[lbo-talk] Roy on Indian election

[John Lacny]

I think that Aijaz Ahmad was right about Roy. She's an immensely talented writer, entertaining, and has the courage of her convictions. Nevertheless, she goes in for the fashionable anticommunism that characterizes so many progressive intellectuals in both the Third World and First (*The God of Small Things* is politically unfair at times); she has been explicit in saying that the appropriate mode of action for our time is "resistance," and the act of carving out a space for "the small things" to survive in a big, hostile world. Taking power and actually changing the picture -- winning, in other words -- is not on her agenda, probably because she doesn't think it's possible. Or even desirable.

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John Lacny
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