>>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> 09/16/99 06:54PM >>>
I agree with Charles with regard to anarchists. Lorde herself, however, was not such a simpleton in a postmodern fashion, and in her remark about "the master's tools," she was not being anticommunist.
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Charles: Thanks for this "correction" (ha ha) . Seriously, Yoshie is correct. And I didn't really mean to pin much of my criticism on Lorde. It was sort of talking in parentheses.
The Soviet "use of the master's tools" in the form of the state was "incorrect" in many ways, demonstrating Lorde's point.
CB
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Lorde went to the USSR in 1976 as the invited American observer to the African-Asian Writers Conference sponsored by the Union of Soviet Writers. She wrote about her experiences and observations in her essay "Notes from a Trip to Russia" (in _Sister Outsider_) which is quite interesting and in many ways sympathetic to the Soviets, though she wasn't blind to the faults she did see. In the essay, she wrote:
***** I have no reason to believe Russia is a free society....But bread does cost a few kopecs a loaf and everybody I saw seemed to have enough of it...
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