On 5/9/07, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9 May, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Patrick Linder wrote:
>
> Because everyone knows that those people in the South can't be
> trusted to know for themselves what needs to be done. They need
> smart people like intellectuals from the North to tell them what is
> wrong and how to fix it. That model has worked out so well for the
> World Bank and IMF, Northern intellectuals showing Southern states
> how to fix their problems, that we should adopt it as our model,
> rather than listening to those in the South and offering what
> support we can as they reason out their problems and solutions in a
> way that might never have occurred to us.
While the above attitude is not uncommon (from the West/North towards
the South/"third world"), I am sure that Lou or Doug do not believe
they know what's best for the Iranian people! Even Doug and
Galloway's psycho-theorising about the Arab/Muslim mind is, IMHO, ill-
considered (or perhaps irrelevant), not ill-intentioned.
Besides, leftists in the West are not the WB and the IMF, or even like
Moscow in the days of the USSR, so they lack power to impose anything
on the South. I'm just saying that constructive criticisms with
concrete proposals, unlike merely saying "I hate this, that, and other
things," can be debated by people in the South _if they like_, for
them to adopt or reject it.
--
Yoshie
