>From Joe-
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, CK Vishwanath <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >DEar vishwanath, >>below iam scribbling some of my recent concerns .I am a bit confused by the >>way in which stalwarts like zizec and Alan bodiue subscribe to the view that >>relgion is the answer to all the perils and that we have to seek the answer >>for all philosophical queries in Bible, paul and Augustine.Where has gone the >>left which had the courage to stand by secular Marxism. If we buy "the >>relgion inits 'true' form as panacea for all" argument, what about relgion >>like Hinduism of india which as a philosophy justify hierarchical >>discrimination based on caste and oppression. . Terry Eagelton is another guy >>who leaves no stone unturned in his ferocious and violent defence of >>chrisitinaity like a true fanatic. >> > >In my own personal experience as catholic in india (before my atheistic phase) >which is discriminatory on caste lines and in the mainstream, except inthe >safe academic corridors of the pretencious catholic left,works for >de-politicisation.I have experienced religion as truely retrograde,if if it >is devoid of its potential ability to surive as a philosophic entity,and >understood as a superstition of the masses. We are people who lived the >experience of combined attack by the relgions against ineter religious >marriages .Religion as a real life experience is patriarchal, hierarchical and >foments bigotry. If relgion is the only answer for the quest to comprehend >human essence, as the apogees of god from the left say, and the epitome of >human history ( because they say in religion and in its myths man saw his own >purified reflection without the wordly blemishes,(forget brahmanism) , then >what about feminist criticism of relgion as patriarchal. What about > the crass superstitions which make 3rd world people depoliticise and > slavish.I don’t deny liberatory impulses associated with certain religious > movements at some points in history.But on the whole, as a fullfeldged theory > for emancipation how can it help. Above all, what about the dialectics > between science and religion at its common level without the Kuhnian > post-modern interpolation. Science or say rationaltity is not a mere product > of capitalism and enlightemnemnt. It dates back to the crude materialism of > Epicurus and all the debates of ancient greek.. Debiprasad chatopadhyaya had > shed light on the existence of philosphical materialism in its rationalist > 'avtar in the struggles of charvakas of ancient india in their fight against > Hindu brahmanism.He also showed us the veiled existence of materilaist > philosphy in the dscourse of many an idealistic schools,despite the pretence > of godliness, fearing peresecution from powers that be.Zizeks and the > likes should even understand that budhism in its corporate phase would be > idealistic lamaism, but it was handy in opposing brahmanic caste exploitation > in its beginning. so the theory that the realm of spirituality,dating back to > antiquity, is the only human edifice worth resorting to is a nonesense. >> > >In their rightful indignation at Stalinist bureaucratisation of socilaism, >even noble scholastic pursuits in erst-while soviet Russia is forgotten by the >left.Stacherbesky is a case in point.with regards joe > > > > > > > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
