[Reader-list] Re: ambedkar:icon:pros and cons

[Rob van Kranenburg]

"secondly, what constitutes successful politics, prashant? is 
economic/political power the only thing? why is 'cultural political 
power' considered phony? by what yardsticks are we measuring the 
usefulness or hazards of dalit politics? and why are we assuming that 
these are the yardsticks of the dalit movement as well?!?!'

when antonio gramsci was in prison he wrote to his mother to tell him 
what saints the peasants were carrying in their procession, that 
would tell him about their level of optimism for the year. in fact 
his sole idea that he worked on during his life is: you got to have 
cultural power before you can have political power. unfortunately in 
the west where the left does nothing but talk and look at itself in 
the mirror it is the extreme right that has understood, claimed and 
graseped this effectively thus handing over a politics of sentiment, 
feeling to the enemy. more:
http://www.italnet.nd.edu/gramsci/igsn/articles/a09_5.shtml

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