Universal versus "Western" Re: Chomsky takes down Hitchens

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>But hatred of some of the most positive Western values (yes, there are some)
>is not as inconsequential as some on this list would like to believe,
>either.  The left is in for a rough ride until we're all willing to
>acknowledge that.
>
>-- Luke

By "the most positive Western values" you mean the Enlightenment or 
rather "Freedom, Equality, Property, and Bentham"?  If so, the values 
in question are proper to capitalism and therefore universal, rather 
than "Western" & of necessity parochial. By classifying such values 
as "Western," you end up giving aid & comfort to the most reactionary 
elements in both G8 & the rest.

Yoshie