Re: Re: Re: A reply to Ellen Meiksins Wood

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Ricardo is implying that if you are born rich in the Third World,
> > you are of necessity forever trapped in the aristocratic ideology
> > of enjoying leisure & dependence upon servants, moreover endorsing
> > the social relations that give you many servants who wait upon you,
> > whatever your political commitment (to Marxism, feminism, world
> > systems theory, etc.).
>
> At a talk in NYC last year, Spivak said she did not come from a rich family...

In 1959 in India--when Gayatri Chakravorty graduated from the
University of Calcutta with a First in English--80 percent of Indian
women over 15 could not read. Her family was not "rich" by
first-world standards (she went to graduate school at Cornell on
borrowed money), and thus it was not "super-rich" by Indian standards.

But it does seem somewhat of a confusion of categories to call her
family "solid metropolitan middle class"...


Brad DeLong