Re: criticising Arundhati Roy

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/15/07, Patrick Bond <pbond@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > All Doug, et al. have to say is
> > what she looks like, how she lives, and how she has been received in
> > the West.
>
> Which she also does herself, more humbly and eloquently than dear
> comrade Doug ever will manage, I reckon:

The difference is that's not all she does, in criticizing what she
criticizes.  I suppose Doug does have a criticism or two of Roy's
ideas about US imperialism, Indian capitalism, the CPI(M) and the
CPI(Maoist), etc.  Roy, for instance, opposed the Afghanistan War from
the get-go in no uncertain terms, while Doug was hoping for a
multilateral, not unilateral, intervention there.  But Doug hasn't
articulated exactly what his criticism of her politics is.  He
evidently thinks that's unnecessary, perhaps beneath attention of a
serious male intellectual!
--
Yoshie