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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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