Socialist Modernism! (was Re: suburbia)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  >So do you have some good comparative statistics re life expectancy,
>>stillbirths, etc. in traditional versus "modern" societies.
>>And do you think that we should not violently reconstruct traditional
>>societies by banning such practices as binding women's feet,
>>clitoral mutilation, widows joyously throwing themselves on hubbies funeral
>>pyre  etc.etc.etc.
>>
>>      Cheers, Ken Hanly
>
>This argument is identical to the one made by Eduard Bernstein in defense
>of colonialism.
>
>Louis Proyect

Why equate modernity with colonialism, as colonizers have us do?  Why 
not socialist modernism, with Bauhaus & emancipated womanhood!

Yoshie