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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 262</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times">WHAT IS THE
PROBLEM WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE THAT IT HAS SO FAR BEEN UNABLE TO
BECOME AN AUTHENTIC MASS RENEWAL MOVEMENT?</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times">A contemporary philosopher asked
himself: Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of
capitalism? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times">According to the same philosopher, we tend to ignore
existing social conflicts and contradictions thus avoiding a political
mobilization against the excesses of capitalism. In this vision, human rights
(HR) are too often presented as a (carefully depoliticized) global-humanitarian-cause
disjointed from the existing critical political and ecological discourse, and not
as our best current alternative to follow that covers that discourse. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times">It is argued that, in order to fix the<span> </span>shortcomings of capitalism, one has to
acknowledge that it is technological transformations that are necessary --and
this is deemed beyond questioning. We have, of course, to change this attitude
radically. The global social threat of epic proportions we face affects not
only a few, but everybody. That alone calls for global actions carried out in
many little places at the same time.<span> </span></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>For the full text of this Reader go to</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/?p=5246" target="_blank">http://www.socialmedicine.org/?p=5246</a> </div>
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