[lbo-talk] Capitalism and Discourse

[ravi]

On 4 Oct, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 10/3/07, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>> On 3 Oct, 2007, at 21:36 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>>
>>> But it seems that there's a growing number
>>> of people in the South who have to some degree imported western
>>> models...
>>
>> Progress is inevitable, as the liberals (or rather, the
>> progressives ;-)) say!
>
> Whether same-sex sex or nuclear power plants, what is to be done is to
> develop our own models by enriching what we have, or what we used to
> have, rather than importing inferior models that the West will soon
> discard anyway...

Yoshie, that is so late 20th century pomo relativism. We are done  
with the whole Heckuva Job Brownie thing, now -- frankly, brownie has  
become a bit of an embarrassment with the Ahmadi-whatshisname and the  
rest of them "Apu"s.

	--ravi