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Learning to Listen
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Voume 64, Number 1, Winter 2017
- pp. 108-114
- 10.1353/dss.2017.0020
- Article
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This is an article with a simple argument: that what “internationalism” requires of all leftists is a commitment to listen to comrades abroad. “All defenders of human rights,” Shirin Ebadi has written, “are members of a single family.” Is the American left part of the family? We certainly are active and engaged members whenever the violations of human rights can be attributed to our own government. Not so much when other agents are at work.