>So do you have some good comparative statistics re life expectancy,stillbirths, etc. in traditional versus "modern" societies. And do you think that we should not violently reconstruct traditional societies by banning such practices as binding women's feet, clitoral mutilation, widows joyously throwing themselves on hubbies funeral pyre etc.etc.etc.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
This argument is identical to the one made by Eduard Bernstein in defense of colonialism.
Louis Proyect
Why equate modernity with colonialism, as colonizers have us do? Why not socialist modernism, with Bauhaus & emancipated womanhood!
Yoshie
- Re: Re: socialization of reproduction, (continued)
- Re: Re: socialization of reproduction, Michael Pugliese Fri 29 Jun 2001, 03:22 GMT
- Re: Re: Re: Re: suburbia, Ken Hanly Thu 28 Jun 2001, 19:42 GMT
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: suburbia, Michael Perelman Thu 28 Jun 2001, 19:45 GMT
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: suburbia, Louis Proyect Thu 28 Jun 2001, 19:56 GMT
- Socialist Modernism! (was Re: suburbia), Yoshie Furuhashi Thu 28 Jun 2001, 20:14 GMT
- Re: Socialist Modernism! (was Re: suburbia), Louis Proyect Thu 28 Jun 2001, 21:20 GMT
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: suburbia, Ken Hanly Thu 28 Jun 2001, 20:31 GMT