There is no anti British
>sentiment in Phule's work.
Ulhas, this is a far cry from the pro British sentiment you had attributed
to him, and in no way denies that the movment that was influenced by him
grew anti British as well as anti Brahman as its radicalism peaked,
>My remarks about Marx were based on my sense of Marx's overall work,
>particularly Capital and Grundrisse. I am not familiar with Krader's
>arguments. However, I am sceptical about the idea of a pre-existing human
>essence corrupted by capitalism.
>
Krader does not claim an essence. Argues that in the ethnological notebooks
Marx critiques bourgeois asses who find their conventionalities, i.e., the
essence of man as shopkeeper, everywhere. More later. Will be off line for
several days.
bye, r