If opposition to genocide and oppression of poor farmers makes one a “leftist,” then I guess it is. Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” highlighted the oppression experienced by poor peasants during the war of secession that established Bangladesh as a separate nation.
So there are movements of the very people Singer seemed concerned with in that essay, people suffering from hunger and marginalization. Does no one who is part of the EA movement believe that EA should express solidarity with hunger’s victims fighting on their own behalf?
There seems to be a choice between doing for passive others or acting in solidarity with hunger’s victims who are active in struggle. Is it always the former, never the latter? If so, doesn’t that smack of “the white man’s burden?”
If opposition to genocide and oppression of poor farmers makes one a “leftist,” then I guess it is. Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” highlighted the oppression experienced by poor peasants during the war of secession that established Bangladesh as a separate nation.
So there are movements of the very people Singer seemed concerned with in that essay, people suffering from hunger and marginalization. Does no one who is part of the EA movement believe that EA should express solidarity with hunger’s victims fighting on their own behalf?
There seems to be a choice between doing for passive others or acting in solidarity with hunger’s victims who are active in struggle. Is it always the former, never the latter? If so, doesn’t that smack of “the white man’s burden?”