ChairmanGonzalo
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"For us, human rights are contradictory to the rights of the people, because we base rights in man as a social product, not man as an abstract with innate rights. "Human rights" do not exist except for the bourgeois man, a position that was at the forefront of feudalism, like liberty, equality, and fraternity were advanced for the bourgeoisie of the past. Our position is very clear. We reject and condemn human rights because they are bourgeois, reactionary, counterrevolutionary rights, and are today a weapon of revisionists and imperialists, principally Yankee imperialists." — Communist Party of Peru, Sobre las Dos Colinas. 1991
Document which this quote is taken from: Cedema.org - Viendo: Sobre las dos colinas (Documento de estudio para el balance de la III Campaña)
The bottom line of this paragraph, which I wholeheartedly agree with, is that human rights for individuals are contradictory to the rights of the people as a whole. Human beings receive their rights from the government, not just because they were born with them. For example, is you are naked and alone in the arctic, and a polar bear comes up and attacks you. Can you fend it off with your "innate right to life and liberty?" NO! There is no such thing as innate rights, and the only rights a person has is what the government provides.
The right wing uses the concept of "individual rights" to silence and oppress the working classes. The "right to free speech" has been used to allow right wing hate groups and media such as Fox news to continue to slander people of color and the poor, keeping those groups from being treated as equal in society. "The right to protest" simply means that the right wing can stage neo-nazi rallies without fear of punishment, further oppressing the victims of racist violence in this country. "The right of free movement" simply allows rich white people to move into the neighborhoods of poor people of color and gentrify the area, thereby pricing the original residents out of their own homes.
Don't get me wrong, there are certain rights which are necessary in society. But these rights must be applied to the people as a WHOLE, not to individuals. For example, the people as a whole must have the right to speak the truth, meaning that all media which is honest and truthful should be allowed, but that individuals who slander and spew hate can be and should be silenced. The right to vote must be applied to the people as a whole, not to individuals. This means that the people who will vote in the best interests of the country as a whole must be allowed to elect those in charge, but those who vote against the best interests of the people must not be allowed to influence the elections, either by voting or through any other means such as running for office or advertizing.
Simply put, individual rights do not exist. They are a creation of the right wing used to encourage and enforce the oppression of minorities, of women, and the proletariat while covering it under the guise of freedom. The only rights which exist in a truly free and democratic society are the rights of the people as a whole, granted to the people by the government, not any bullsheet "human rights" applied to the individual.
Document which this quote is taken from: Cedema.org - Viendo: Sobre las dos colinas (Documento de estudio para el balance de la III Campaña)
The bottom line of this paragraph, which I wholeheartedly agree with, is that human rights for individuals are contradictory to the rights of the people as a whole. Human beings receive their rights from the government, not just because they were born with them. For example, is you are naked and alone in the arctic, and a polar bear comes up and attacks you. Can you fend it off with your "innate right to life and liberty?" NO! There is no such thing as innate rights, and the only rights a person has is what the government provides.
The right wing uses the concept of "individual rights" to silence and oppress the working classes. The "right to free speech" has been used to allow right wing hate groups and media such as Fox news to continue to slander people of color and the poor, keeping those groups from being treated as equal in society. "The right to protest" simply means that the right wing can stage neo-nazi rallies without fear of punishment, further oppressing the victims of racist violence in this country. "The right of free movement" simply allows rich white people to move into the neighborhoods of poor people of color and gentrify the area, thereby pricing the original residents out of their own homes.
Don't get me wrong, there are certain rights which are necessary in society. But these rights must be applied to the people as a WHOLE, not to individuals. For example, the people as a whole must have the right to speak the truth, meaning that all media which is honest and truthful should be allowed, but that individuals who slander and spew hate can be and should be silenced. The right to vote must be applied to the people as a whole, not to individuals. This means that the people who will vote in the best interests of the country as a whole must be allowed to elect those in charge, but those who vote against the best interests of the people must not be allowed to influence the elections, either by voting or through any other means such as running for office or advertizing.
Simply put, individual rights do not exist. They are a creation of the right wing used to encourage and enforce the oppression of minorities, of women, and the proletariat while covering it under the guise of freedom. The only rights which exist in a truly free and democratic society are the rights of the people as a whole, granted to the people by the government, not any bullsheet "human rights" applied to the individual.
