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

2000-04-12 Thread Charles Brown
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

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

2000-04-12 Thread Ted Winslow
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

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

2000-04-12 Thread Louis Proyect
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

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

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