On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Nasreen Karim wrote:
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> > The fact is, historically speaking, a big part of Marxist
> > thinking was not able to break away from an Eurocentric (hence, I dare say,
> > imperialistic) thought pattern. Even Gramsci, who is otherwise so
> > illuminating, showed clear signs of Eurocentric prejudices in his writings.
Carol wrote:
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> Could this help explain why the only marxists after Lenin who stand out
> as indisputable giants are non-europeans -- Cabral, Mao, James, Ho.
> Perhaps, though he was not a marxist, one should nevertheless add
> Malcolm. There have been innumerable fine marxist scholars and
> activists (and activist scholars), European and non-European, but none
> stand out as these men do.
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> Carrol
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What about Ernest Mandel? Sweezy? Dobb? To name just a few...
Steve
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