Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion from An (fwd)

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this is quite irrelevant to the point. a lot of liberals who call
themselves marxists are writing in the magazines that benefit from the
system, and filling their pockets. most of them have secure positions in
universities. they get western salaries. this is NOT the ONLY problem of
Spivak...this is a systemic problem! why Spivak? why not this? or why not
that? why not X or Y person? why not Chomsky? and the list goes. let's not
personalize this problem..


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>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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