Re: Re: Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion fromAnti-racism/anti-imperialism (fwd)

2000-04-12 Thread Rob Schaap
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 re

Re: Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion fromAnti-racism/anti-imperialism (fwd)

2000-04-12 Thread md7148
>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 anti-imp

Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion fromAnti-racism/anti-imperialism (fwd)

2000-04-12 Thread md7148
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, Indian