Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 23:20:30 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: M-I: Vandana Shiva


At 12:21 PM 11/3/96, ty reynaldo r wrote:

>Is jetsetting an exclusive domain of some people?  Weren't Marx, Engels,
>Lenin, etc "jetsetting" in their own way?  Except that the jet was not
>yet in vogue then -- they travelled by train.  I don't see why jetting
>around the world is a vice if that is one way of getting the message
>across.  Wasn't the Sokal NYU event a kind of jetsetting activity as
>well.  Carricatures of jetting around the world while telling the
>villagers to plant lentils at home is unwarranted.  Cannot the Sun
>Peoples of the South jetset the way the Ice Peoples of the North do?
>Does this not wreak of Racism and Xenophobia?  Let's stick to the issue:
>the virtues of Marxist thought, Post-Modernist thought, and the ideas of
>Vandana Shiva.  Let us NOT avoid the issue and get OUT of focus in the
>discussion.

Jetsetting for all, that's my platform comrade. What I object to is
celebrities like Shiva, and all her cronies in the International Forum on
Globalization, traveling all over the goddamn place flacking for their
localist tomfoolery. Additionally, Shiva's line, which treats science as a
western male intrusion, has given great aid and comfort to Hindu fascists
in India.

Shiva's main following is in the West. At an anti-World Bank meeting a few
years ago, one of the participants remarked that there was no one from
India present. All eyes turned to Shiva, and the speaker corrected herself
saying, "Well, you know, you're not really representative of Indians,
Vandana." Much laughter around the room.


Doug

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