about some accusations coming from the far left side (the far left as in liberal side, not of the room).. and walden gave an answer that struck me with some profound insight.. he said that nobody has a monopoly on the action being done about the political killings we as the left side need to come together.. doesn't matter how far left you are, all that matters is that we're on the left, and we don't like the things that the right side is doing, but in order to make change we need to come together...

maybe it's not so profound to you, but it makes me think.. sometimes as a person with progressive ideologies, you maybe feel that you and your close colleagues are the only ones thinking this way, when really there are a lot of people thinking this way, maybe not exactly the same, but similar.. maybe more explicitly said, the left is very fragmented with what they called the "old" left and the extreme left.. this is all fine and dandy, but sometimes different parts of the left start getting at each other when really we should be getting at the other side.. and the only way to get this shit done is to put aside our subtle differences and create a united front..


hmm.. that's a lot of jumbled-ness.. let's try to break it down..

when you share a common "enemy"with someone, the point is not to fight over who hates the enemy more, or who is dealing with the enemy better, but to find out a collective way to overcome the "enemy"...

seems simple, but life is fuckin complex!!!


dammit.. there goes my two posts in one day.. it's 12:06