Re: AUT: Re:Sylvie and George (fwd)

[Chris <red@xxxxxxx>]

can someone e-mail me the Sylvie and George paper too?

did anyone else find the conclusion of that other paper, "The Politics of
Massacre", about NGOs interesting? from the vantage point of Canada and
the US, I also see how NGOs may benefit the status quo (and that their
history was never independent from this, whether in church or philanthropy
ties), but experiences elsewhere like Chiapas where a revolutionary
movement is present make me wonder in a different way what the NGO deal is
all about anyway... maybe yet another machine which appropriates peoples'
labour away from their own radical interests and toward commodification
and assimilation. Isn't the difference between even "radical" NGOs and
groups like the Zapatistas that NGOs obtain their energy from the
subordinated as objects for alternate salvation and appropriation and
revolutionaries are the people who struggle to assert a new subjectivity
which is neither subordinated nor nostalgic?

(But maybe I'm off here -- what do other people think?)




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