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 defeat
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 critica
>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
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. Building
>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
>class
> "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)
sees
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
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 imperialis
