cultural imperialism

Mina Kumar wejazzjune at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 14 13:49:31 PST 2001



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: cultural imperialism
>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:20:53 -0500


>>and 2) the social origins of the
>>>anti-colonial leaders help explain the disappointing course of
>>>post-independence life, which often involves betrayal, exploitation,
>>>and repression.
>>
>>
>>I don't know if you could make a fine-grained correlation, but like
>>you said, this doesn't invalidate the critique of imperialism, so
>>it's a red herring.
>
>If the critique of imperialism comes from a class that just wants to
>set up its own despoterie, then it's not a red herring at all. It
>matters a lot, especially to the masses that are taken in by the
>fraud.

Why criticize their class position rather than the actual substance of their critique of imperialism (which of course reflected the kind of state they envisioned) ?

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