[PEN-L:11649] Ahmad's critique of third worldism?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Jim,
>What do you think of Aijaz Ahmad's critique of third worldism in his *In
>Theory* book?
>
>Steve

I'm not Jim, but I think that Ahmad went way overboard. In his essay on
Edward Said, he tries to make the case that "Orientalism" was geared to the
needs of upwardly mobile Asian students in America and other sectarian
bullshit like that. He also refers to Christopher Caldwell, the author of
"Notes of a Dying Culture" as "Erskine" Caldwell, who is the author of
"Tobacco Road."

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)