Socialist Modernism! (was Re: suburbia)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

>  >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