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> I think it is rather elitist for you to pick on just one or two lines from
the article and then condemn >the author, Mr. Rajshekar's views as
"chauvinisim and
> backward-thinking" or to go about question the 'progressivism' of people
you hardly know.
Sandeep is quite correct in being prickly about western elitism. If I
appeared to criticize Dalit from that perspective (I don't see how he or
anyone else could arrive at such a conclusion), than I fumbled badly. Dalit
to me sounds a great deal like the argument put forth by the early Zionist
movement. In fact, the Balfour Declaration used strikingly similar language
in promoting a homeland for the Jew. It is, any way you look at it, a
profoundly backward and reactionary movement (remember, too, that the early
fascists were categorically "anti-capitalist" in their diatribes), as even a
cursory perusal of their web site will confirm. Nowhere is there a mention
of capitalism, or socialism, or the role of the State, or of the masses in
making their own history. It is narrowly chauvinistic, racist, with no more
than a sullen resentment of the rich and anyone else who is not of the
Chosen. As I said, it is very like Zionism. Do we really need another
racist, war-like State in our midst?
Louis Godena
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