>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 20:59:12 -0500
>
>Mina Kumar wrote:
>
>>My point wasn't that you didn't or that you don't know, it's that
>>these comments don't reflect that knowledge, and this is what makes
>>people react.
>
>I've been writing for an audience that I assumed knew the things I've
>said here and elsewhere.
>
>There's a sad convention in a lot of left writing that you have to
>invoke a whole litany of sins and crimes before you can say anything.
>Maybe it's just an American thing, I don't know. But it often makes
>the stuff clotted and unreadable. I'd thought I could dispense with
>it here.
Yeah, except that you did so in an argument in which they were rather vitally relevant.
>Actually I spent a good deal of my life denouncing U.S. cultural
>imperialism, and attributing it purely to economic power. It's only
>over the last year or so that I started thinking that things were
>more complicated than that.
Ah, the bitter enthusiasm of the recent convert! : )
I don't think I ever denied the agency of the subaltern in
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