So I started readying Moral man in an Immoral Society again

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have not read that books since that long ago course in International law

And I was amazed at readying how the environment in which this book was originally written is to today

Ok, there is a difference.

He wrote it in the midst of the Depression... and we are looking down at one

Some of the references are dated... such as the UK and India and of course Dewey... but the general gist is still present

And when it comes to his understanding that compromise leads you nowhere when trying to reach for change I went... my god... he is right.

The intro I just finished readying was done in 1960... where he spoke with passion about how compromise would get no change in civil rights. Yes, you read right. People were still asking people in the African American Community to go for compromise and reach for the best solution they could that way. You tell me, looking down that road, how much compromise what there?

So when we are asked these days to compromise and just hand on I realize that we are being asked to just be good, and mostly quiet

The time for compromise is over... very much so, and this is what scares people

Folks are figuring this out, independently from each other. And if we are to change the power relationship between those who have the power, and those who don't (read us) we must be willing to do what others have done before. Because the men of capital will not surrender their power to the workers, to use his words, or for that matter the southern system will surrender to the black man

And just like any and all of those groups we will be called all kinds of names but to paraphrase Kennedy... those who prevent peaceful revolution only assure the violent one... and people are waking up to the reality of the American System and how sick our society is... independently... and realizing that it will take far more than compromise

On edit, the intro is to the re-release of the book

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