----- Original Message ----- From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
Yes, indeed. From your standpoint it is impossible to pass judgement on anything, and yet you do, incessantly. You say "ethnocentrism" meaning something bad, which is a value judgement. In fact your moral outlook is that perfect distillation of contemporary capitalism - "Whatever" - with its origins in the End of Ideology thesis advanced by Cold War liberals like Daniel Bell and Clifford Geertz carefully tucked away out of sight.
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What *evidence* do you have that he used the term ehtnocentrism in a pejorative way.
That Olympian sneer, common to a lot of Marxists, which seems to inexorably follow from malign and self-serving misinterpretations of what others write and say, is so passe. Why don't you get over the death of god and 'his' semantic substitutes already....
Ian