Carrol Cox wrote: >Perhaps she (Shiva) simply has wrong ideas. And if the ideas are wrong, >it is best, I should think, to simply critique the ideas rather than >speculate on her conscious or unconscious motives. > >I think it in general a bad idea (allowing for bursts of temper & other >personal idiosyncracies) to characterize people rather than positions.
I am characterizing a position - that of generally upper-middle-class Westerners who are disturbed by the vulgarity of industrial (never capitalist) society, and have a romantic longing for rootedness and place. They frequently live in places like Marin County and the Berkshires. They nominate certain spokespersons from the so-called Third World to tell them how wonderful rootedness and place are, and how dreadful industrial (never capitalist) society is. It's the contemporary version of the romantic anti-capitalism Marx wrote about in the Grundrisse. Doug
