From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: India 4. What does content of l*st postings prove?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:28:32 -0500 (CDT)


    I doubt that the content of this mail l*st offers much evidence one
way or another of the interest of U.S. marxists in India, or any other
topic. I have posted pretty regularly, but the totality of my postings
would be a very poor index to the content of my political/economic
library or reading or interests. I know less about Haiti, in detail,
then I know about India: but I would be more willing to jump into
a thread on Haiti than on India because I would guess to begin with
that my knowledge, in comparison with other l*st members, was more
adequate on Haiti than on India. But we do have Rahul and Rakesh. If
a thread on India started, I would regard it as something to learn
from, not wade into to show my own relative ignorance. My guess is
that this would be true of a lot of list members.

    The suggestion that Marxists would be "prejudiced" against India
because it did not make a revolution has to be bullshit. The only
nation I am "prejudiced" against for that reason is my *own* nation.


Romi writes:

>
> I have a simple question for all of you Marxists:
>
> Why is it that so few of you have any interest in India or knowledge about
> it?  India is home to 1/6 of all of humanity and 1/5 if one includes
> Pakistan and Bangladesh. It doesn't seem at all tolerable that so little
> interest is placed on the world's second most populous and certainly most
> "in flux" country in the world.
>
> It is really important for me to get honest answers to this question, one
> that has puzzled me for years and one that puzzles all Indians who actually
> aren't under the delusion that any gives a shit for their country.
>
> Could it be that any one of the many facets of India is not fashionable:
> the racial composition of its people, its lack of involvement with the US,
> and its desire to chart out a course for the Third World (not nowadays,
> mind you, but in the late forties and early fifties, just after
> Independence.)
>
> How many of you list Jawaharlal Nehru as an important figure in recent history
?
>
> Please do tell.
>
> Romi Mhajan
>
>
>
>
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