Articles by Susan Babbitt
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Why It’s Hard to Understand What’s Happening in Venezuela
Susan Babbitt - CounterPunch,
14 Aug 2017
8 Aug 2017 – We hear about violence in Venezuela but not about politically motivated deaths in Mexico, Colombia and Honduras. Einstein said that “mere thinking” doesn’t produce great science. He knew something Marx knew, namely, that facts always depend upon a particular perspective. Knowledge is not power. If we don’t know what knowledge explains, or might, it’s useless.
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Susan Babbitt - CounterPunch,
7 Sep 2015
Nobel-prize-winning author, Gabriel García Márquez, noticed in Cuba “the near mystical conviction that the greatest achievement of the human being is the proper formation of conscience”. Guevara is part of the legacy. He saw moral, not material incentives driving the world forward, meaning by “moral” the broader, more interesting sense of experiencing humanness. This means that it is not virtuous to pursue solidarity but practical.
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