[Reader-list] Listening To Grasshoppers [Arundhati Roy]

[Asit asitreds]

reading of shows us that man kind has gone through genocides plunder slavery
and occupations also history shows the the underdogs have allways rebelled
and concessions were extracted from the opressors and ruling classes the
french and bolshevik revolutions are case in point offcourse a better world
is possible if we transcend this ruthless accumelation and coomodified world
thats is transcending cap[italism and market society we have to remove the
objective conditions for exploitation and genocide and that needs a sense of
historical optimism i strogly believe a socialist world is possible
asit

On Jan 30, 2008 9:36 AM, Jeebesh Bagchi <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:

>
> On 30-Jan-08, at 6:10 PM, Nitesh Bhatnagar wrote:
>
> > Armed with this reading of history, is it reasonable to worry about
> > whether a country that is poised on the threshold of "progress" is
> > also poised on the threshold of genocide?
>
> Somewhere last 200 years seems to be showing this link. It will
> worthwhile to think how this works out. We can count numerous
> instance of "out of my way" world views played out with enormous
> violence. How do we think this? By counting instances of such
> occurrences, do we get a better grip on this? or accumulation makes
> us think that this is the only way the worlds are made and thus the
> only way for future world making?
>
> Is there possible other ways of making the world?
>
> warmly
> jeebesh
>
>
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