the recent apology by DUBYA is taking its toll on arab regimes that tortured and failed to apologise. there is american pie for you. Isn't it better to keep in place an apologetic torturer instead of an arab torturer that does it with impunity? valid questions that also sway arab public opinion
I do not doubt for a minute that the war is a manifestation of the crisis in the centre and the grab for supremacy in a global order.I do not doubt for a moment that history makes all and people will make history in a moment of glory as they please which means that people win and win decisively.
The talk about torture is diverting opinion from occupation.. typical Israeli tactic create new facts on the grounds to make old ones go away.. western public opinion is mesmerized by torture because essentially western working classes are benefiting to varying degrees from the subordination of
soula avramidis wrote:
The talk about torture is diverting opinion from occupation.. typical
Israeli tactic create new facts on the grounds to make old ones go
away.. western public opinion is mesmerized by torture because
essentially western working classes are benefiting to varying degrees
from
First the military diverted specialized forces from Afghanistan to Iraq:
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040329/6056156s.htm
And now the same process is being carried out by the free market:
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/politics/30MILI.html
Michael
but isn't the free market simply the embodiment of the military? or is it vice-versa?
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
First the military diverted specialized forces from Afghanistan to Iraq:
URL:
Headline on one of the front page articles in today's FT:
Afghanistan in danger of reverting to terror breeding ground, warns UN
and the pullout quote is:
The report notes Iraq receives '10 times as much development assistance
with [a similar] population.'
Michael
Tim Bousquet wrote..
And it's very supportable.
Sweeney has lots of bombing in his past, including an
explosion at the Santa Rosa airport, and was
apparently close to people who blew up a BofA. There
are other circumstantial evidence that raise large
questions. (Sweeny could lay the whole thing
Interesting that the jet was diverted by US fighters from Minot N.D. It
would have been interesting if the fighters had decided the jet was bound
for the AFB at Minot and shot down all the executives. Were sorry,
collateral damage.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Jet headed to Washington diverted to
Yoshie wrote:
Keynes' remarks demonstrate that an explanation of post-modernism (or
anti-anti-Eurocentrism, for that matter) should be neither
psychologized nor generalized. For instance, such psychologization
allows one to argue that a criticism of post-modernism =
self-righteous
The ongoing critique in scholastic circles of "euro-centrism"
more and more appears as a member of that large family of
ideological persuasions generally called "post-modernism,"
defined here as a purely academic compensation for the
material defeats the movements of the '60s Karl and
At 09:34 AM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
The trick is to reverse cause and effect, and by attacking the effects
(which exist purely in the superstructure of rarified scholastic dispute)
we can soothe feelings wounded by our inability to oppose effectively the
victories of racism and imperialism
Carrol Cox wrote:
The ongoing critique in scholastic circles of "euro-centrism"
more and more appears as a member of that large family of
ideological persuasions generally called "post-modernism,"
defined here as a purely academic compensation for the
material defeats the movements of the
Yes, the radical, communist term for "Eurocentrism" is "White Supremacy"
CB
Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/12/00 10:34AM
The ongoing critique in scholastic circles of "euro-centrism"
more and more appears as a member of that large family of
ideological persuasions generally called
I agree; anti-eurocentrism carries the danger of post-modernism. I would
add, however, not every critique of eurocentricism should inevitably
lead to post-modernism. Samir Amin has an excellent book called
_Eurocentricism_; Samir is not a post-modernist; he is a marxist; or
GAyatri Spivak,
"eurocentrism" needs
to be retired from our vocabulary, since it acts only to deflect
attention from the ills it pretends to name.
Carrol
Term 'eurocentrism' is problematic although conception that eurocentrism
is colonizer's model of world (as jim blaut, no postmodernist, calls it)
seesm
Term 'eurocentrism' is problematic although conception that eurocentrism
is colonizer's model of world (as jim blaut, no postmodernist, calls it)
seesm generally agreeable. Term can, however, flatten complexity of
european culture and history that includes peripheral regions, social
classes,
I think, I agree with everything that Carrol says. It is a point that I
have tried to make several times, although much less elegantly.
The responses that I have seen so far seem to miss the point (in my
opinion) of Carrol's post and of Marx and Engels' critique of critical
criticism.
Naming calling lets off frustration, but silencing an "opponent" is
a pretty hollow victory. And advances the cause not at all.
And then, there are those who delight in disrupting left discourse,
with shouting denunciations of ill defined crimes, that the perpetrator
couldn't possible
Spivak should just settle down and stop feeling guilty about her big
western salary; I mean, at least she uses some of it for her two per year trips
to India in her struggle against eurocentrism.
I agree; anti-eurocentrism carries the danger of post-modernism. I would
add, however, not
Rod Hay wrote:
I think, I agree with everything that Carrol says. It is a point that I
have tried to make several times, although much less elegantly.
The responses that I have seen so far seem to miss the point (in my
opinion) of Carrol's post and of Marx and Engels' critique of critical
The critique of eurocentrism has been around a lot longer and independently
of postmodern anything. Only those who only heard of "eurocentrism" in the
last ten years or who only know of it through pomo would emphasize a link
between pomo and the critique of eurocentrism. Much pomo itself is
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Spivak should just settle down and stop feeling guilty about her big
western salary; I mean, at least she uses some of it for her two per
year trips to India in her struggle against eurocentrism.
And wrote some classic books on neocolonialism. And
this is quite irrelevant to the point. a lot of liberals who call
themselves marxists are writing in the magazines that benefit from the
system, and filling their pockets. most of them have secure positions in
universities. they get western salaries. this is NOT the ONLY problem of
Spivak...this
Carrol Cox wrote:
that large family of
ideological persuasions generally called "post-modernism,"
defined here as a purely academic compensation for the
material defeats the movements of the '60s Karl and Frederick
described this sort of maneuver rather well in *The German
Ideology*. If
Ted Winslow:
An important psychological factor in each case is "compensation" in the form
of disguised satisfaction of motives that would generate intolerable anxiety
if expressed and pursued consciously. The unconscious motivation is
murderous, sadistic hate. In each of the cases above, this
At 09:34 12/04/00 -0500, Carrol wrote:
The ongoing critique in scholastic circles of "euro-centrism"
more and more appears as a member of that large family of
ideological persuasions generally called "post-modernism,"
defined here as a purely academic compensation for the
material defeats
The critique of eurocentrism has been around a lot longer and
independently
ofpostmodern anything. Only those who only heard of "eurocentrism" in
the
last ten years or who only know of it through pomo would emphasize a link
between pomo and the critique of eurocentrism. Much pomo itself is
classes, marginalized and stigmatized peoples. Simplistic inversion
positing europe as 'evil' and turning colonialist model on its head
remains eurocentric since focus remains on Europe (and lets third
world elites off hook). Michael Hoover
historically speaking, there were
G'day Mine,
as Marx said in the Communist Manifesto, working classes should
"settle accounts with their own bourgeoisie first". Evidence is Soviet
and Chinese communism, and other anti-imperialist struggles around
the globe.
That's old evidence, Mine. How'd you reckon a working class
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