File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9801, message 152


Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:17:32 -0500
From: james m blaut <70671.2032-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: M-I: "Progress" and Modernity


Yoshie:

You are 99% right!

The other 1% is this "invention of tradition" shit. B. Anderson, E.
Hobsbawm, T. Ranger, and all of those Eurocentric intellectual snobs have
invented this pseudo-concept to allow them to sneer at poor peoples in
srtruggle and say, in essence, "what they think they are fighting for is
just a chimera." And: "their so-called nations are just inventions. Only
Europeans are civilized emnough to create REAL nations."

Indeed: all traditions, ultimately, are inventions. This applies to music,
art, food-preparation styles, etc. All of culture. Is human culture, then,a
chimera?

And of course the pomo irrationalists lap all of this up.

En lucha

Jim Blaut  


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