Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:57:36 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PEN-L:960] Re: Re: sell-out Indians and western arrogance Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ricardo: >Simply the Hegelian term for the so-called peoples "without history". > Oh, why didn't you say that you take Hegel's racist crap seriously. That explains everything. RD: No more than you take seriously Marx's own "racist crap" - still after 1848. Collective self-reflection is not something that comes naturally. It happens only when a community has created a set of institutions in which their own independence and self-determination is affirmed. This requires a rational (normative) understanding of one's own practices. If you merely accept the norms of your group (as revealed truth, or as the way things are just done) then there is no self-reflection. For Hegel, any appeal to anything outside reason as a way of justification for one's practices is against self-determination. But this is a "European" story, and so it raises a multicultural problem. ricardo Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
