Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00259)

Ian McRae wrote:
> 
> > Government based on powers of government deriving from the people and
> > not the other way around? Enforcing an end to slavery? Giving equal
> > rights to women and minorities? Extending rights to people who are not
> > native to the country? Enforcing freedom of speech and thought? Such
> > horrible things, for those who would rather live as slaves.
> 
> To paraphrase Marx, "The point however, is not to interpret the world, but
> to change it". 

Marx also predicted that during WWI, the workers would forget about
their nationalities, and join together for a big worker's revolution. We
all know how THAT turned out. Marx had a great system, provided that you
didn't screw it up by including human beings.

> Sniping from the sidelines is a favourite pastime of people
> who have no power in themselves. If one is a true Theosophist, then one
> should change the world, and that can only be done by changing ones self
> first. 

Yet, it is sniping from the sides that I see there.

> To paraphrase someone else, "Before you are in a position to take
> the speck of sawdust out of someone else's eye, you'll have to get the tree
> trunk out of your own". 

And my great-grandfather was slaughtered by a gang of people who
followed that person. 

Bart Lidofsky