Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion from An

["Ricardo Duchesne" <RDUCHESN@xxxxxxxx>]

Spivak should just settle down and stop feeling guilty about her big
western salary; I mean, at least she uses some of it for her two per year trips
to India in her struggle against eurocentrism.

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> I agree; anti-eurocentrism carries the danger of post-modernism. I would
> add, however, not every critique of eurocentricism should inevitably
> lead to post-modernism. Samir Amin has an excellent book called
> _Eurocentricism_; Samir is not a post-modernist; he is a marxist; or
> GAyatri Spivak, Indian feminist, for example, argues in her critique of
> Butler and Foucault that post-modernism is an ideological product of
> eurocentric mentality even though post-modernists claim that it does not.
> Post-modernsits do not challange imperialism or pay attention to
> political economy, which Marxist critics of eurocentricism does. I think
> one can draw a line between the two if one does not want to fall into
> problem of "reverse" eurocentricism, orientalism or cultural relativism.
> Recently, Valantine Moghadam, socialist feminist specialized in women's
> issues in the middle east has drawn attention to this necessity arguing
> that women's oppression in the third world is an "interactive" product of
> global and local capitalism; the universal and the particular;
> I definetly do not see any problem in arguing that African
> people are more oppressed than white people, because global
> capitalism definetly priviliges whites for the world system is racially
> biased (as well class and gender).An african worker is at a more
> disadvantage compared to white worker. he is subject to double oppression,
> capitalism and racism. sAying this has nothing to do with giving credit
> post-modernism.
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> To challenge post-modernism, we should still be critical of
> how eurocentricism is ideologically produced and reproduced not only by
> the academics here, but also by the academics in the third world countries
> under the name new orientalist studies.
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> Mine
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> Carrol wrote:
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>   > The ongoing critique in scholastic circles of "euro-centrism">
> <more and more appears as a member of that large family of
> >ideological persuasions generally called "post-modernism,"
> >defined here as a purely academic compensation for the>
> >material defeats
> >the movements of
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