> > >Ricardo Duchesne wrote:> >
>> >>Like to read her exact words. Know she likes the good life,
>> >>Columbia's salary, speaking tours, expensive Indian garments,
>> >>servant baths and all.
>> >
>> >So should she wear a hair shirt and live on table scraps instead?
>> >
>> >Doug
>>
>> Columbia faculty get servant baths?
>>
>> Gee. Inequality in Manhattan must be greater than I thought...
>>
>>
>> Brad DeLong
>
>Back in India. Nothing serious, she can enjoy herself
Ricardo is implying that if you are born rich in the Third World, you
are of necessity forever trapped in the aristocratic ideology of
enjoying leisure & dependence upon servants, moreover endorsing the
social relations that give you many servants who wait upon you,
whatever your political commitment (to Marxism, feminism, world
systems theory, etc.).
On the average, intellectuals in poor nations probably come more
often from the classes & strata that can hire servants than
intellectuals in rich nations do, since in the former education is
not as widely provided as in the latter. That's a force of
circumstances that say nothing about Spivak as an individual thinker.
Yoshie
