[lbo-talk] Re: Aundhati Roy on the brewing instability in India

[ravi]

At around 31/5/06 5:59 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On May 31, 2006, at 5:49 PM, ravi wrote:
>> At around 31/5/06 5:25 pm, mike larkin wrote:
>>>     Let me say that I find [...] posts to be a refreshing corrective
>>>     to the gloom and doom stuff about South Asia that you read in the
>>>     left press.
>>
>> Yes indeed! The reality based world is such a bummer ;-). As President
>> Bush has said, someone just has to report the good stuff that is
>> happening in Iraq and we will win the war overnight. The pesky
>> Kashmiris, Muslims, suicidal farmers would all vanish as so much pollen
>> in a Claritin ad!
> 
> Hey, whatever happened to the old idea that capitalism is full of
> contradictions, and that bad things happen alongside not so bad things?
> 

Sure. You may recall my response on PEN-L when a similar matter was
raised. However, I expect the left to perform the critical function of
reporting the bad things. Mike can always get the upbeat stuff, like the
rest of us do, from every other outlet in the world.

If you (general 'you') have not been to India, I suggest a corrective
visit. It remains to be demonstrated that the current neo-lib programme
is going to make any positive impact on the situation there -- and
that's the most charitable thing that can be said about the neo-lib
wank-fest.

	--ravi

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