[Reader-list] O Lord, This moralist Hypocrisy of Academia

[Kabir Khan]

O Lord, This moralist Hypocrisy of Academia
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Pardon my ignorance but I want to ask: Who is this sociology professor Vivek
Chibber <http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/vivekchibber.html>, whose
interview is published in The Hindu
<http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/sociologist-vivek-chibber-saysdalit-movement-has-to-see-itself-as-part-of-a-classwide-movement/article8305404.ece?homepage=true>
today? It seems that he knows more about Dalit and other social movements
than the movements know about themselves. His expert opinion is that the
movements and mobilization around identity are not aligning with economic
interests and somewhere are not at all inclusive as they are yet to expand
their horizons to class based mobilization. Sorry to say but it is easy to
state this when you are an academician and based in distant lands.

थोड़े अपने विश्वविद्यालय के माहौल से बाहर आकर देखिये- जहान और भी है। हमारे
कचरा वेचकों से मिलिए वह न केवल अपनी आइडेंटिटी (शनाख्त/पहचान) को लेकर लड़ रहे
हैं बल्कि आर्थिक व समाजिक बदलाव के लिए तत्पर अभ्यास कर रहे हैं।  वामपंथी
अच्छे हैं, आपकी उनपर टिपण्णी सही है पर हमें हर जगह वामपंथियों की सहायता की
आवश्यकता नहीं है।

I want to know why this had to be stated:

*“There is a parallel with the U.S. Black Lives Matter, if you think of it
as a movement, has two layers to it. One is a layer of real organisers in
urban areas, who were incredibly and very concertedly active around issues
of economic justice. Because for them the most pressing issues are not so
much discrimination in the labour market, but not having a job at all; not
so much the exclusion in schools, but not having [access to] schools at
all. These activists are very aware that their concerns as black people
involve fundamental issues of economic justice, not just narrowly racial
justice. *

* Furthermore, these activists are also aware that what has become Black
Lives Matter is as much a name brand and a commodified emblem as it is a
movement. And in the past six months or so, we have seen Black Lives Matter
has not been as visible as it was a year ago, on the streets. This is
partly because many of the most prominent icons of Black Lives Matter are
already moving into the Democratic Party, or into Teach for America, things
like that....*Continued here...
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