[lbo-talk] Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 25 09:24:14 PST 2003


kjkhoo at pro.SoftHome.net wrote:


>Just curious. What accounts for the influence of types like Vandana Shiva?

She says things that alienated but prosperous Westerners want to hear - the simple folk really are happier as simple folk and should stay that way. Even though she's a globe-trotter with an advanced degree.

James Heartfield had a wonderful story about an appearance by Rigoberta Menchu in a posh leftish London neighborhood - Hampstead, was it? As long as she played the happy peasant, they loved her, but when she alluded to Lenin about the importance of rural electrification, they turned on her.

Doug



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