Re: criticising Arundhati Roy

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/15/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > I'm intrigued to learn that the critique of Roy is all about her
> > personality. I thought the Toor essay was an excellent analysis of
> > how she functions as a commodified celebrity, and how the new class
> > created by "neoliberalism" functions within India and in its
> > relations with the outside world (including the Indian diaspora).
>
> Still not a word about the content of any of Roy's writings. Is it that
> you know nothing of India and therefore can't  respond to content?
>
> This is just weird.

Che has been a bigger commodity in both the North and the South for a
much longer time, before and after his death, but few Marxists would
dismiss him and his ideas just because of that.
--
Yoshie